Research

Mette's research is within the fields of Applied behavioral economics, Experimental economics, and Public economics with a special focus on nudging interventions in public economics and policy. For example, she has studied the effectiveness of nudges to induce giving to charitable organizations and documented potentially adverse long term effect of nudging strategies. She has also studied nudging in education and health policy. In 2018, she received the Tietgen Award for her research on Nudging.

Personal Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/mettetrierdamgaard/

Profile

Mette Trier Damgaard is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, a Deputy Director of CIBP (Center for Integrative Business Psychology), and a Fellow at TrygFondens Centre for Child Research. She obtained her PhD in Economics from Aarhus University in 2016 and was a Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley during 2014/2015. Mette has previously worked at the economics consultancy firm London Economics for a number of years.

Teaching

Mette teaches couses in microeconomics, behavioural economics and cost benefit analysis. She has taught across many different AU study programs (HA, oecon, International Economic Consulting (IEC), Mathematics and Economics), at all different levels (BA, MSc & PhD) and in both mandatory and elective courses. In her teaching she draws both on the research interests and her consulting experience. In addtion, Mette undertakes supervision of bachelor theses, master theses, topic reports and Ph.D. supervision.