Emil Persson

Emil Persson is an Associate Professor and Docent at Linköping University, affiliated with the Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) and the JEDI-lab. His research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics, particularly health economics and public policy. He explores how emotions, cognitive biases, and biological factors influence decision-making, with applications to healthcare rationing, democratic decision-making, and policy design. Persson’s work bridges economics, psychology, and neuroscience, emphasizing applied policy implications and everyday decision processes.

His educational background includes a PhD and Docent title. Research interests span behavioral economics, health economics, public economics, and economic psychology. Key topics include decision fatigue in healthcare, moral emotions in policy, and the role of opportunity cost neglect. He collaborates with institutions like the JEDI-lab, which investigates intuition, reflection, and emotion in economic decisions.

Persson’s publications address decision-making in healthcare contexts, such as surgeon fatigue, public attitudes toward medical treatments, and the neurobiological influences of hormones like ghrelin. His work also examines politically motivated reasoning during crises and intertemporal prosocial behavior. While no scientific awards are explicitly listed, his contributions to behavioral economics and health policy are significant.

He advises students and contributes to academic networks via Google Scholar and ORCiD. His research is supported by collaborations with institutions like Linköping University’s Division of Economics (NEK), emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to societal challenges.