Colin Camerer - Definition and Overview

Colin F. Camerer (born 4 December, 1959) is a behavioral economist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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.

Links

• Personal webpage at Caltech (http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~camerer/camerer.html)
• "Mind Reading: The New Science of Decision Making", from Newsweek (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5304846/site/newsweek)