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COLIN F. CAMERER


Professor Colin F. Camerer is the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics at the California Institute of Technology, where he teaches cognitive psychology and economics.

Professor Camerer earned a BA degree in quantitative studies from Johns Hopkins in 1977, a MBA in finance (1979), and a Ph.D. in decision theory (1981, at age 22) from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Before coming to Caltech in 1994, Camerer worked at the Kellogg, Wharton, and University of Chicago business schools. He studies both behavioral and experimental economics.

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WHAT IS NEUROECONOMICS?

Neuroeconomics combines the studies of economics and neuroscience to study our habits of decision making. It strives to answer the question of why we make decisions the way we do.

Watson Lecture: The Brain Hates Losing (and Other News from Neuroeconomics)

October 12, 2022 | 7:30 p.m. | Beckman Auditorium
Lecture begins at 15:39