Brandts, Jordi

Jordi Brandts uses laboratory and on-line experiments to study issues related to cooperation, organizational economics, industrial organizational and market analysis, gender differences in behavior and conflict. In his most recent research, his focus is on the effect of communication on dispelling misconceptions about the workings of the economy, on the impact of economists’ views in the public debate and on behavior in financial markets. He is also involved in studying how gender and origin affect status in the Spanish society.  

Jordi Brandts was born in Barcelona. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Research Professor ad honorem of the Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC) and of the BSE. He is also a Research Fellow of CESifo and a member of BELIS (Bilgi University, Istanbul). From 2008 to 2013 he held the Serra-Ramoneda/Catalunya Caixa Chair at the Department of Business of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. From 2007 to 2011 he was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Experimental Economics. From 2016 to 2021 he was Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance Since 2013 he serves as Advisory Editor for Games and Economic Behavior and since 2016 of the Review of Economic Design. From 2016 to 2020 he was European vice-president of the Economic Science Association and since 2021 he is on the Advisory Board of the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).