Rom Severin

Behavioral economics, Experimental economics, Microeconomic theory

As a PhD student at the Coller School of Management, under the guidance of Prof. Ayala Arad, I aspire to use innovative experiments to enrich economic models.

I obtained my master's degree in Economics from Tel Aviv University in 2023, where my thesis focused on an experiment assessing individual attitudes toward cognitive biases that result in objective mistakes. My current project explores a fundamental question in decision-making: how do people approach general, abstract economic problems, and how does this differ from handling specific, concrete ones?

In addition to my research, I serve as a research assistant and am employed as a researcher at the Saphra Research Institute. I also engage in teaching and assist in editing course content for Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, and Finance courses at both the Coller Business School and the Berglas School of Economics, catering to undergraduate and MBA students. Additionally, I contribute to the academic discourse by peer-reviewing manuscripts for prominent journals in the field of behavioral economics.

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Presentation, Economic Science Association World Meeting, Renmin University of China, 2025

Presentation, Multidisciplinary Research in Consumer Behavior Workshop, Solomon Lew Center, Tel Aviv University 2025

Poster presentation at the 1st Summer School in Experimental and Behavioral Economics, by the European Economic Review, University of Crete 2024

Poster presentation at the 10th Behavioral Game Theory Workshop, University of East Anglia 2024

Poster presentation at the 1st Annual Conference of the Network of the Behavioral and Experimental Economists based in the UK 2024

Participation in ECEE summer school in Experimental Economics, TalTech University 2023

Poster presentation at the 7th Solomon Lew Conference on Behavioral Economics, Tel-Aviv University 2023

Poster presentation at the Annual Research Seminar in Economics, MTA 2022 (Awarded Best Poster)

Presentation at the IN2IT WP5 (Development and exploitation of academy-industry/community cooperation) Summary Meeting, Kingston University London 2018 (Received Certificate of Excellence)