Short Bio of Jean-Robert Tyran

Jean-Robert Tyran is professor of public economics and director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics at the University of Vienna.

He has served as vice Dean for research, and as Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics (2014-18). He has been the Vice Rector of Research and International Affairs of the University of Vienna (2018-22).
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), 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, Caltech, London School of Economics, among others). He is also part-time Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen.

Before moving to Vienna in September 2010, he was first associate, then full professor 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. A major project funded by the Carlsberg Foundation was to establish an internet-based platform for running large-scale economic experiments (iLEE).

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.