Nagore Iriberri
EconomicsPhD in Economics from the University of California, San Diego (United States).
She is currently an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), where she carries out outstanding scientific work in the fields of behavioral economics, experimental economics, and gender economics.
Her research has focused on understanding how people make decisions in strategic and competitive contexts, incorporating psychological and social factors that traditional economic models often ignore. Her work has made a decisive contribution to the development of new theories on bounded rationality, strategic behavior, and decision-making in situations of imperfect information, becoming an international reference in these fields.
Among her most influential contributions are her studies on auction behavior, strategic learning, and individual motivation, as well as her research on the effect of social comparison and performance information in educational and work environments. Her work has demonstrated how knowledge of other people's performance can significantly modify incentives and outcomes. A second key line of her research has focused on gender economics.
Her studies have provided pioneering empirical evidence on the differences in
behavior between men and women in competitive environments, as well as on the
mechanisms that explain gender inequality in academia and the professional world. Her
research has made significant contributions to the international debate on
recognition, promotion, and evaluation of scientific talent.
A member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 2016, she has also held
important institutional responsibilities, including the presidency of the Spanish Economic Association and the coordination of the Economics area at the State Research Agency.
The jury of the Rei Jaume I Prizes has unanimously decided to award Nagore Iriberri in Economics for making path-breaking contributions to behavioral economics, and gender economics. Her early work on non-equilibrium behavior in games has influenced very strongly the whole experimental economics field. Her more recent contributions on the importance of expectations on the behavior of males and females in competitive situations, or the impact of gender on professional progression in Economics has been very influential both to understand the world and to transform it. She has also provided important services to the profession, by chairing the Economics panel in the State Agency for Research in Spain, and she was the president of the Spanish Economic Association in 2024.
