Bruno Frey is Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Basel. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Konstanz from 1970-1977 and at the University of Zurich from 1977-2012, Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Science at the Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, UK from 2010-2013 and Senior Professor of Economics at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, DE from 2013-2015.

Frey is Research Director of CREMA - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Switzerland and Co-Founder of CREW - Center for Research in Economics and Well-Being at the University of Basel. He was Managing Editor, from 1969-2015, and is now Honorary Editor of Kyklos. Bruno Frey seeks to extend economics beyond standard neo-classics by including insights from other disciplines, including political science, psychology and sociology.

In 2020, Frey is in fifth place in the ranking of „important economists“ in Switzerland by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ, 24th September 2020), ninth place in the corresponding ranking for Germany by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ, 24th September 2020) and on top of the list with respect to „life achievement“ produced by the Handelsblatt in Germany (Handelsblatt, 16th September 2019). According to ISI - The Institute for Scientific Information, Bruno S. Frey belongs to „the most highly cited Researchers“.

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