I am a behavioral scientist with an Economics background and tons of academic curiosity. In 2023 I joined the Universidad Europea de Valencia (Spain) as a Professor of Behavioral Economics and as director of the Behavioral Economics Institute. 

In the last five years I have worked for international organizations like The World Bank, USAID, the United Nations and several government agencies in the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies inspired by behavioral science. You can see some examples of my field work in the Field Work tab in this website. In the field, I am interested in understanding the behavioral roots of exclusion and discrimination, the long term consequences of violence exposure, and the prevalence and intensity of behavioral bottlenecks preventing policies to succeed. I have designed and evaluated interventions or diagnostic tools in Peru, Spain, Colombia, Pakistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ecuador or India; more information about this work will be available here soon.

As a behavioral economist, I have studied Globalization and cooperation (published at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, with Nancy R. Buchan, Gianluca Grimalda, Rick Wilson, Marilynn Brewer, and Margaret Foddy); how help and commitment take teams out of coordination traps (published at Management Science, with David J Cooper and Jordi Brandts); and the role played by trust in governments and science in explaining compliance with public health guidelines during the pandemic (published in PLoS ONE with Cristina Bicchieri and others). Together with David J Cooper, Antonio J Morales and Shi Qi, I developed in "Consistent depth-of-reasoning in level-k models" (American Economic Journal-Micro) an ambiguity aversion model to study the consistency of level-k models, and together with Catherine C Eckel, Jordi Brandts and Shaun Hargreaves-Heap, we causally link political institutions and social bellicosity and performance in "The Democratic Peace. An experimental test of a causal relation and of underlying mechanisms" (R&R at The Economic Journal). 

You may have a look at my profiles at Google Scholar, ORCID, Mendely or Scopus. You may reach me at enrique.fatas“at”universidadeuropea.es