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{{short description|American economist}}
{{Infobox economist
| name = Matthew Rabin
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| field = [[Behavioral economics]], [[Game theory]]
| doctoral_advisor= [[Drew Fudenberg]]<ref>[http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/drewf/students Drew Fudenberg Students]</ref>
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| doctoral_students=[[Jeffrey C. Ely]]<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~jel292/cv-current.pdf |title= Ely's Curriculum Vitae |
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| awards = [[John Bates Clark Medal]]<br>[[John von Neumann Award]]
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'''Matthew Joel Rabin''' (born December 27, 1963) is the Pershing Square Professor of [[Behavioral economics|Behavioral Economics]] in the Harvard Economics Department and [[Harvard Business School]]. Rabin's research focuses primarily on incorporating psychologically more realistic assumptions into empirically applicable formal economic theory. His topics of interest include errors in statistical reasoning and the evolution of beliefs, effects of choice context on exhibited preferences, reference-dependent preferences, and errors people make in inference in market and learning settings.<ref name=harvard>{{cite web|title=Matthew Rabin - Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics|url=http://scholar.harvard.edu/rabin/home|publisher=Harvard University|
==Background==
Rabin was the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley Economics Department for 25 years before moving to Harvard.<ref name=harvard/><ref>{{cite web|title=Matthew Rabin|url=http://econ.berkeley.edu/faculty/843|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|
His research is directed, among other economic fields, towards [[behavioral finance]] and [[behavioral economics]]. Rabin works on the economics of individual self-control problems, reference-dependent preferences, fairness motives and mistakes in probabilistic reasoning. He developed [[Rabin fairness]] as a model to account for fairness in social preferences. In 2001 he was awarded the [[John Bates Clark Medal]] by the [[American Economic Association]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Matthew Rabin John Bates Clark Medalist 2001|url=http://www.aeaweb.org/PDF_files/Bios/Rabin_Bio_2001.pdf|publisher=AEA|
==References==
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