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Matthew Rabin is a professor of behavioral economics at Harvard University and Harvard Business School. He studies how psychology affects economic theory and behavior, and his topics include errors, context, reference dependence, and evolution of beliefs.
Matthew Joel Rabin (born December 27, 1963) is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School. Rabin's research focuses primarily on incorporating psychologically more realistic assumptions into empirically applicable formal economic theory.
Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School. Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department.
Learn about Matthew Rabin's academic background, achievements, and professional activities. He is a Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics at Harvard University and a former MacArthur Fellow and John Bates Clark Medalist.
Present Bias: Lessons Learned and to Be Learned by Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin. Published in volume 105, issue 5, pages 273-79 of American Economic Review, May 2015, Abstract: While present bias is an old idea, it only took hold in economics following David Laibson's (1994) dissertation.
A Model of Relative Thinking. By: Benjamin Bushong, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein. Fixed differences loom smaller when compared to large differences. We propose a model of relative thinking where a person weighs a given change along a consumption dimension by less when it is compared to bigger changes along that dimension.
Apr 14, 2014 · Matthew Rabin (photo 1) is the first of three new faculty appointments to Harvard’s Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative. Rabin will join FHB Director David Laibson (photo 2) in the study of psychological, social, economic, political, and biological aspects of human behavior.
