Placement Rei Sayag at Pompeu Fabra University
PhD student Rei Sayag on his new position as postdoctoral researcher at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain.
Rei is an alumnus of the TI MPhil program (2010) and a PhD candidate in economics at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Rei’s main research interests include organizational economics, experimental economics, behavioral economics and political economy. Rei will defend his PhD thesis entitled ‘Essays on The Role of Information in Decision Making’ in the second half of 2014. His supervisor is TI general director and fellow professor Bauke Visser.
In 2013, Rei won the best paper award by the Unicredit and Universities Foundation for ‘Paying is Believing: The Effect of Costly Information on Bayesian Updating’, presented at the 2013 IZA workshop on Behavioral Organizational Economics in Bonn, Germany.