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Economics and Finance
USA
2023

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Economics and Finance D-index 90 Citations 159,013 169 World Ranking 101 National Ranking 82

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award

2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

2017 - Nobel Prize for his contributions to behavioural economics

2017 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for his contributions to behavioural economics".

2016 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association

2012 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

2009 - Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA)

2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Finance
  • Microeconomics

Richard H. Thaler mostly deals with Microeconomics, Prospect theory, Loss aversion, Positive economics and Actuarial science. His Microeconomics research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Discount points, Community standards and Exponential discounting. His Prospect theory research incorporates elements of Consumer choice, Sunk costs, Representativeness heuristic, Disposition effect and Normative.

His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Test, Status quo bias and Endowment effect. In his work, Champion, Happiness and Nudge theory is strongly intertwined with Consumer behaviour, which is a subfield of Actuarial science. His Rationality research includes themes of Financial economics and Stock market.

His most cited work include:

  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (6865 citations)
  • Does the Stock Market Overreact (5117 citations)
  • Toward a positive theory of consumer choice (3683 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of investigation include Behavioral economics, Microeconomics, Financial economics, Actuarial science and Monetary economics. His Behavioral economics research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Corporate finance, Rationality, Positive economics, Bounded rationality and Choice architecture. His research in Microeconomics intersects with topics in Simple and Expected utility hypothesis.

His work in Financial economics addresses subjects such as Stock market, which are connected to disciplines such as Portfolio, Framing and Equity premium puzzle. Richard H. Thaler studies Actuarial science, namely Mental accounting. His Monetary economics study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Earnings, Dividend policy and Great Depression.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Behavioral economics (26.94%)
  • Microeconomics (21.22%)
  • Financial economics (18.37%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2021)?

  • Behavioral economics (26.94%)
  • Choice architecture (8.16%)
  • Positive economics (11.84%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Behavioral economics, Choice architecture, Positive economics, Public economics and Incentive. Richard H. Thaler combines subjects such as Nudge theory, Cognitive science and Pension with his study of Choice architecture. His work in Pension covers topics such as Private sector which are related to areas like Actuarial science.

Richard H. Thaler has researched Positive economics in several fields, including Rationality, Public policy, Paternalism and Loss aversion. His research investigates the connection between Rationality and topics such as Subject that intersect with issues in Prospect theory. His Prospect theory research is included under the broader classification of Microeconomics.

Between 2011 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias (632 citations)
  • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (382 citations)
  • Should Governments Invest More in Nudging (211 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Finance
  • Microeconomics

Behavioral economics, Incentive, Positive economics, Actuarial science and Prospect theory are his primary areas of study. The concepts of his Behavioral economics study are interwoven with issues in Choice architecture, Public relations, Rationality and Making-of. His Incentive study combines topics in areas such as Rational expectations, Football and Market value.

His Positive economics study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Status quo bias, Anomaly, Endowment effect and Loss aversion. His work carried out in the field of Actuarial science brings together such families of science as Simple, Expected utility hypothesis, Positive political theory, Stochastic game and Risk aversion. His study connects Discount points and Prospect theory.

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Best Publications

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Richard H. Thaler;Cass R. Sunstein.
(2008)

19804 Citations

Toward a positive theory of consumer choice

Richard H. Thaler.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (1980)

8449 Citations

Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice

Richard H. Thaler.
Marketing Science (2008)

8213 Citations

Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias

Daniel Kahneman;Jack L. Knetsch;Richard H. Thaler.
Journal of Economic Perspectives (1991)

7074 Citations

Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem

Daniel Kahneman;Jack L. Knetsch;Richard H. Thaler.
Journal of Political Economy (1990)

6041 Citations

Does the Stock Market Overreact

Werner F. M. De Bondt;Richard Thaler.
Journal of Finance (1985)

5557 Citations

A survey of behavioral finance

Nicholas Barberis;Richard Thaler.
Research Papers in Economics (2003)

5065 Citations

Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking: Entitlements in the Market

Daniel Kahneman;Jack L. Knetsch;Richard H. Thaler.
The American Economic Review (1986)

4987 Citations

Mental accounting matters

Richard H. Thaler.
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (1999)

4676 Citations

MYOPIC LOSS AVERSION AND THE EQUITY PREMIUM PUZZLE

Shlomo Benartzi;Richard H Thaler.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (1995)

4606 Citations

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