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According to Wikipedia, Richard H. Thaler is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2015, Thaler was president of the American Economic Association.

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Does the Stock Market Overreact (1985) (6981)
Toward a positive theory of consumer choice (1980) (5225)
Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice (2008) (4401)
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008) (4206)
Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem (1990) (3846)
Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias (1991) (3642)
Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking: Entitlements in the Market (1986) (3300)
Mental accounting matters (1999) (2896)
Myopic Loss Aversion and the Equity Premium Puzzle (1993) (2618)
A Survey of Behavioral Finance (2002) (2589)
An Economic Theory of Self-Control (1977) (2466)
Further Evidence On Investor Overreaction and Stock Market Seasonality (1987) (2426)
Save More Tomorrow™: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving (2004) (2374)
Fairness and the Assumptions of Economics (1986) (2330)
Gambling with the house money and trying to break even: the effects of prior outcomes on risky choice (1990) (2300)
Some empirical evidence on dynamic inconsistency (1981) (2153)
Investor Sentiment and the Closed-End Fund Puzzle (1990) (1965)
The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias: Anomalies. (1991) (1641)
THE BEHAVIORAL LIFE‐CYCLE HYPOTHESIS (1988) (1417)
Naive Diversification Strategies in Defined Contribution Saving Plans (2001) (1383)
Libertarian Paternalism is Not an Oxymoron (2003) (1342)
A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics (1998) (1273)
Anomalies: Ultimatums, Dictators and Manners (1995) (1190)
Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers: One Day at a Time (1997) (1177)
Price Reactions to Dividend Initiations and Omissions: Overreaction or Drift? (1994) (1113)
The Effect of Myopia and Loss Aversion on Risk Taking: An Experimental Test (1997) (1057)
Anomalies: Foreign Exchange (1990) (928)
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (2015) (884)
Do Changes in Dividends Signal the Future or the Past (1997) (865)
Anomalies: Risk Aversion (2001) (857)
The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life (1991) (855)
Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior (2007) (831)
Do Security Analysts Overreact (1990) (765)
Financial Decision-Making in Markets and Firms: A Behavioral Perspective (1994) (749)
Saving, Fungibility, and Mental Accounts (1990) (744)
Window Dressing by Pension Fund Managers (1991) (677)
Anomalies Parimutuel Betting Markets: Racetracks and Lotteries (1988) (625)
Anomalies: Utility Maximization and Experienced Utility (2005) (625)
Chapter 18 A survey of behavioral finance (2003) (589)
Anomalies: Intertemporal Choice (1989) (582)
The Value of Saving a Life: Evidence from the Labor Market (1976) (582)
The Ultimatum Game (1988) (565)
The Flypaper Effect (1995) (555)
Advances in behavioral finance (1995) (529)
Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles, and Stock Market Participation: A Case for Narrow Framing (2006) (527)
Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future (2016) (497)
Should Governments Invest More in Nudging? (2017) (490)
Anomalies: The Winner's Curse (1988) (482)
Risk Aversion Or Myopia? Choices in Repeated Gambles and Retirement Investments (1999) (476)
The End of Behavioral Finance (1999) (435)
Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show (2008) (425)
Quasi Rational Economics (1991) (416)
Anomalies: Preference Reversals (1990) (387)
Decision Making and Problem Solving (1987) (375)
Dividend Changes Do Not Signal Changes in Future Profitability (2003) (368)
Design Choices in Privatized Social-Security Systems: Learning from the Swedish Experience (2004) (355)
Psychology and Savings Policies (1994) (331)
How Much is Investor Autonomy Worth? (2001) (318)
Anomalies: The January Effect (1987) (302)
Ultimatums, Dictators and Manners (2007) (302)
A note on the value of crime control: Evidence from the property market (1978) (282)
The Relevance of Quasi Rationality in Competitive Markets: Reply (1985) (269)
Anomalies: The Law of One Price in Financial Markets (2003) (262)
Behavioral Economics and the Retirement Savings Crisis (2013) (253)
Anomalies: A Mean-Reverting Walk Down Wall Street (1989) (232)
Anomalies: The Equity Premium Puzzle (1997) (231)
Anomalies: Saving, Fungibility, and Mental Accounts (2016) (194)
Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking (1986) (193)
Seasonal Movements in Security Prices II: Weekend, Holiday, Turn of the Month, and Intraday Effects (1987) (183)
Probabilistic Insurance (1997) (180)
The Endowment Effect and Repeated Market Trials: Is the Vickrey Auction Demand Revealing? (2001) (168)
From Cashews to Nudges: The Evolution of Behavioral Economics (2018) (163)
Nudge, not sludge (2018) (163)
Closed End Mutual Funds (1990) (163)
Laboratory experimentation in economics: The psychology of choice and the assumptions of economics (1987) (157)
Economic Analysis and the Psychology of Utility: Applications to Compensation Policy (1991) (152)
Chapter 13 Financial decision-making in markets and firms: A behavioral perspective (1995) (148)
Caveat Compounder: A Warning about Using the Daily CRSP Equal‐Weighted Index to Compute Long‐Run Excess Returns (1998) (145)
Anomalies: Interindustry Wage Differentials (1989) (131)
The Loser's Curse: Decision Making and Market Efficiency in the National Football League Draft (2013) (128)
Nominal Share Price Puzzle (2009) (128)
Anomalies: The Flypaper Effect (2016) (126)
Chapter 13. Investor Psychology and Security Market Under- and Overreaction (2005) (121)
Split or Steal? Cooperative Behavior When the Stakes Are Large (2011) (121)
Can the Market Add and Subtract? Mispricing in Tech Stock Carve‐outs (2003) (118)
Advances in Behavioral Finance, Volume II (2005) (102)
Mental Accounting, Saving, and Self-Control (2011) (99)
Smarter information, Smarter Consumers (2013) (98)
Transaction Utility Theory (1983) (98)
Invest now, drink later, spend never: On the mental accounting of delayed consumption (2006) (90)
The Law and Economics of Company Stock in 401(k) Plans (2007) (79)
Choice Architecture (2010) (76)
Interindustry Wage Differentials (1989) (65)
Behavioral Economics (2000) (63)
The Psychology and Economics Conference Handbook: Comments on Simon, on Einhorn and Hogarth, and on Tversky and Kahneman (1986) (60)
Choice Architecture and Retirement Saving Plans (2007) (57)
Goals-based Investing : Integrating Traditional and Behavioral Finance (2003) (56)
An econometric analysis of property crime: Interaction between police and criminals (1977) (54)
Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles and the Equity Premium (2003) (54)
Helping Consumers Know Themselves (2011) (53)
Irving Fisher: Modern Behavioral Economist (1997) (52)
Invest Now, Drink Later, Spend Never: The Mental Accounting of Delayed Consumption (2006) (49)
When Nudges are Forever: Inertia in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan (2018) (48)
The Loser's Curse: Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League Draft - Electronic Appendix (2010) (39)
Illusions and Mirages in Public Policy (1985) (38)
The Psychology and Economics Conference Handbook: Comments (1986) (36)
In Honor of Matthew Rabin: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal (2003) (33)
The Endowment Effect: Evidence of Losses Valued More than Gains (2008) (32)
Company Stock, Market Rationality, and Legal Reform (2004) (31)
College and University Endowment Funds (1994) (31)
The Behavioral Economics of Retirement Savings Behavior (2007) (28)
The Nominal Price Puzzle (2007) (27)
Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League (2005) (26)
Chapter 16. Naive Diversification Strategies in Defined Contribution Savings Plans (2005) (23)
The Equity Premium Puzzle (2001) (22)
Commentary - Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice: Anatomy of a Failure (2008) (22)
The Winner s Curse (2016) (20)
Misbehaving : how economics became behavioural (2015) (19)
Discounting and Fiscal Constraints: Why Discounting Is Always Right (1979) (19)
Theories and Tropes: A Reply to Posner and Kelman (1998) (18)
Standing United or Falling Divided? High Stakes Bargaining in a TV Game Show (2015) (18)
STICKY WAGES AND IMPLICIT CONTRACTS: A TRANSACTIONAL APPROACH (1979) (18)
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2017 (2018) (17)
Response [Anomalies: Risk Aversion] (2002) (17)
EQUITY RISK PREMIUM FORUM (2002) (15)
Heuristics and Biases: Do Analysts Overreact? (2002) (15)
The Changing Face of World Cities (2017) (15)
Private Equity at Work (2017) (14)
Chapter 25. Choice Architecture (2013) (14)
Market Efficiency and Rationality: The Peculiar Case of Baseball (2004) (14)
Annuity Puzzles (2011) (13)
The Loser's Curse: Decision Making & Market Efficiency in the National Football League Draft (2012) (13)
Maximization and self-control (1981) (12)
Amomalies: The January Effect (2016) (11)
An Experiment Evaluating the Impact of Large-Scale, High-Payoff Vaccine Regret Lotteries (2021) (10)
Chapter 4. Can the Market Add and Subtract? Mispricing in Tech Stock Carve-outs (2005) (9)
Chapter 9. Evidence on the Characteristics of Cross-sectional Variation in Stock Returns (2005) (9)
Nudges and choice architecture in organizations: New frontiers (2020) (9)
Public policy toward life saving: should consumer preferences rule? (1982) (9)
Chapter 5. Valuation Ratios and the Long-run Stock Market Outlook: An Update (2005) (9)
Behavioral Law and Economics: Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem (2000) (8)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Mental Accounting, Saving, and Self-Control (2004) (8)
What’s next for nudging and choice architecture? (2020) (8)
Behavioral Economics, Public Policy, and Paternalism (2020) (8)
Chapter 14. A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading, and Overreaction in Asset Markets (2005) (8)
Sudden-Death Aversion: Avoiding Superior Options Because They Feel Riskier (2018) (7)
CHAPTER NINETEEN. Labor Supply of New York City Cab Drivers: One Day at a Time (2004) (6)
Experimenting with Social Norms (2014) (6)
Preferences and Well-Being: “Preferences, Paternalism, and Liberty” (2006) (6)
CHAPTER TWO. Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem (2004) (5)
A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine lotteries (2022) (4)
Judgement And Decision Making Under Uncertainty: What Economists Can Learn From Psychology (1980) (4)
A NEW COMPUTATIONAL METHOD FOR TRANSIENT HEAT CONDUCTION IN ARBITRARILY SHAPED REGIONS (1970) (4)
Public Policy Toward Life Saving: Maximize Lives Saved vs. Consumer Sovereignty (1980) (4)
Running head: RECONCILING MOOD CONGRUENCY AND MOOD REGULATION Reconciling Mood Congruency and Mood Regulation: The Role of Psychological Distance (2004) (4)
Concession Aversion: A Story of Loss and Betrayal (1999) (3)
FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION FOR 2009 (2009) (3)
Nashville in the New Millennium (2017) (3)
The Construction of Preference: Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron (2006) (3)
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics (2017) (2)
Interpreting α-rationality in hierarchical games (1980) (2)
CHAPTER EIGHT. Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking: Entitlements in the Market (2004) (2)
AN INVERSE FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY (1974) (2)
Chapter 12. A Model of Investor Sentiment (2005) (2)
Asymmetric games and the endowment effect (1984) (2)
Risk Management and Insurance Industry Perspective on Cosmic Hazards (2014) (2)
A 500,000-Person Experiment Evaluating the Impact of Geographically-Targeted, High-Payoff Vaccine Lotteries (2021) (2)
Procrastination of Enjoyable (2010) (2)
Abstract and reviewProbabilistic insurance (1998) (1)
Chapter 14. Choice Architecture and Retirement Saving Plans (2013) (1)
Yes, Closed-End Fund Discounts Are a Sentiment Index (1993) (1)
Are Investors R eluctant to R ealize Their Losses? (2001) (1)
somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science." (1987) (1)
Theoretical Foundations (2002) (1)
A Non-libertarian Paterna List's Reaction to " Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron " (2003) (1)
Chapter 18. Earnings Management to Exceed Thresholds (2005) (1)
CHAPTER THREE. Mental Accounting Matters (2004) (1)
Chapter 19. Managerial Optimism and Corporate Finance (2005) (1)
Chapter 6. Myopic Loss Aversion and the Equity Premium Puzzle (2005) (1)
How to make faculty service demands more equitable ( opinion ) (2018) (1)
One nudge for hand hygiene (2021) (1)
Empirical estimates of loss aversion are typically in the neighborhood of 2 , meaning that the disutility of giving something up is twice as great as the utility of acquiring it [ (2007) (0)
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND CONSUMER REGULATION^ Helping Consumers Know Themselves (2016) (0)
A Balanced Perspective on Economic Psychology. (1982) (0)
American Economic Association Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking : Entitlements in the Market Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)
Chapter 10. Momentum (2005) (0)
TEN-YEAR OUTLOOK ON RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES WORKING GROUP ON INFORMATION AND DECISION MAKING (1985) (0)
BEHA VIORAL APPROACH TO LAW & ECONOMICS 2 . Prescriptions (2007) (0)
Concession Aversion : A Case of Betrayal and Loss 15 : 25-15 : 50 (2011) (0)
Precautionary Savings and Entrepreneurship (2005) (0)
“Preferences, Paternalism, and Liberty” (2006) (0)
Richard Thaler ’ s “ Misbehaving ” and Implications for Investors and Advisors June 23 , 2015 by (2015) (0)
List of Contributors (2005) (0)
Direct regulation for the public’s health and safety (2018) (0)
Words from the Wise: An Interview with Richard Thaler (2020) (0)
List of Contributors (2005) (0)
Review of Nudge: The Final Edition Paperback – (2022) (0)
American Economic Association Anomalies : Utility Maximization and Experienced Utility (2008) (0)
Testing Validity of Using Sample Mean in Studies of Behavioral Facts (2011) (0)
Replication data for: Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show (2019) (0)
Normative Feelings Produced by Market Processes (2000) (0)
Price Ten Cents Keogh Wins State Pension See Page 2 City Manager On Stand As (0)
Method and contact points monitoring device (1980) (0)
Papers: A Discussion of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the TwentyFirst Century (2015) (0)
The new frontiers of AI in the arena of behavioral economics (2020) (0)
Should Governments Invest More in Nudging ? 1043 (2017) (0)
Economía del comportamiento: pasado, presente y futuro (Behavioral Economics: Past, Present, and Future) (2018) (0)
Konow : A Positive Analysis of Justice Theories 1189 (2004) (0)
Should Governments Invest More in Nudging? Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2017) (0)
6. Direct Regulation for the Public’s Health and Safety (2019) (0)
Laws of Fear: Libertarian Paternalism (2005) (0)
Exploiting the Shame Meter (2008) (0)
Chapter 3. How Are Stock Prices Affected by the Location of Trade (2005) (0)
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. Myopic Loss-Aversion and the Equity Premium Puzzle (2004) (0)
Myopic Loss Aversion in Investment Behavior In 1997 (2016) (0)

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