CONTRIBUTORS
Richard H. Thaleris the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, Fi-
nance, and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago’s Graduate
School of Business, where he is the director of the Center for Decision Re-
search. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic
Research, where he codirects the behavioral economics project. Thaler is
considered one of the pioneers in the attempt to fill the gap between psy-
chology and economics. Among the problems he has worked on are self
control, savings, mental accounting, fairness, the endowment effect, and
behavioral finance. He is the author of the books The Winner’s Curse and
Quasi Rational Economics, and is an editor of the collection Advances in
Behavioral Finance. He writes a series of articles in the Journal of Econom-
ics Perspectivesunder the heading “Anomalies.”
Brad M. Barberis a Professor of Finance at the UC-Davis, Graduate School
of Management. His recent research focuses on analyst recommendations
and investor psychology. His research has been covered extensively in the
popular press, including Business Week, Time, The Wall Street Journal,
ABC News, NBC Nightly News, CNN, CNNfn, and CNBC. Professor Bar-
ber has written numerous scholarly articles, which have appeared in many
publications including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Eco-
nomics, Review of Financial Studies Journal of Political Economy, Quar-
terly Journal of Economics, American Sociological Review, Journal of
Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Financial Analyst Journal. He
is a regular speaker at academic and practitioner conferences. He currently
serves on the Investment Advisory Committees for Mercer Global Advisors
and the Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent Sys-
tem Operator. Professor Barber received his Ph.D. in finance from the Uni-
versity of Chicago in 1991. He also received an MBA from the University
of Chicago and a BS in economics from the University of Illinois. At UC-
Davis, he teaches courses in investment analysis and corporate financial
policy.
Nicholas Barberisis Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Manage-
ment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic
Research. His research focuses primarily on behavioral finance and, in par-
ticular, on psychology-based models of investor preferences and investor
beliefs. He has received the FAME Prize for Research, the Paul A. Samuel-
son Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security,
as well as several teaching awards. Prior to his arrival at the Yale School of
Management, he taught for many years at the University of Chicago’s