Sandro Ambuehl

Biography

Sandro Ambuehl is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough, with a cross-appointment to the Business Economics area at the Rotman School of Management. One of his interests concerns designing policies for the exchange of goods about which people have strong ethical intuitions, for example, with living organ donation or when incentive systems place a price on the natural environment. In another line of research, he studies what policies help people make good financial decisions. He addresses these questions using a combination of controlled experiments and economic theory. His research has been featured in the popular press, including the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Sandro Ambuehl is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough, with a cross-appointment to the Business Economics area at the Rotman School of Management. One of his interests concerns designing policies for the exchange of goods about which people have strong ethical intuitions, for example, with living organ donation or when incentive systems place a price on the natural environment. In another line of research, he studies what policies help people make good financial decisions. He addresses these questions using a combination of controlled experiments and economic theory. His research has been featured in the popular press, including the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Research Interest

Experimental and behavioral economics, market design