Research in Behavioral Economics and Risk Analysis (BERA) unites local and international researchers who aim at empirically investigating economic behavior, be it at the individual or at the aggregate level, with an eye to the modern theoretical literature in Economics and Decision Theory. The research area BERA aspires at publishing empirical and theoretical research articles in internationally recognized journals in Economics and Management Sciences. In addition to understanding the determinants of economic behavior in general settings, BERA also aims at investigating economic behavior under uncertainty and over time in developing countries with the objective to provide policy and decision makers with tools that help building consistent courses of action. Specifically, it focuses on four main activities:
