About me
Hello! I am an Associate Professor of Behavioral Decision Making in the Centre for Decision Research at the University of Leeds Business School. Previously, I was a Career Development Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, affiliated with the Finance, Accounting, Management Science, and Economics (FAME) group. I received my Ph.D. in Economics and Psychology from the University of Warwick in 2019.
I work in the fields of behavioral finance and economics. The distinctiveness of my research is the use of field data to better understand individual decision making, providing evidence to inform both theory and policy. Currently, my research emphasizes the use of big data to study saving, borrowing, and spending decisions, as well as investor trading behaviour. Secondary areas of research include the role played by social interactions in explaining improper behavior (“misconduct”), the study of mathematical models of decision making under risk, and the study of subjective wellbeing and its economic determinants.
In my research, I mostly use panel data econometrics, parametric and non-parametric methods, and machine learning algorithms. Email me for a copy of the latest versions of my working papers.
You can learn more about my work by checking out my Google Scholar profile.
Research Updates
Recently Accepted Papers
At the Top of the Mind: Peak Prices and the Disposition Effect ()
(with Hume, D., Gathergood, J., Loewenstein, G., and Stewart, N.)
Forthcoming at Journal of Political Economy MicroeconomicsAttention Utility: Evidence from Individual Investors ()
(with Gathergood, J., Loewenstein, G., and Stewart, N.)
Forthcoming at The Review of Economic Studies
Research Highlights
My paper on “Causal Peer Effects in Police Misconduct” has been featured as one of the favourite papers in the 5th-anniversary edition of Nature Human Behaviour.
Contact
You can contact me by email at E.Quispe-Torreblanca@leeds.ac.uk / Edika.Quispe-Torreblanca@wbs.ac.uk / Edika.Quispe.Torreblanca@gmail.com