Irrational Economist_ Making Decisions in a Dangerous World - Erwann Michel-Kerjan [157]
Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University
Geoffrey Heal is Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility, professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, and professor of Public and International Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs. He received his PhD in physics and economics at Cambridge University, where he obtained a First Class Honors degree and a doctorate, and then taught at Cambridge, Stanford, Yale, and Princeton. Professor Heal’s research fields include the securitization of catastrophic risks and analysis of the systemic risks associated with the growth of derivative markets as well as the interaction between society and its natural resource base. The latter agenda focuses, in part, on the extent to which market mechanisms can be instrumental in environmental conservation. His recent books include Valuing the Future (Columbia University Press, 2000), Nature and the Marketplace (Island Press, 2000), Topological Social Choice (Springer Verlag), Sustainability: Dynamics and Uncertainty (Klewer, 1998), and Environmental Markets (Columbia University Press, 2000). He has published 8 other books and over 150 articles. Professor Heal is a member of the Pew Oceans Commission, a director of the Union of Concerned Scientists (www.ucsusa.org), a director of the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and chair of the National Academy/National Research Council’s Committee on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services.
Robin M. Hogarth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Robin Hogarth is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He was formerly the Wallace W. Booth Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, where he served as deputy dean from 1993 to 1998. He earned his MBA from INSEAD and his PhD from the University of Chicago. His research has focused mainly on the psychology of judgment and decision making, and he has published several books, including Judgment and Choice, 2nd ed. (Wiley, 1987) and Educating Intuition (University of Chicago, 2001), as well as numerous articles in leading professional journals (e.g., Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Management Science, the Journal of the American Statistical Association , and the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty). He is a past president of both the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the European Association for Decision Making. His most recent book, Dance with Chance: Making Luck Work for You, written with Spyros Makridakis and Anil Gaba, was published by Oneworld in 2009. In June 2007, Hogarth was awarded the degree of “doctor honoris causa” by the University of Lausanne.
Dwight M. Jaffee, University of California at Berkeley
Dwight Jaffee is the Willis Booth Professor of Banking, Finance, and Real Estate at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the Haas School’s Finance and Real Estate groups, and co-chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics. He received his doctorate from the MIT. His primary areas of research include real estate finance (especially mortgage-backed securitization and government-sponsored enterprises) and insurance (especially earthquake, terrorism, and auto). He recently co-authored a book titled Globalization and a High-Tech Economy: California, the U.S., and Beyond (Klewer Academic Publishers, 2004). Professor Jaffee has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore and has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He has also served in numerous advisory roles for the World Bank, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Ralph L. Keeney, Duke University
Ralph Keeney is Research Professor