New Candidate Fellow: Alejandro Hirmas
Alejandro Hirmas is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, currently positioned at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED).
Alejandro is a behavioral economist studying the processes underlying economic decision-making.
His research focuses on the role of visual attention in economic decision for which he developed a statistical model to disentangle the different factors which influence attention and decisions.
To understand the role of attention and test the robustness of the effects, Alejandro studies economic decisions across different domains, including risk and loss aversion, and topics in line with the UN sustainable development goals, e.g., sustainable consumption and discrimination in hiring decisions.
Alejandro obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute.