Colin Camerer
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Colin F. Camerer (born 1959) is an American behavioral economist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), whose PhD program is considered one of the best Economics and Political Science PhD programs in the world.
A former child prodigy, Camerer received a B.A. in quantitative studies from Johns Hopkins University in 1977, followed by an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago in 1979 and a Ph.D. in behavioral decision theory from that same institution in 1981. Camerer worked at Kellogg, Wharton, and the University of Chicago business schools before coming to Caltech in 1994.
Camerer's research is on the interface between cognitive psychology and economics. This work seeks a better understanding of the psychological and neurobiological basis of decision-making in order to determine the validity of models of human economic behavior.
His talk at the Econometric Society World Congress in London on August 20, 2005 was well-received.
He is the author of "Behavioral Game Theory" published by Princeton University Press in 2003.
Camerer previously produced the punk-rock group Dead Milkmen.
