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; CESifo, Munich; 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)

Jean-Robert Tyran has served as Vice-Dean (2014-16) and Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics (2016-18), and 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 Paris II, Panthéon-Assas (LEMMA); Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (BETA); Université de Rennes 1, Université Lyon II, (GATE), SciencesPo (Axpo)

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 (HSS)

other: CEU (IAS Budapest), Einaudi Institute Rome (EIEF), Keio U Tokyo (Economics), NYU Abu Dhabi, U Economics in Bratislava (EUBA), Prague University of Business and Economics (VSE), U Belgrade