Kay-Yut Chen is an experimental economist best known for pioneering the application of behavioral economics to business management.[1] The experimental economics lab he founded at HP Labs was the first such lab in any company.[2] His work at HP Labs has been featured in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and Scientific American.[3][4][5]
Kay-Yut Chen | |
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| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Behavioral operations research, Experimental economics, Consumer behaviour |
| Institutions | HP Labs Yahoo! Labs University of Texas at Arlington |
| Thesis | The Strategic Behavior of Rational Novices (1994) |
| Doctoral advisors | John O. Ledyard Charles Plott |
Chen is co-author of a book about the business applications of behavioral economics, Secrets of the Moneylab, co-authored with journalist Marina Krakovsky, and published by Portfolio/Penguin in 2010.[6] Nobel laureate George Akerlof wrote the foreword to the book.[7]
He has also worked as principal research scientist at Yahoo! Labs.[8]
He earned his PhD in economics from California Institute of Technology in 1994, where his research advisors were John Ledyard and Charles Plott.[9] In 1992 he was an Alfred P. Sloan fellow.
He is currently a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.[10]
References
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- ^ "Kay-Yut Chen". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ^ "A New 'Wind Tunnel' For Companies". Newsweek. 2003-10-05. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ^ Journal, Joel Rosenblatt Staff Reporter of The Wall Street (2000-10-02). "Moving Past Rats: More Economists Study Behavior in Online Experiments". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ^ Krakovsky, Marina (2006). "Experiments at Work". Scientific American. 294 (3): 36–38. Bibcode:2006SciAm.294c..36K. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0306-36. PMID 16502609.
- ^ Secrets of the Moneylab by Kay-Yut Chen, Marina Krakovsky | PenguinRandomHouse.com.
- ^ "George Akerlof CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-10.
- ^ "Information Systems and Operations Management >> College of Business | UTA | University of Arlington Texas". wweb.uta.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ^ "Kay-Yut Chen - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
- ^ "Information Systems and Operations Management >> College of Business | UTA | University of Arlington Texas". wweb.uta.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-15.