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Alejandro Hirmas

Candidate Fellow

University
University of Amsterdam
Research field
Behavioral Economics
Interests
Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Gender Economics

Biography

Alejandro is a Postdoctoral researcher at Universiteit van Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, 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.

List of publications

Hirmas, A., Engelmann, J. and van der Weele, J.J. (2024). Individual and Contextual Effects of Attention in Risky Choice Experimental Economics, :.

Hirmas, A. and Engelmann, J. (2023). Impulsiveness moderates the effects of exogenous attention on the sensitivity to gains and losses in risky lotteries Journal of Economic Psychology, 95:.