Short Bio of Jean-Robert Tyran
Jean-Robert Tyran is professor of public economics at the University of Vienna (currently on leave) and director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics. He has served on various editorial boards (Experimental Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the Economic Science Association, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Judgment and Decision Making), and professional Boards (Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, German Economic Association). He is a research fellow at various institutions (CEPR, London; EPRU, U Copenhagen) and has held numerous visiting positions (Harvard Kennedy School, London School of Economics, Caltech, among others). He is also part-time Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen. Before moving to U Vienna in September 2010, he was at U Copenhagen since 2004, and at U St. Gallen since 1997. He has earned his PhD in economics at the U of Zurich finishing in 1997.
In his research, Jean-Robert Tyran mainly investigates how institutions like markets and democracy are shaped by bounded rationality and social preferences. He established an internet-based platform for running large-scale economic experiments (iLEE), (watch this video to see how he explains the uses of experimental economics and iLEE in particular to the Queen of Denmark).
Jean-Robert Tyran has published more than 50 papers in refereed journals, including field journals such as Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and Games and Economic Behavior as well as in general interest journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association and Science. His current third-party funded research projects are listed here.
According to repec, he is one of the top economists in Austria (click on Authors)
Watch this video of a keynote lecture Jean-Robert Tyran gave on behavioral and experimental public choice at the CEU in Budapest in 2017.
As the Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics (2016-18) Tyran organized various events with top academics to discuss ideas from Behavioral and Experimental Economics with people from the business world, society and state (see here for videos). He has served as Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs at the University of Vienna 02/2018 - 09/2022.
Academic Degrees
03/2004: PD (U St. Gallen), Habilitation in Economics
04/1997: Dr. oec. publ. (U Zurich), summa cum laude
07/1994: lic. oec. publ. (U Zurich), summa cum laude
Professional Positions
09/2010 - Professor of Economics, University of Vienna
07/2005 - Professor Economics, University of Copenhagen (until 08/2010 full time, from 09/2010 part-time)
04/2004 - 06/2005 Associate Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen
10/1997 - 03/2004 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of St. Gallen
Appointments
02/2018 - 09/2022 Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs, University of Vienna
10/2016 - 01/2018 Dean, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna
10/2014 - 09/2016 Vicedean of Research, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna
01/2011 - Director, Vienna Center for Experimental Economics (VCEE, University of Vienna)
06/2007 - Director, iLEE (internet Laboratory for Experimental Economics, U Copenhagen)
01/2008 - 08/2014 Director, CEE (Center for Experimental Economics, U Copenhagen)
07/2010 - 08/2015 Associate editor of the Journal Judgment and Decision Making
12/2012 - 12/2016 Associate editor of the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
09/2009 - Editorial Board of the Journal Experimental Economics
06/2013 - 08/2017 Editorial Board of the Journal of Experimental Political Science
07/2005 - Editorial Board of the European Journal of Political Economy
09/2014 - Editorial Board of the Journal of the Economic Science Association
05/2009 - 06/2012 Executive Committee of the Economic Science Association (ESA)
08/2008 - 12/2020 Board of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE)
12/2007 - 12/2016 Research Associate, CAMA (Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University)
05/2012 - 12/2013 Member, iv.future.lab (Vienna)
10/2011 - 08/2017 Affiliated Researcher, Choice Lab (NHH Bergen)
03/2006 - Research Fellow, EPRU (Economic Policy Research Unit, Copenhagen)
10/2022 - Senior scientist, EUBA (University of Economics, Bratislava)
01/2006 - 09/2014 Associate Member, FRU (Finance Research Unit, Copenhagen)
09/2005 - Research Fellow, CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research, London)
09/2004 I was awarded the Prix Latsis Universitaire for my work on Behavioral Economics and Institutions (my speech)
Visiting and teaching positions
France: Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (LEEP); Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (BETA); Université de Rennes 1, Université Lyon II, (GATE)
Germany: Konstanz, WZB Berlin (Short-term), CES (LMU Munich)
Netherlands: University of Amsterdam (CREED)
Sweden: Stockholm School of Economics
UK: London School of Economics
USA: Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, NYU New York, Caltech
other: Prague University of Business and Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi, U Belgrade