German Loewe

Biography

German Loewe started his collaboration with the Managerial Decision Sciences department at IESE in 2009, and is now Lecturer of Decision Analysis in the MBA program. Before 2009 he held Associate Professor positions at both University of Barcelona and University Pompeu Fabra, where he taught mathematics, decision theory and strategy for several years. During 2000 he was visiting researcher at the Economic Learning and Social Evolution Centre (ELSE) at University College London and holds a PhD in Mathematical Economics from University of Barcelona.  Early in his career he decided to focus his research on the economic theory for individual decision making, and on the both mathematical and philosophical foundations of decision theories. His main research area is intertemporal choice. He has worked for several years together with experimental psychologist and field specialist Daniel Read in experiments aimed at further exploring known anomalies in rational intertemporal decision making. German is also founder and CEO of Netquest, a company providing online sampling technologies and services for the market research industry in Spain and Latin America. With respondent panels in 23 countries, this company specializes in providing representative samples of the Spanish and Latin American population for market researchers all over the world. He is a member of ESOMAR, the world's association of market research professionals.

Research Interest

Areas of Interest * Intertemporal choice * Decision under uncertainty * Experimental Psychology * Foundations of Utility theory * Market Research