Fernando Peinado

Welcome to my website!

I am a Lecturer of Economics at CUNEF Universidad, PhD in Economics and Business from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), and I am interested in the economic analysis of law, behavioral economics, and environmental economics.

This website provides information about my research interests, my CV, and some ongoing projects.  Please contact me if you need any additional information. Thanks for your interest!

Latest news!

I will deliver a seminar at CUNEF Universidad about Emotions, Algorithms, and Electoral Error: A Formal Model of Digital Disinformation in Political Communication Environments (co-authored with Roberto Morales-Arsenal) on September 18th, 2025.  🎉

About my research

As an applied microeconomist interested in law enforcement from a multilevel approach, my research mainly focuses on firms’ behavior under environmental regulations, law enforcement principles, and preferences on law enforcement. In my research, I apply economic and behavioral analysis to enforcement and environmental issues. 

I work on conceptual and computational analysis of firms' compliance and investment behavior under risk aversion and technological uncertainty. My work also covers the economic analysis of the main elements of criminal law using Cumulative Prospect Theory and Expected Utility Theory. Lastly, I empirically seek to establish sentencing guidelines rooted in society’s perception of proportionality, as most institutions across the world’s democracies are currently being challenged by a growing number of discontents, and as the increasing use of AI/algorithms in the courtroom calls for a systematic but well-grounded approach to sentencing.