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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.

His talk at the Econometric Society World Congress in London on August 20 , 2005 was well-received.


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  • Personal webpage at Caltech

  • [http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5304846/site/newsweek "Mind Reading: The New Science of Decision Making", from ''Newsweek'']