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I am a professor of experimental and behavioural economics in the UNSW Business School at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; you can find my UNSW website here; until summer 2009 I was professor and senior researcher at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. I remain affiliated with the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences as a visiting senior researcher. You can find my old CERGE-EI website here; please note that it has not been updated since summer 2009.

Prior to my stint in Prague, I taught at Bowdoin and Colby College, Maine, USA. I also was, for a year each, a visiting scholar of the Program on Non-Profit Organizations at Yale University, the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and the Harvard Business School. 

In case you wonder what I do: I teach (under)graduate courses on a variety of topics. Apparently I do it reasonably well. I also write articles for a living. My work has been published in journals such as American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, Management Science, The Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation,  Energy Economics, Ethics & Behavior, Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Psychological Methods, Journal of Economic Theory, International Journal of Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Journal of Economic Psychology, and many others. My interests are wide-ranging and include game theory, corporate finance, experimental economics, behavioural economics, the experimental methods in the social sciences, and the history of economic thought (specifically the Adam and smith of modern economics). Together with Benoît Walraevens, I just published this book on Adam Smith. My review of a review of our book can be found here.

Occasionally I blog at Core Economics Today and I write for The Conversation.

I recently started blogging at my own medium page. Make sure to visit it.

You can find my CV here.

My scholar Google stats can be accessed here.

Google Scholar h-index (as of 5 December, 2023): 40 (since 2018: 26)                                                                                                                                    

A Wikipedia page about me can be accessed here.

As of October 2022, my Kardashian index is less than 0.1 which happens to be very good news.

My m-index is well above 1 for academic lifetime, currently > 15,000 citations.

Words of praise … and, well, condemnation:

"Marxist wackademic" (James Morrow, Daily Terror Opinion Editor on Facebook).

“A nasty leftist” (someone who shall remain unnamed on Facebook’s Polite Political Tragics private group).

“Your FB friendship is, for me, a window into the worldview of, well, the left intelligentsia.” (Rhett Talley on Facebook).

“A great guy. A decent scholar. Finance is not his strongest virtue.” (David Navarrete on Facebook).

“You’re a flickering light in a sea of shit. (That’s a compliment.)” (David Brandt, on Facebook, thankfully clarifying a remark he made).

“An economic theorist, experimentalist, and intellectual historian par excellence in all." (Nobel Prize laureate, Vernon L. Smith, in the acknowledgements to his A Life in Experimental Economics).

“He is very patient and knowledgable, and I like him a lot. He can explain the concepts in a very good way and gives us good examples.” (Anonymous student teaching evaluation).

“Professor Andreas led us through interesting microeconomics, and I think he ignited my passion for economics.” (Anonymous student teaching evaluation).

“Professor O. is handsome !!! And always with smile!” (Anonymous student teaching evaluation, focusing on what really matters).