Associate Professor of Behavioral Decision Making at the University of Leeds Business School

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.

My research lies in behavioral household finance and economics, with a primary focus on how individuals save, borrow, spend, and invest. A central theme across my work is how people allocate attention and acquire or ignore information when making financial decisions, and how these processes shape outcomes in household finance. I use large-scale field data and randomized experiments to generate evidence that informs both theory and policy.

This perspective also informs my work on digital payments and consumer protection in fintech, where I examine how interface design and choice architecture shape decision-making and vulnerability to fraud. Secondary areas of my research include social interactions and misconduct, mathematical models of decision making under risk, and subjective wellbeing and its economic determinants.

Methodologically, my work combines panel-data econometrics, parametric and non-parametric methods, and machine-learning techniques.

You can learn more about my work by checking out my Google Scholar profile. Email me for a copy of the latest versions of my working papers.

Research Updates

Recently Accepted Papers

  1. 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 Microeconomics

  2. Attention 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