Pedro Rey Biel

Pedro Rey Biel is Associate Professor of Behavioral Economics at ESADE, Ramon Llull University (Barcelona, Spain). He obtained his Master Degree in Economics and Finance from CEMFI (Bank of Spain) and a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London (United Kingdom). Before joining ESADE in April 2018, he was a tenured faculty member at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Since 2008 he has held a visiting position at the Rady School of Management at University of California San Diego (UCSD), where he has taught MBA courses on Managerial Economics and on Strategy. Pedro has also been the lead behavioral scientist behind All of Us, the United States Precision Medicine Initiative started by President Obama.

Pedro's research combines theoretical and empirical methodologies, as well as laboratory and field experiments to understand economic decision making and how it is affected by the design of proper incentive schemes which take into account the complex array of behavioral traits behind human motivation. He has published articles in leading academic journals in economics such as The Journal of European economic Association, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Economic Journal, and The Journal of Public Economics and in the leading field journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Experimental Economics. His work has also appeared regularly in popular outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, or The Financial Times. He is also one of the editors of the most popular blog about Economics in Spain (www.nadaesgratis.es). He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, NPJ Digital Medicine (Nature) and Journal of Socio-Economics.

Pedro also collaborates with public and private institutions in the applications of behavioral economics to optimal organizational design and has conducted large RCTs for several leading companies.

Areas of interest

• Behavioral Economics
• Experimental Economics
• Public Policy
• Health Economics

Companies

• Associate Professor ESADE Business & Law School (2018)
• Associate Research Professor Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (2015 — 2018)
• Associate Professor Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2010 — 2018)
• Behavioral Scientist The Scripps Research Institute (2017 — 2017)
• Assistant Professor Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2005 — 2010)

Education

• PhD in Economics UCL (2000 — 2005)
• MSc in Economics and Finance CEMFI (1998 — 2000)
• Licenciatura Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1994 — 1998)