Erich Kirchler

Professor Economic Psychology, University of Vienna

 

 

Erich Kirchler has been Professor of Economic Psychology at the University of Vienna since 1992. He graduated in 1979 in Psychology and Human Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria, and received his habilitation in Psychology in 1989 from the University of Linz, Austria. He has been invited as guest professor at various universities and visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, and ANU, Canberra, Australia, and received calls for professorship from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and from the University of Cologne, Germany.

 

His research focuses on tax behaviour and money management in the household. Most of the 400 scientific publications are dedicated to these research fields; relevant books in these fields are Conflict and Decision Making in Close Relationships (2001), and The Economic Psychology of Tax Behaviour (2007).