Dr. Horst Zank

Biography

Professor of Microeconomics in the Department of Economics at the University of Manchester since December 2008. He has held various academic positions including Visiting Professor of Behavioral Economics at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, from June 2010 to May 2011, and has been involved in numerous roles at the University of Manchester since 1999. His academic background includes a PhD in Economics from the Department of Quantitative Economics at Maastricht University in the Netherlands (1995-1999) and a study in Mathematics at the University of Technology Aachen in Germany (1988-1994). Zank's research interests center around Decision Theory, Choice Risk Uncertainty/Ambiguity, Time Preferences Discounting, and Experimental Behavioral Economics. His work is deeply interdisciplinary, combining classical economic theory with empirical and experimental evidence, aiming to equip students with the necessary theoretical and quantitative skills essential for progressing in the field of economics. He actively supervises students with an interest in risk and uncertainty decision-making, and has supervised several PhD and master’s students, contributing to both academic and practical applications of economic theories.

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