Receives ERC funding for the second time
NHH Professor Bertil Tungodden has been awarded NOK 22 million from the ERC to investigate a fundamental question in economics: When are markets morally legitimate?
Professor Bertil Tungodden
- Bertil.Tungodden@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 92 61
- Department
- Economics
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- FAIR
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- Expertise
- Behavioural economics Development Economics Experimental Economics Political Philosophy Social choice theory
BIOGRAPHY
Bertil Tungodden is Professor of Economics at NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Scientific Director of FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality), and Co-Director of The Choice Lab. He is also a Mercator Fellow at Humboldt University and the University of Munich within the CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
Bertil currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics and Social Choice and Welfare. He is a member of the Strategy Committee of the European Economic Association, an Ambassador of the European Research Council (ERC), and a member of the Board of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
His research spans behavioral and experimental economics, development economics, distributive justice, and social choice theory. He is the recipient of two ERC Advanced Grants: Fairness and the Moral Mind (2017–2025) and Fair Markets (2027–2032).
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Tungodden, Bertil | Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians? | Journal of Political Economy; 2020 |
| Cappelen, Alexander Wright; List, John; Samek, Anya; Tungodden, Bertil | The effect of early-childhood education on social preferences | Journal of Political Economy (24 pages); 2019 |
| Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Konow, James; Sørensen, Erik Øiolf; Tungodden, Bertil | Just Luck: An Experimental Study of Risk-Taking and Fairness | The American Economic Review Volume 103 (4); page 1398 - 1413; 2013 |
| Cappelen, Alexander W.; Hole, Astri Drange; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil | The pluralism of fairness ideals: An experimental approach | The American Economic Review Volume 97 (3); page 818 - 827; 2007 |
TEACHING AREASEconomics and Psychology |
Dissemination
Recognising this spring’s top publications
This week, NHH researchers will receive publication bonuses for scientific articles published in selected journals on NHH’s and the Financial Times’ publication lists.
Tungodden awarded notable Fellowship
Professor Bertil Tungodden has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, placing him among a select group of internationally recognised economists, including Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton.
Europe's innovation at risk without stronger support
`Europe must continue to invest in bold, independent research — the ERC is key to that mission,´ says NHH Professor Bertil Tungodden.
Tungodden Appointed ERC Ambassador
Professor Bertil Tungodden has been selected as Norway’s representative in the new ERC Ambassador Network.
Arrow Lecture at SSCW 2024
Bertil Tungodden gave the Arrow Lecture at the 17th meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare. The SSCW 2024 took place in Paris from July 3 to 6. The other keynote speakers included Elizabeth Maggie Penn and Thomas Piketty.
FAIR paper published in American Economic Review
A new NHH study, "Second-Best Fairness: The Trade-off between False Positives and False Negatives", is published in the September issue of American Economic Review.
A star player in his academic field
Professor Bertil Tungodden at the Department of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) turns 60 on Thursday 4 May. He is a giant in international research, deeply committed to his subject, with a unique ability to infect others with his enthusiasm.
Tungodden in Nature Human Behaviour
Five years after the launch of Nature Human Behaviour, twenty-two leading experts in some of the core disciplines within the journal’s scope share their views on pressing open questions and new directions in their disciplines.
Solidarity and predictability are essential in times of crisis
New guarantees are needed to enable us to carry the financial costs of the pandemic together, write Bertil Tungodden and Alexander W Cappelen.
Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study
New working paper by Thomas Buser (University of Amsterdam), Alexander Cappelen, Uri Gneezy (Rady School of Management, UCSD), Moshe Hoffman (MIT and Harvard) and Bertil Tungodden, titled "Competitiveness, gender and handedness: a large-sample intercultural study".
New FAIR Projects funded by the Research Council of Norway
FAIR is involved in three projects that have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.