Hans K. Hvide is SIRE Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Aberdeen. He has previously held positions at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business (NHH), from which he received his Ph.D. in 1998, and as visiting associate professor at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. He is also a research affiliate at the CEPR.

His research includes economics of entrepreneurship, personnel economics (tournaments, delegation), behavioral economics (overconfidence, memory) and corporate finance (corporate governance, capital structure).

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2005.