Colin Camerer

Colin F. Camerer (born December 4, 1959 ) is an American economist . He is Professor of Economics at the California Institute of Technology .

Life

Camerer studied Quantitative Social Research at Johns Hopkins University ( BA , 1977). In 1979 he received an MBA in Finance and in 1981 a Ph.D. in decision theory from the University of Chicago . From 1981 to 1983, Camerer was an assistant professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and from 1983 to 1989 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania . At the University of Pennsylvania he was professor of decision science from 1989-1991, then professor at the University of Chicago. He has been at Caltech since 1994. 1991/92 he was visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, 1997/98 at Stanford University . From 2001 to 2003 he was President of the Economic Science Association . In 2013 he received a five-year MacArthur Fellowship worth $ 600,000 .

Since 2017, Clarivate Analytics has been one of the favorites for an Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics ( Clarivate Citation Laureates , formerly Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .

job

Camerer's research areas are behavioral and experimental economics .

Web links

• Camerer at Caltech
• Camerer Presentation on Neuroeconomics , Mar 4, 2011, Johns Hopkins University
• Camerer's talk on Cognitive Neuroscience and Paternalism , January 30, 2009, RSA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George G. Szpiro (gsz.): Colin Camerer - Pionier and MacArthur Fellow with IQ 160 , in: NZZ , July 5, 2014, p. 15
2. ↑ The 2017 Clarivate Citation Laureates - Clarivate. (No longer available online.) In: clarivate.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2017 ; accessed on September 21, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.