Ian Ayres
Yale Law School
Ian Ayres is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School. He has published eight books and hundreds of articles on a wide variety of topics and is a regular contributor to public radio’s Marketplace and a columnist for Forbes.
B. Douglas Bernheim
Stanford University
B. Douglas Bernheim is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He has published extensively in public economics, political economy, behavioral economics, industrial organization, financial economics, game theory, and contract theory. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, and an NBER–Olin Research Fellowship. He has served as the Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, and as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review.
Truman F. Bewley
Yale University
Truman F. Bewley received a PhD in economics in 1970 and a PhD in mathematics in 1971, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He is now the Alfred C. Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University. He has contributed to general equilibrium theory and has written a book, Why Wages Don’t Fall During a Recession (1999) based on over 300 interviews with businesspeople, labor leaders, and other decision makers important to the labor market.
Colin F. Camerer
California Institute of Technology
Colin F. Camerer is the Axline Professor of Business Economics at Caltech. He studies the behavioral economics of decisions, strategic thinking, and markets, using a combination of experimental methods and field data. His recent work explores the neural foundations of economics. He has edited or written four books, including Behavioral Game Theory (2003) and published more than 100 articles in journals and books. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and was 2005–6 President of the Society for Neuroeconomics.
Anne Case
Princeton University
Anne Case is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where she serves as Director of the Research Program in Development Studies. Her recent research has focused on the two-way links between economic status and health status, both in the United States and in developing countries. She has published extensively on health and well-being in professional journals, and she is currently serving on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the World Bank Economic Review.
Michael D. Cohen
University of Michigan
Michael D. Cohen is the William D. Hamilton Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Information, and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He has published numerous articles on organizational decision-making in journals such as Rationality and Society and Nature. He is the coauthor (with Robert Axelrod) of Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier. His empirical work includes field studies of decision processes and laboratory experiments showing the foundations of group routines in individual procedural memory. He has served as an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and as a long-term consultant at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Peter Diamond
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Diamond is an Institute Professor and Professor of Economics at MIT, where he has taught since 1966. He has been President of the American Economic Association, of the Econometric Society, and of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has written on behavioral economics, public finance, social insurance, uncertainty and search theories, and macroeconomics.
Christoph Engel
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Christoph Engel received his Dr. Juris from Tübingen, and did his Habilitation in Hamburg. He held a Chair of Media and Communication Law at the University of Osnabrück, was the head the Max Planck Project Group on the Law of Common Goods, and has been the Director of Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn since 2003. His main research area is the behavioral analysis of legal issues. His recent publications include Generating Predictability (2005) and, with Gerd Gigerenzer, Heuristics and the Law (2006).
Richard G. Frank
Harvard Medical School
Richard G. Frank is the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the Biobehavioral Sciences Board of the Institute of Medicine. He advises several state mental health and substance abuse agencies, and serves as Co-Editor for the Journal of Health Economics. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Georgescu-Roegen Prize from the Southern Economic Association, the Carl A. Taube Award from the American Public Health Association, and the Emily Mumford Medal from Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry.
Jacob Glazer
Tel Aviv University and Boston University
Jacob Glazer is a Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University and Boston University. He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1986. His fields of interest are health economics, industrial organization, and economic theory.
Seppo Honkapohja
University of Cambridge
Seppo Honkapohja is Professor of International Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge. He was formerly Professor of Economics at the University of Helsinki. His interests are in macroeconomics, especially in the modeling of learning and expectations, bounded rationality, and their implications for monetary and fiscal policy.
Christine Jolls
Yale Law School and National Bureau of Economic Research
Christine Jolls is Professor of Law at Yale Law School and co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Law and Economics Program. She trained as both a lawyer and an economist and has written widely on both behavioral law and economics and the economics of employment and contract law.
Botond Koszegi
Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Botond Koszegi is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. His research focuses on mathematical modeling of psychological issues relevant to economics, and especially on self-control problems, anticipatory emotions, and reference-dependent preferences.
Ulrike Malmendier
Stanford University
Ulrike Malmendier is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Stanford University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. She received a PhD from Harvard University and a PhD in Law from the University of Bonn. She is Associate Editor of the Economic Journal and the Journal of Financial Intermediation.
Sendhil Mullainathan
Harvard University
Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, specializes in Behavioral Economics, Poverty, and Finance, and has been involved in integrating psychology into economics. He was a founding member of the Poverty Action Lab, and a Research Associate at the NBER. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and received his PhD in Economics from Harvard.
Antonio Rangel
Stanford University
Antonio Rangel is an Assistant Professor at the Stanford University Department of Economics and the Director of the Stanford Neuroeconomics Lab. His research interests include neuroeconomics, psychology, and economics, and their applications to public policy.
Emmanuel Saez
University of California at Berkeley
Emmanuel Saez obtained his PhD at MIT. He is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, Research Associate at the NBER, and Editor of the Journal of Public Economics. He works on issues of taxation, redistribution, and retirement savings.
Eldar Shafir
Princeton University
Eldar Shafir is Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He received his PhD in Cognitive Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. His interests are in descriptive studies of decision-making and their implications for economics and rationality. Recent research has focused on decision-making in the context of poverty.
Sir Nicholas Stern
Her Majesty’s Treasury
Sir Nicholas Stern is Second Permanent Secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury, Director of Policy and Research for the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa, and Head of the Government Economic Service. He is also former Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and a former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. His research and publications have focused on economic development and growth, economic theory, tax reform, public policy and the role of the state and economies in transition. He is the author of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Jean Tirole
University of Toulouse
Jean Tirole received his PhD in economics from MIT. He is Scientific Director of the Institut d’Economie Industrielle, University of Social Sciences, Toulouse. He has taught at MIT, where he now holds a position as a permanent visiting professor. He has published over 150 professional articles and eight books on industrial organization, regulation, game theory, banking and finance, psychology and economics, and macroeconomics. He received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award from the European Economic Association in 1993.
Hannu Vartiainen
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
Hannu Vartiainen is Scientific Director of the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation, and Docent of the Helsinki School of Economics. He received his PhD from the University of Helsinki and works on game theory, social choice, and decision theory.
Timothy D. Wilson
University of Virginia
Timothy D. Wilson received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1977. He is currently Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (2002).