Douglas Bernheim

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Bert Douglas Bernheim (* 1958) is an American economist .

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Bernheim studied from 1975 to 1979 at Harvard University , where he completed his Artium Baccalaureus (AB) with summa cum laude. Then he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received his Ph.D. received his doctorate . He was then at Stanford University Assistant Professor (1982-1987) and Associate Professor (1987-1988). He moved to Northwestern University as Harold J. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management (1988–1990) and as John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Corporate Policy at Princeton University (1990–1994). He has been back at Stanford University since 1994: from 1994 to 2005 as Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor and since 2005 as Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics. Since 1986 he has also been doing research for the National Bureau of Economic Research .

Bernheim works in the fields of finance , industrial economics , political economics , behavioral economics and microeconomics .

Works

  • The Vanishing Nest Egg. Reflections on Saving in America. Twentieth Century Fund / Priority Press, New York 1991, ISBN 0-87078-313-0
  • with JB Shoven (Ed.): National Saving and Economic Performance. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 0-226-04404-1
  • with Michael Whinston: Anticompetitive Exclusion and Foreclosure through Vertical Agreements. CORE Lecture Series, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1999
  • with Michael Whinston: Microeconomics. McGraw-Hill, Boston 2008, ISBN 0-07-721199-5 , ISBN 978-0-07-721199-8

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