Richard Thaler

Company: University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Area of Expertise: Behavioral Economics and Finance

Website: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/richard.thaler/index.html

Twitter Feed: @rthaler

Books: “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness” (Yale University Press, 2008) with Cass Sunstein; “Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics” (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015).

Email: Thaler@chicagobooth.edu

Biography:

Richard H. Thaler is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Prior to coming to Chicago in 1995 he was a professor at Cornell’s Johnson School of Management. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Thaler's research lies in the gap between psychology and economics.

Thaler was recently awarded the 2017 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He is considered a pioneer in the fields of behavioral economics and finance. He is the author of numerous academic articles and the books “The Winner's Curse,” “Nudge” (with Cass Sunstein) and “Misbehaving.” He is a regular contributor to the New York Times “Economic View” column that appears in the Sunday Business Section.

In 2015, Thaler served as president of the American Economic Association is a distinguished fellow of the American Finance Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Thaler is also a principal of Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, located in San Mateo, California, which uses behavioral finance concepts to invest in equities. They manage over $8 billion primarily invested in small- to mid-sized U.S. companies.