Botond Koszegi
Visiting Fellow, April 16–22, 2011
Professor of Economics, University of California Berkeley
Botond Közegi’s research interests include economics and psychology and individual decisionmaking. Recent papers include “Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market” (2010, American Economic Review); “Utility from Anticipation and Personal Equilibrium,” (2010, Economic Theory); “Reference-Dependent Consumption Plans" (2009, American Economic Review); and “Futile Attempts at Self-Control (2009, Journal of the European Economic Association).
He joined the faculty at Berkeley as an assistant professor in 2000, and received a Hellman Family Faculty Fund award there. Previously he received Harvard's Bok Center Award for Excellence in Teaching, an MIT Economics Fellowship, an NBER Aging Fellowship, and a Sloan Dissertation Fellowship.
He earned his doctorate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology