Matthew Rabin

Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics

Fields: Psychology and Economics, Game Theory

Research interests: Sundry topics in non-financial non-evolutionary psychological economics; cheap talk; peak-load pricing during hyperinflation

Matthew Rabin is the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics. He received his PhD from MIT in 1989, the same year he joined the Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor. He was promoted to full professor in 1999. He also is director of the Program in Psychological Economics. Professor Rabin is a member of the Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable and of the Program Committee, 8th World Congress of the Econometric Society. In 2000-2001 he held a visiting position at the London School of Economics as BP Amoco-LSE Centennial Professor, and in 2004 he was Taussig Research Professor at Harvard.

Professor Rabin's honors include Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow; Graduate Economics Association, Outstanding Teaching Award; MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2001-2005); Econometric Society Fellow; John Bates Clark Medal from American Economic Association; Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and the Joln von Neumann Award, Laszlo Rajk College, Budapest.