[1] Starting from 2010 until 2013, Frey was appointed to the Warwick Business School in the role of a Dinstinguished Professor of Behavioural Science.
[2] Frey was appointed to the Copenhagen Consensus expert commission in 2004, alongside four Nobel Prize winners.
[3] In July 2011, the University of Zurich established a commission to investigate allegations of publication misconduct (self-plagiarism) by Frey and his co-authors.
[4] In July 2012, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Management at the University of Zurich decided to not extend the employment contract Frey had after having become emeritus professor.
In 2012, the government of Bhutan appointed Frey to an international group of experts to investigate "a new development paradigm designed to nurture human happiness and the wellbeing of all life on earth.
[6] Additionally, the Swiss newspaper, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, publishes regularly a rating measuring the academic success and the public perception in the media and politics of economists.
[11] In December 2023, Wirtschaftswoche listed Frey as number 1 in the ranking for academic lifetime achievement for economists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
[28][29] Frey is author of more than a dozen books in English and/or German (including a number of translations into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese) and more than 300 articles in professional academic journals.
The losing opinion is not completely excluded, as was previously the case, but is integrated into the future solution to the extent of its partial success.
[36] During 2010 and 2011 Frey, with co-authors Benno Torgler and David Savage, published four articles concerning the Titanic disaster in four different journals.