Erik Eyster
· Department Chair, Professor of EconomicsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · Economics
Active 1999–2023
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About
Erik Eyster is the Department Chair and a Professor of Economics at UC Santa Barbara. His research focuses on Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics, and Experimental Economics. As a key member of the Theory and Experiment Consortium, he contributes to advancing understanding in these areas, emphasizing the intersection of economic behavior and experimental methods.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Medicine
- Psychology
- Mathematics
- Economics
Selected publications
Financial Markets Where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices
The Journal of Finance · 2018-10-08 · 156 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingABSTRACT We model a financial market where some traders of a risky asset do not fully appreciate what prices convey about others' private information. Markets comprising solely such “cursed” traders generate more trade than those comprising solely rationals. Because rationals arbitrage away distortions caused by cursed traders, mixed markets can generate even more trade. Per‐trader volume in cursed markets increases with market size; volume may instead disappear when traders infer others' inform…
Handbook of behavioral economics · 2018-12-27 · 31 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingImproving children's food choices: Experimental evidence from the field
European Economic Review · 2023 · 4 citations
We present a field experiment to study the effects of different information conditions on food choices of 282 children in elementary schools. Previous interventions have typically paid participants for healthy eating, but this often may not be feasible. We introduce a system where food items are graded based on their nutritional value, involving parents or classmates as change agents by providing them with information regarding food choices. We find parents’ involvement in the decision process t…
Improving Healthy Eating in Children: Experimental Evidence
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021-01-01 · 2 citations
articleOpen accessImproving Healthy Eating in Children: Experimental Evidence
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021-01-01 · 2 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 43 shared
Matthew Rabin
Harvard University
- 32 shared
Ernesto Dal Bó
- 29 shared
Pedro Dal Bó
John Brown University
- 26 shared
Navin Kartik
- 26 shared
Andrea Galeotti
- 10 shared
Kristóf Madarász
Laser Scan Engineering (United Kingdom)
- 10 shared
Pascal Michaillat
University of California, Santa Cruz
- 6 shared
Georg Weizsäcker
German Institute for Economic Research
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