Alex O. Imas
Behavioral economist and professor
Alex Imas is a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies how people make choices and learn from information.
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About Alex O. Imas
Alex Imas holds the Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz professorship in Behavioral Science, Economics and Applied AI at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has taught Negotiations and Behavioral Economics there. He was born in Bender, Moldova. His research in behavioral economics looks at finance, discrimination, applied AI, decisions made under uncertainty, and learning from information. He works with lab and field experiments, observational data and theoretical models. He received a 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He also works as an associate editor for the Journal of the European Economic Association. The Winner's Curse is his book in the BookBits catalog.