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The Laureates Daniel Kahneman http://www.princeton.edu/~psych/PsychSite/fac_kahneman.html Vernon L. Smith http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/ facultybios/smith.html   Behavioral and Experimental Economics Kagel, J.H. and A.E. Roth, (red.), “Handbook of Experimental economics”, Princeton University Press, 1995. Kahneman, D. and A. Tversky (1979), “Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk”, Econometrica 47, 263-291. Kahneman, D. and A. Tversky (red.), “Choices, Values and…

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Biographical

I was born in Gary, Indiana, at the time, a major steel town on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, on February 9, 1943. Both of my parents were born within six miles of Gary, early in the century, and continued to live in the area until 1997. I sometimes thought that my peregrinations made…

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Biographical

Getting startedI was born during the second World War in Montclair New Jersey. This was more or less an accident (the location that is). My father was based in Ottawa as a member of the War Time Prices and Trades Board, the Canadian version of wartime price controls. That work entailed frequent trips to Washington…

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Press release

German 10 Oktober 2001 hat beschlossen, den von der Schwedischen Reichsbank in Erinnerung an Alfred Nobel gestifteten Preis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften des Jahres 2001 gemeinsam zu verleihen an George A. Akerlof University of California at Berkeley, USA, A. Michael Spence Stanford University, USA, und Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University, USA, „für ihre Analyse von Märkten mit…

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