Botond Köszegi

Botond Köszegi serves as Professor of Economics at Central European University and holds a Research Fellowship at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), with his primary academic appointment in the Department of Economics.

His research focuses on:

• Behavioral Economics: Investigating cognitive limitations like limited attention and loss aversion in economic decision-making
• Industrial Organization: Analyzing firm behavior and market structures through behavioral lenses
• Consumer Protection: Developing policy frameworks for markets with psychologically constrained consumers
• Digital Economics: Modeling competition dynamics in platform-based digital ecosystems

Köszegi's recent 2024 publications examine consumer protection mechanisms in attention-scarce digital economies and theoretical foundations of digital ecosystems, extending his seminal work on behavioral industrial organization (2018) and loss aversion in pricing (2005). This research trajectory demonstrates consistent integration of psychological realism into industrial organization models, with increasing emphasis on digital market regulation.