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Kinga Barrafrem is an Associate Professor at Linköping University, affiliated with the Department of Management and Engineering. Her research focuses on behavioral economics, particularly financial decision-making, information processing, and digital well-being. She holds a PhD in Economics from Linköping University (2017) and advanced degrees from Warsaw School of Economics. She leads the JEDI-lab, exploring intuition, reflection, and emotion in economic decisions. Her work bridges theory and practice, using experiments, surveys, and microdata.
Key research areas include financial well-being dimensions, information ignorance, and technology’s impact on decisions. She has been awarded the prestigious Wallander Grant (2018) for her doctoral thesis on behavioral economics. Recent studies explore AI's role in financial decision-making, particularly aiding those with limited financial knowledge.
Barrafrem collaborates with industry partners and has published extensively on topics like decision inertia, saving behavior, and the effects of scarcity. Her research emphasizes real-world applications, such as policy design and improving financial literacy. She currently serves as Director of Studies in the Division of Economics and actively contributes to academic discourse through editorial roles and international conferences.
