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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Douglas Bernheim


Role
  
Professor

Fields
  
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Institution
  
Stanford UniversityNorthwestern UniversityPrinceton University

Alma mater
  
Harvard UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Education
  
Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

Books
  
Microeconomics, Loose‑Leaf for Microeconomics, Loose‑Leaf Microeconomics with Con, The Vanishing Nest Egg, Study Guide

Similar People
  
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Siepr associates meeting with douglas bernheim september 2014


B. Douglas Bernheim is an American professor of Economics, currently the Edward Ames Edmunds Professor of Economics at Stanford University; his previous academic appointments have included an endowed chair in Economics and Business Policy at Princeton University and an endowed chair in Insurance and Risk Management at Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Department of Finance. He has published many articles in academic journals, and has received a number of awards recognizing his contributions to the field of economics. He is a Partner with Bates White, LLC an economic consulting firm with offices in Washington, D.C. and San Diego, California.

Contents

Welcoming Remarks at the Academic Tribute to Kenneth Arrow


Life and work

Douglas Bernheim studied from 1975 to 1979 at Harvard University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts (AB), summa cum laude. In 1982, he received his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he was an assistant professor (1982–1987) and associate professor (1987–1988) at Stanford University. Bernheim moved to Northwestern University to serve as the Harold J. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management (1988–1990) and later moved to Princeton University (1990–1994) to serve as the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy. Since 1994 he has worked again at Stanford University: From 1994 to 2005 as the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor and since 2005 as the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics. Since 1986, he has also conducted research for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Bernheim works in the fields of finance, industrial organization, political economy, behavioral economics, and microeconomics.

Awards and affiliations

  • 1978 Phi Beta Kappa
  • 1979 John H. Williams Prize (for best graduate in economics)
  • 1991 Elected Fellow, Econometric Society
  • 1997 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001–2002 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
  • 2001–2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
  • Articles

  • Bernheim, Douglas; Rangel, Antonio (2008). "Behavioural public economics". The New Palgrave Journal of Economics (2): 454. ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0119 
  • Bernheim, Douglas (2010). "Behavioral Welfare Economics". Panoeconomicus (1) 
  • The Vanishing Nest Egg. Reflections on Saving in America. Twentieth Century Fund/Priority Press, New York 1991, ISBN 0-87078-313-0
  • mit J. B. Shoven (Hrsg.): National Saving and Economic Performance. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 0-226-04404-1
  • References

    Douglas Bernheim Wikipedia