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Economics and Finance

D-Index
128
Citations
114867
World Ranking
24
National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1999 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Colin F. Camerer is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Decision Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including General Decision Sciences, Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics of Camerer's work encompass Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, and Meta-analysis and Systematic Reviews.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Camerer include Jonathan Chapman, Erik Snowberg, Taisuke Imai, Pietro Ortoleva, and Xiaomin Li. Over time, publications have appeared predominantly in specific venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, and the Journal of Economic Literature.

Some of the recent papers involving Camerer's research include:

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams, 2020, Nature
  • Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science, 2021, Nature
  • The golden age of social science, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion, 2024, Journal of Economic Literature
  • Meta-Analysis of Present-Bias Estimation using Convex Time Budgets, 2020, The Economic Journal

Throughout their career, Camerer has received several honors, including being named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2013, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction

    Colin F. Camerer

  • In search of homo economicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

    Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd;Samuel Bowles;Colin F. Camerer

  • Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics

    Colin Camerer;George Loewenstein;Drazen Prelec

  • Overconfidence and Excess Entry: An Experimental Approach

    Colin F. Camerer;Dan Lovallo

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

    Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd;Samuel Bowles;Colin Camerer

  • A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision making

    Antonio Rangel;Colin F Camerer;P. Read Montague

  • The Effects of Financial Incentives in Experiments: A Review and Capital-Labor-Production Framework

    Colin F. Camerer;Robin M. Hogarth

  • Recent developments in modeling preferences: Uncertainty and ambiguity

    Colin F. Camerer;Martin Weber

  • Self-control in decision-making involves modulation of the vmPFC valuation system

    Todd A. Hare;Colin F. Camerer;Antonio Rangel

  • Advances in Behavioral Economics

    Colin F. Camerer;George Loewenstein;Matthew Rabin

  • Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for Asymmetric Paternalism

    Colin Camerer;Samuel Issacharoff;George Loewenstein;Ted O'Donoghue

  • Behavioral Game Theory

    Colin F. Camerer

  • Anomalies: Ultimatums, Dictators and Manners

    Colin F. Camerer;Richard H. Thaler

  • Foundations of Human Sociality - Economic Experiments and Ethnographic: Evidence From Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

    Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd;Samuel Bowles;Samuel Bowles;Colin F. Camerer

  • Reputation and corporate strategy: A review of recent theory and applications

    Keith Weigelt;Colin F. Camerer

  • Experience‐weighted Attraction Learning in Normal Form Games

    Colin F. Camerer;Teck Hua Ho

  • A Cognitive Hierarchy Model of Games

    Colin F. Camerer;Teck-Hua Ho;Juin-Kuan Chong

  • Neural Systems Responding to Degrees of Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making

    Ming Hsu;Meghana Bhatt;Meghana Bhatt;Ralph Adolphs;Ralph Adolphs;Daniel Tranel;Daniel Tranel

  • Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers: One Day at a Time

    Colin F. Camerer;Linda Babcock;George Loewenstein;Richard H. Thaler

  • Behavioral Economics: Past, Present, Future

    Colin F. Camerer;George Loewenstein

  • Getting to know you : Reputation and trust in a two-person economic exchange

    Brooks King-Casas;Brooks King-Casas;Damon Tomlin;Damon Tomlin;Cedric Anen;Cedric Anen;Colin F. Camerer;Colin F. Camerer

  • Risk and time preferences: linking experimental and household survey data from Vietnam

    Tomomi Tanaka;Colin F. Camerer;Quang Nguyen

Frequent Co-Authors

Teck-Hua Ho
Teck-Hua Ho Nanyang Technological University
Antonio Rangel
Antonio Rangel California Institute of Technology
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr University of Zurich
Anna Dreber
Anna Dreber Stockholm School of Economics
Magnus Johannesson
Magnus Johannesson Stockholm School of Economics
Michael Kirchler
Michael Kirchler University of Innsbruck
Herbert Gintis
Herbert Gintis Santa Fe Institute
Peter Bossaerts
Peter Bossaerts University of Cambridge
Roberto A. Weber
Roberto A. Weber University of Zurich

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