Five PhD graduates from the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne were awarded prizes at the Master's graduation ceremony on Thursday 8 December 2016. The prizes were awarded for their theses' scientific contribution and the innovative nature of their areas of research. The Dean's Office warmly congratulates the researchers concerned ? in total, 16 PhD theses were examined by viva at the Faculty of Business and Economics in 2016.
The HEC Lausanne students awarded prizes in 2016 were as follows:
A closer look at Dr Grieder's research
Manuel Grieder's thesis, Three essays on the behavioural economics of organizations, combines different psychological perspectives on human behaviour, using both the methodological and analytical tools found in economics, and game theory: "For example, I analyzed the occurrence of counter-productive behaviours in response to perceptions of injustice. The results of my experiments show that competitive mechanisms can be used to manage both perceptions of fairness between people but also, in situations of inequality, to reduce the scale of counter-productive vengeance reactions. Competitive markets can therefore both create inequality and increase its acceptability." His results contribute to the current debate on the somewhat sensitive subject of economic inequalities.