Sandro Ambuehl

Welcome! I am the UBS Foundation Assistant Professor of Behavioral Economics of Financial Markets at the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich.  One part of my research focuses on the question of how to help people make good financial decisions. My other strand of research concerns policies for the exchange of goods about which people have strong ethical intuitions, as is the case, for example, with living organ donation or medical trial participation. I address these questions using a combination of controlled experiments and economic theory. In 2022, I received a Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to support my research on positive welfare economics. My research has been featured in the popular press, including the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Freakonomics Radio, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.