Matthew Rabin

Matthew Rabin
Matthew Rabin in 2008
Born (1963-12-27) December 27, 1963 (age 60)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldBehavioral economics, Game theory
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
MIT
Doctoral
advisor
Drew Fudenberg[1]
Doctoral
students
Jeffrey C. Ely[2]
AwardsJohn Bates Clark Medal
John von Neumann Award
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Matthew Joel Rabin (born December 27, 1963) is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School. Rabin's research focuses primarily on incorporating psychologically more realistic assumptions into empirically applicable formal economic theory. His topics of interest include errors in statistical reasoning and the evolution of beliefs, effects of choice context on exhibited preferences, reference-dependent preferences, and errors people make in inference in market and learning settings.[3][4]

  1. ^ Drew Fudenberg Students
  2. ^ "Ely's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  3. ^ "Matthew Rabin - Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics". Harvard University. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
  4. ^ "The Pershing Square Foundation awards $17M to Harvard". Harvard Gazette. April 14, 2014. Retrieved October 27, 2014.

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