New Guest Professor at The Department of Economics
Ingela Alger from Toulouse School of Economics is a new guest professor at the Department of Economics. “The department is strong in several fields of economics that I find particularly important.”
Ingela Alger is a CNRS Senior Researcher in Economics at Toulouse School of Economics, the current Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) as well as the Chair of the Department in Social and Behavioral Sciences, and a CEPR Research Fellow. She visited the Department of Economics in April and plans to visit again in September or October.
"The Department of Economics at GU is strong in several fields of Economics that I find particularly important and interesting, namely, Behavioral, Development, and Environmental economics."
Her research focuses on the evolutionary foundations of human preferences, when these are transmitted from generation to generation and are subject to selection. She is particularly interested in the evolutionary foundations of morality and distributional preferences.
"As a guest professor, I will be looking forward to engaging in conversations with faculty and PhD students. I have a diverse research portfolio, including theoretical research on the evolutionary foundations of preferences, on the role that Kantian moral concerns may play for individual behavior, such as voting, and on the long-term evolution of societies; I am also involved in research using experimental methods. I hope that many Department members will stop by to chat when I am around!"
Ingela Alger started her PhD in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics but transferred to Toulouse to complete her PhD.
"I had become aware of the fascinating insights one could obtain by studying the effects of information problems, and Toulouse has a world-leading research group in this field."
Do you have any connection to Gothenburg and the University of Gothenburg?
"I have visited GU a couple of times before, and I had started a collaboration with Professor Ola Olsson a couple of years ago. I also have strong personal ties to Gothenburg: I was born here and I still have family here, including my mother and a brother. And a visit to beautiful Bohuslän each summer is a must!