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Bruno S. Frey

Bruno S. Frey, born 1941 in Basel, is a Swiss economist known for motivation crowding theory, happiness economics, and public choice, and he directs CREMA in Zurich.

David Schmeidler

David Schmeidler (1939–2022) was an Israeli mathematical economist who, with Leonard Savage, pioneered rational decision making under uncertainty and introduced the nucleolus in cooperative game theory.

Gary Charness

Gary Charness was an experimental and behavioral economist and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, best known for the Charness–Rabin model of social preferences and experiments on promises and trust.

Glenn W. Harrison

Glenn W. Harrison, born 1955, is an Australian-American experimental economist at Georgia State University who coauthored the influential 2004 survey "Field Experiments" with John List.

Ingar Haaland

Ingar Kyrkjebø Haaland is a Norwegian behavioral economist and professor at NTNU Business School, also an adjunct professor at NHH, where he earned his PhD in 2019.

James Andreoni

James Andreoni (born 1959 in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American economist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, best known for the theory of warm-glow giving, which explains charitable donations.

John List

John A. List is an economist at the University of Chicago who pioneered field experiments in real markets, firms, and schools, and has served as chief economist of Uber, Lyft, and Walmart.

Larry Epstein

Larry G. Epstein is an economist and decision theorist, Professor at McGill University since 2021, known for the Epstein–Zin recursive utility framework and ambiguity aversion research with Martin Schneider.

Matthias Sutter

Matthias Sutter (born 1968 in Hard, Austria) is an Austrian behavioral and experimental economist directing the Department of Experimental Economics at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics in Bonn.

Raymond Fisman

Raymond Fisman is a Canadian-born economist, the Slater Family Professor at Boston University, known for empirical work on corruption, money in politics, and hidden influence.

Richard Zeckhauser

Richard Zeckhauser is an American economist, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor at Harvard Kennedy School since 1972, known for decision theory and pioneering policy analysis.

Roland Benabou

Roland Bénabou is a French economist working in behavioral and political economics, best known for his theory of motivated beliefs developed with Jean Tirole and his 2013 paper "Groupthink".

Teodora Boneva

Teodora Boneva is a German-based behavioral and experimental economist, Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn since 2021, known for research on gender inequality, beliefs, and climate action.

Urs Fischbacher

Urs Fischbacher, born 1959 in Zurich, is a Swiss behavioral economist who holds a chair at the University of Konstanz, directs the Thurgau Institute of Economics, and created z-Tree.