MEA 2005 Annual Conference
About the Speakers
John Dickhaut is the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Accounting at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Dickhaut is currently researching the role of specific brain mechanisms that occur in the English Auction, as well as mechanisms underlying choice under uncertainty. His economic interests include behavioral responses to information systems, the role of information in coordinating economic choice and the role of information in evolutionary environments. He has been published multiple times in Games and Economic Behavior and Economic Theory for his work on "Price Formation in Double Auctions" and "Trust, Reciprocity and Social History." Dickhaut received his B.A. from Duke in English and his Doctorate from the Ohio State University in Accounting.
David Laibson is professor of economics at Harvard University. His research focuses on macroeconomics, intertemporal choice, experimental economics and neuroeconomics. He has been published in Economic Journal, Econometrica, and Science. Laibson has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the European Economics Association and The Q.R. Journals of Macroeconomics, and organized the Russell Sage Foundations Behavior Economics Summer School. His long list of awards and honors includes the National Institutes of Health Center Grant, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award, Certificate of Excellence. Laibson received his A.B. in economics from Harvard University and his Doctorate in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Aldo Rustichini is professor of economics at the University of Minnesota. Past teaching positions include the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Tilburg University and Boston University. His research interests include Decision Theory, Game Theory, General Equilibrium Theory, and Neuroscience and Economics. He currently serves as referee for several top economic publications, including Econometrica and Journal of Economic Theory. He previously served as associate editor of Journal of Economic Theory and Journal of Mathematical Economics. He has been published numerous times in the publications Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory and Games and Economic Behavior. Rustichini received his Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy from the University of Florence and his Doctorate of Mathematics from the University of Minnesota.
Nancy Stokey is the current Frederick Henry Prince Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. In the past she has served as a visiting scholar to the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Research Department and the Harold L. Stuart Professor of Managerial Economics at the Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She has also served as co-editor of Econometrica and associate editor of such economic publications as The Journal of Economic Growth, Games and Behavior, Econometrica and The Journal of Economic Theory. Stokey was recently selected among 72 other top scientists and engineers in the country to the National Academy of Sciences. She was also selected to participate in the Copenhagen Consensus in 2004, in which eight renown economists employed cost-benefit analysis to prioritize solutions to serious world problems. Stokey received her B.A. in economics from Pennsylvania State University and her Doctorate in Philosophy of Economics from Harvard University.