Colin Camerer

Colin Camerer received a B.A. (1976) from Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. (1979) and Ph.D. (1981) from the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology in 1994, where he is currently Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics. His prior affiliations include the University of Chicago (1991–1994), the University of Pennsylvania (1983–1989), and Northwestern University (1981–1983). Colin Camerer is a pioneering economist whose research challenges assumptions about human behavior in the traditional models used by economists. Particularly adept at designing original and effective empirical experiments to explore and refine economists’ predictive models, Camerer’s seminal studies provide strong evidence of the inconsistencies between classical economic principles of rationality and observed choices and behavior of real people, leading to new theories.