Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico - Universidad de Alicante

🏆Alberto Pérez-Bernabeu, who recently completed his PhD at our department, has been awarded the ‘Applied Economic Analysis Young Researcher Award’ during the XVIII Applied Economics Meeting.
The award recognizes the best research paper presented at the conference whose authors are under the age of 35.
👏We would like to congratulate Alberto Pérez-Bernabeu on this important achievement.
📌This research has been funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, the State Research Agency (AEI), Plan de Recuperación, and the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

🧠📊 The Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference 2026 has come to an end.
🎤 Three days of cutting-edge behavioural science. Six brilliant keynotes. One unforgettable conference. 👏🎓
Thank you to all keynote speakers, presenters, and attendees for making this edition special.
See you at the next edition! 👋🧠📊

UA - Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante

🧠📊 We close three incredible days of behavioural science with Mohammed Abdellaoui (HEC Paris; CNRS), delivering the final keynote lecture of the conference: ‘From Risk to Ambiguity: The Many Lives of Probability Weighting’.
A brilliant conclusion to FUR 2026 at the University of Alicante. 👏🎓

📰 El diario Información sigue haciéndose eco del FUR 2026.
🧠 Hoy publica una entrevista con José Apesteguia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona), uno de los ponentes del congreso.
🔗 Lee la entrevista completa aquí:
https://www.informacion.es/economia/2026/06/11/jose-apesteguia-lideres-deben-rodearse-131300991.html

🧠📊 Today's plenary lecture is dedicated to Germán Bernácer, one of the most original Spanish economists of the twentieth century, whose work on uncertainty and decision-making connects perfectly with the spirit of FUR.
🎤 José Apesteguia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona) presents: ‘Preference Heterogeneity in Risk: Theory and Evidence’.
🙏 With thanks to the Germán Bernácer Chair at the University of Alicante for their support of this conference.

🧠 💡 The FUR 2026 continues at the University of Alicante. We are now ready for the next session.
🎤🌍Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) takes the stage with: ‘Insights from psychology for effective science communication: Examples from the climate crisis’.

🧠📊 ¡Hoy continúa el FUR 2026!
Todo listo para una nueva jornada de una de las conferencias interdisciplinarias sobre ciencias del comportamiento más prestigiosas del mundo.
📍 Te esperamos en la UA - Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante.

🔗https://www.informacion.es/economia/2026/06/10/mayores-expertos-internacionales-economia-alertan-131253094.html

⚠️Finally, the seminar scheduled for today has been cancelled.⚠️
We apologize for the inconvenience.

🧠 The first keynote of FUR 2026 has begun!
🎤Sevgi Yuksel (New York University) opens the conference with: ‘People as Intuitive Modelers: How Model Complexity Adapts to Data.’
📊🚀 What a way to start!

🎓 🎉 We are thrilled to start The Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference 2026, one of the world's most prestigious interdisciplinary conferences in behavioural science.
🎤The welcome address has just been delivered by our colleagues Juan Llopis and Han Bleichrodt.

🧠📊 Three days of top behavioural science ahead at the UA - Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante.