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Professor Colin Camerer is the Rea and Lela Axline Professor of Business Economics at the California Institute of Technology (located in Pasadena), where he teaches both cognitive psychology and economics. Professor Camerer earned a BA degree in quantitative studies from Johns Hopkins in 1977, and an MBA in finance (1979) and a Ph.D. in decision theory (1981) from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Before coming to Caltech in 1994, he held positions at the Kellogg, Wharton, and University of Chicago business schools. Professor Camerer has published more than 80 articles and chapters in journals and books, coedited or coauthored four books, and written one book (Behavioral Game Theory). He also serves on the editorial boards of several major journals in both psychology and economics, including the American Economic Review and Econometrica. In 1999, Camerer was the first behavioral economist elected to the Econometric Society (the only elected society in economics). In 2000, Professor Camerer was elected President of the Economic Science Association, an international association of scientists who study economic behavior experimentally. Camerer's research is about how theories of behavior in decisions, games, and markets can be informed by psychology. He is currently researching organizational culture and imaging brain activity when people perform economic tasks.
Stefano DellaVigna holds an undergraduate degree (Laurea, 1997) in Economics from Bocconi University, Milan, and a Ph.D. in Economics (2002) from Harvard University. He is Assistant Professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research focuses on three areas: field data evidence of self-control, firm response to consumer biases, and implications of inattention.
Massimo Egidi graduated in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Turin in 1964. From 1970 to 1986 he taught first at the Politecnico of Turin and then at the University of Turin. In 1987, he became Professor of Economics at the University of Trento, where he founded the Computation and Experimental Economics Laboratory. For the last four years he has been the University's Rector. His major research interests are in Experimental Economics, focusing in particular on organizational learning, on expectations formation, on procedural rationality, and on production and innovation theory.
Professor in Microeconomics and Experimental Economics at the University of Zürich. He is director of the Institute for Empirical Research in
Economics at the University of Zürich and of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Analysis of Economic Growth. Ernst Fehr graduated at
the University of Vienna in 1980 where he also earned his doctorate in 1986.
Dan Friedman's 1977 dissertation on market dynamics (supervised by Stephen Smale) earned him a Mathematics PhD from University of California, Santa Cruz. He learned something about real-world finance and economics from two years at Bank of America, and then began his academic career at UCLA. He joined the UCSC Economics Department in 1985. Best known for his work in evolutionary game theory and laboratory markets, Dan is currently investigating e-commerce market institutions and the evolutionary foundations of behavioral economics.
David Laibson holds degrees from Harvard University (BA in Economics, summa cum laude), the London School of Economic (MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Phd in Economics). In 1994 Laibson joined the economics faculty at Harvard University. In 1998 he became the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy and in 2002 he was promoted to the position of Professor of Economics. Laibson is a member of the Russell Sage Behavioral Economics Roundtable, the MacArthur Foundation Preferences Network, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is Research Associate in the Asset Pricing, Economic Fluctuations, and Aging Working Groups. Laibson’s research focuses on the topic of psychology and economics. He is currently working in the fields of macroeconomics, decision and cognitive sciences, behavioral finance, and experimental economics.
Axel Stig Bengt Leijonhufvud was born in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1960 to do graduate work and obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1994 and served repeatedly as Chairman of the Economics Department.
George Loewenstein is Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1985 and since then has held academic positions at The University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, and fellowships at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, The Russell Sage Foundation and The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. His research focuses on applications of psychology to economics, and his specific interests include decision making over time, bargaining and negotiations, psychology and health, law and economics, the psychology of adaptation, the psychology of curiosity, and "out of control" behaviors such as impulsive violent crime and drug addiction.
Ulrike Malmendier studied at the University of Bonn from 1993 to 1997, earning an M.A. in Economics in 1996 and the equivalent to a B.A. in Law in 1997. She continued
graduate work in Law at Oxford University, in a joint program with Bonn, and obtained a Ph.D. in Law in 2000. Her graduate work in Economics was at Harvard University,
where she received a Ph.D. in Business Economics in 2002. Since July 2002, she is Assistant Professor of Finance at Stanford University.
Luigi Mittone graduated in Economics and Social Sciences from the University L. Bocconi of Milan, obtainend his Master of Social Sciences from the University of Birmingham, and his Doctor of Philosophy (Economics) from the University of Bristol. He is Associate Professor of Public Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Trento and Vice President of TECS at the University of Trento. His major research interests are in "Public and Health Economics", in "Experimental economics", fiscal evasion theory, consumer behaviour; double auctions markets; mental modelling of uncertain events, and in "Computational economics", fiscal system dynamic with heterogeneous agents.
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