BRUNO S. FREY

 

Born on May 4, 1941 (in Basel, Switzerland)
Citizenship: Swiss

Education:

1964: Lic. rerum politicarum (Master in Economics), University of Basel
1965: Doctor rerum politicarum (Ph.D. in Economics)
1969: Habilitation

 

 

Current Occupations:

Since 2011: Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Science,
Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, UK
Since 2012: Guest Professor, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, DE

Previous Occupations:

1977-2012: Full Professor of Economics, University of Zurich
1969-2006: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Basel

Important Stays Abroad:

Nov. 2003 and Mar. 2004: Distinguished Visitor, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics
Nov. - Dec. 2002: First Jelle Zijlstra Professorial Fellow, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands
1990: Visiting Research Professor of Business Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
1984/85: Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Studies)
1983: Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University

Major Awards:

Honorary Doctorate of Economics, University of Aix-en-Provence/Marseille (France), 2010
Honorary Doctorate of Economics, Free University of Brussels (Belgium), 2009
Honorary Doctorate of Economics, University of Göteborg (Sweden), 1998
Honorary Doctorate of Economics, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), 1998

Activities and Memberships:

Since 2012: Member of the International Expert Working Group on Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm by appointment of the King of Bhutan
Since 2011: Member of the Board of Contemporary Economics
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management and Sustainability, Toronto
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
Member of the European School of Management and Technology Academic Board (ESMT), Berlin
Member of the Editorial Board of Academy of Management Perspectives
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD)
Since 2010: Consulting Editor for the International Journal of Wellbeing
Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Applied Statistics and Economics (CASE)
Visiting Fellow at the Center for Analysis of Risk at Doshisha University
Since 2009: Member of the Advisory Board, Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health, Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
Member of the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Studies in Economics,Cognition, and Society (CSECS)
Member of the Editorial Board of International Review of Economics
Since 2007: Member of the Governing Board of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Since 1969: Managing Editor of Kyklos
 
in addition, a great number of Memberships on diverse Editorial Boards;
see Professor Frey's Homepage for a more comprehensive list.

Special Publications:

Review of a paper in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 06.07.2008: Katja Rost, Emil Inauen, Margit Osterloh, Bruno S. Frey: The Corporate Covernance of Benedictine Abbeys: What can Stock Corporations Learn from Monasteries?, Universität Zürich, Juni 2008

A Comment to William Starbuck in Scandinavian Journal of Management, 25.01.2009: Margit Osterloh and Bruno S. Frey: Are more and better indicators the solution?

A comment on Posner in: Journal of Institutional Economics: Bruno S. Frey: Superb Posner – but can we go further?