Richard H. Thaler
Robert P Gwinn Professor of Behavorial Science and Economics,
University of Chicago
Background
Richard Thaler is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of behavioral science and economics at University of Chicago. He currently serves as the director of the Center for Decision Research, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-director of the project on behavioral economics. His research focuses on behavioral economics and finance, as well as the psychology of decision making. He has served as a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the H. J. Louis Professor of Economics, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.
Dr. Thaler earned his B.A. in economics from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester.
Research Projects for the Center for Retirement Research
Completed
"Improving 401(k) Investment Performance" (with William G. Gale, J. Mark Iwry, and Alicia H. Munnell), Issue in Brief, #26, December 2004.
Selected Publications
- Thaler, Richard H. 1991. Quasi-Rational Economics. Russell Sage Foundation.
- Thaler, Richard H. 1991. The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life. Free Press.
- Thaler, Richard H. (ed.). 1993. Advances in Behavioral Finance, editor. Russell Sage Foundation.
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