Carlos Alós-Ferrer (born November 22, 1970, in

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, Spain) is a neuroeconomist, decision theorist, and game theorist, a full professor of economics at

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(U.K.), and the current editor in chief of the '' Journal of Economic Psychology''. He is also a regular contributor to

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, where he writes abou
Decisions and the Brain
He holds a M.Sc. in mathematics from the

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(Spain, 1992) and a Ph.D. in economics from the

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(Spain, 1998). He has been assistant professor at the

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(Austria, 1997–2002), associate professor at the

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(Spain, 2002–2004), and associate professor at the University of Vienna (2004–2005). He became a full professor of microeconomics at the

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(Germany, 2005) and later moved to the

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(Germany, 2012). From 2018 to 2024, he was professor of decision and neuroeconomic theory at the

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(endowed by the NOMIS foundation). In 2024, he moved to Lancaster University Management School as Chair in Economics. Alós-Ferrer has worked extensively in

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...

bounded rationality Bounded rationality is the idea that rationality is limited when individuals make decisions, and under these limitations, rational individuals will select a decision that is satisfactory rather than optimal. Limitations include the difficulty of ...

social choice Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a ''collective decision'' or ''social welfare'' in some sense.Amartya Sen (2008). "Soci ...

, and

behavioral economics Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors on the decisions of individuals or institutions, such as how those decisions vary from those implied by classical economic theory. ...

. From 2012 to 2018, he was speaker of the interdisciplinary research unit "Psychoeconomics," which used methods from psychology, economics, and neuroscience to study human decision making, and was funded by the

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(DFG). Since January 2019, he is the editor in chief of the '' Journal of Economic Psychology''. His research interests are

neuroeconomics Neuroeconomics is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to explain human decision-making, the ability to process multiple alternatives and to follow through on a plan of action. It studies how economic behavior can shape our understanding of the ...

decision theory Decision theory (or the theory of choice; not to be confused with choice theory) is a branch of applied probability theory concerned with the theory of making decisions based on assigning probabilities to various factors and assigning numerical ...

, and evolution and learning in games and markets.

Selected publications

* Alós-Ferrer, Carlos, Jaume García-Segarra, and Alexander Ritschel (2022). ''Generous with Individuals and Selfish to the Masses'', Nature Human Behaviour, 6, pp. 88-96. . *Alós-Ferrer, Carlos, Ernst Fehr, and Nick Netzer (2021). ''Time Will Tell: Recovering Preferences when Choices are Noisy'', Journal of Political Economy, 29 (6), pp. 1828-1877. *Alós-Ferrer, Carlos (2018). ''A Review Essay on Social Neuroscience: Can Research on the Social Brain and Economics Inform Each Other?'', Journal of Economic Literature, 56 (1), pp. 234–264. * Alós-Ferrer, Carlos and Klaus Ritzberger (2016). ''The Theory of Extensive Form Games''. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. . * Achtziger, Anja and Carlos Alós-Ferrer (2014). ''Fast or Rational? A Response-Times Study of Bayesian Updating'', Management Science, 60 (4), pp. 923–938. * Achtziger, Anja, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Sabine Hügelschäfer, and Marco Steinhauser (2014). ''The Neural Basis of Belief Updating and Rational Decision Making'', Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9 (1), pp. 55–62. * Alós-Ferrer, Carlos and Nick Netzer (2010). ''The Logit-Response Dynamics'', Games and Economic Behavior, 68 (2), pp. 413–427.

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Professional webpage
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