and worked at Kellogg, Wharton, and Chicago business schools before Caltech. His
research in behavioral economics focuses mostly on theories of risky decision mak-
ing and strategic behavior in games. He has also done experiments on price bubbles
and “cascades” in asset markets, creation of organizational culture in the form of
“codes,” and is now doing neuroscientific imaging experiments on behavior in
games. Camerer has also analyzed field data on hot-hand biases and commitment es-
calation in NBA basketball, and the labor supply of New York City cab drivers. Be-
sides nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters, he is the coauthor or editor of
four books, and the author of
Behavioral Game Theory
(Princeton, 2003). Camerer
was the first behavioral economist to become a Fellow of the Econometric Society, in
1999, and was president of the Economic Science Association 2001–03.
Vincent Crawford
earned an A.B. summa cum laude in Economics from
Princeton in 1972, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1976. Since 1976 he has worked at the University of California, San
Diego, where he is now Professor of Economics. He has held visiting positions at
Harvard, Princeton, Australian National University, University of Canterbury, and
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Honors include election as Fel-
low of the Econometric Society, a Guggenheim fellowship, election to the Council
of the Game Theory Society and to an Overseas Fellowship at Churchill College,
Cambridge, and several invited lectures. His work focuses on game theory and its
applications, from early work on learning in games, bargaining and arbitration,
matching markets, coordination, and strategic communication to recent work in-
terpreting the results of experiments and conducting experiments to study players’
mental models of other players.
Peter Diamond
is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, where he has taught since 1966. He received his B.A. in Mathematics
from Yale University in 1960 and his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1963. He
has been president of the Econometric Society and is president of the American
Economic Association. He is a founding member of the National Academy of So-
cial Insurance, where he has been president and chair of the board. He is a Fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National
Academy of Sciences. He was the recipient of the 1980 Mahalanobis Memorial
Award and the 1994 Nemmers Prize. He has written on behavioral economics,
public finance, social insurance, uncertainty and search theories, and macroeco-
nomics. His writings on social security reflect his awareness of the importance of
behavioral issues.
Ernst Fehr
is a professor in Microeconomics and Experimental Economics at the
University of Zürich. He is director of the Institute for Empirical Research in Eco-
nomics at the University of Zürich and of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the
Analysis of Economic Growth in Vienna. Ernst Fehr graduated at the University of
Vienna in 1980, where, in 1986, he also earned his doctorate. His research focuses
on the proximate patterns and the evolutionary origins of human altruism and the
interplay between social preferences, social norms, and strategic interactions. He
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