Welcome to John Hey's Home Page


I am part-time Professor of Economics and Statistics at the  University of York in the UK and Professore Ordinario at LUISS in Italy. I was Editor of the Economic Journal from 1986 to 1996. My main research interests are in the economics of decision making under risk and uncertainty (both static and dynamic) and in Experimental Economics. With regard to the latter I was the co-founder (wuth Graham Loomes) of EXEC (Centre for Experimental Economics) at the University of York. At LUISS we have just established CESARE (Centro di Economia Sperimentale A Roma Est) with the generous support of Deloitte. From 2001 to 2004 I was European Vice-President of the Economic Science Association (the association of experimental economists) - which is a great honour to me and to the Universities with which I have been associated. I am a Fellow of the European Economic Association. In 2006 I organised (with Daniela Di Cagno and others from LUISS) the Twelth FUR Conference at LUISS. In 2007 we organised the ESA World Meeting 2007 at LUISS in Rome. In 2008 we organised IAREP 2008.


In 2004 to 2006 I was on research leave from the University of York - having been awarded by the ESRC a 28 month Research Fellowship. This project has its own Home Page. For the academic year 2006/2007 I was again on Research Leave from the University of York, financed by a grant on pensions with the Department for Work and Pensions of the UK Government. This project is now completed and the report is available. I have also been coordinator of a MIUR-financed research project on dynamic decision making, which has a partial website. I am now the coordinator of a further MIUR-financed research project on decision making under ambiguity, which will soon have a website. I am now even more part-time at York but will be teaching Graduate Experimental Economics and Undergraduate Experimental Economics this academic year. At LUISS I teach Microeconomics . I use my text Intermediate Microeconomics, a description of which can be found here, which is published in English by McGraw-Hill and is published in Italian by Aracne. You might find interesting a page highlighting the problems of working within the Italian Examination system.


My recent  papers are downloadable. If you have any trouble downloading the papers from this, you should go instead to the  Departmental Discussion Papers Page. Let me know if you have any problems. My  cv  is downloadable. Please note the University of York's legal disclaimer.