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American economist (born 1963) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matthew Joel Rabin (born December 27, 1963) is an American economist. He 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]
Matthew Rabin | |
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Rabin in 2008 | |
| Born | December 27, 1963 |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Behavioral economics, Game theory |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison MIT |
| Doctoral advisor | Drew Fudenberg[1] |
| Doctoral students | Jeffrey C. Ely[2] |
| Awards | John Bates Clark Medal John von Neumann Award |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Rabin was the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley Economics Department for 25 years before moving to Harvard.[3][5] He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1984 and PhD in Economics from MIT in 1989.[6] Before entering MIT, he was a research student at the London School of Economics.[3] He is a member of the Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable and co-organizer of the Russell Sage Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics.[6] Rabin has also been a visiting professor at M.I.T., London School of Economics, Northwestern, Harvard, and Caltech, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Russell Sage Foundation.[3][6]
His research is directed, among other economic fields, towards behavioral finance and behavioral economics. Rabin works on the economics of individual self-control problems, reference-dependent preferences, fairness motives and mistakes in probabilistic reasoning. He developed Rabin fairness as a model to account for fairness in social preferences. In 2001, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association[7] and also the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship.[6] In 2006, he was awarded the John von Neumann Award by the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies.[6]
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