Matthew Rabin
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Matthew Rabin (born December 27, 1963) is Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California -- Berkeley.[1]
He received B.A in Economics and Mathematics from University of Wisconsin in 1984 and Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1989.
His research is directed , among other economic fields, towards behavioral finance / economics. Rabin works on the economics of individual self-control problems, reference-dependent preferences, fairness motives and mistakes in probabilistic reasoning. In 2001 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association and also the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship.
