Kay-Yut Chen | |
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| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Behavioral operations research,Experimental economics,Consumer behaviour |
| Institutions | HP Labs Yahoo! Labs University of Texas at Arlington |
| Thesis | The Strategic Behavior of Rational Novices (1994) |
| Doctoral advisors | John O. Ledyard Charles Plott |
Kay-Yut Chen is anexperimental economist best known for pioneering the application of behavioral economics to business management.[1] The experimental economics lab he founded at HP Labs was the first such lab in any company.[2] His work at HP Labs has been featured inNewsweek, theWall Street Journal, andScientific American.[3][4][5]
Chen is co-author of a book about the business applications ofbehavioral economics,Secrets of the Moneylab, co-authored with journalist Marina Krakovsky, and published by Portfolio/Penguin in 2010.[6] Nobel laureateGeorge Akerlof wrote the foreword to the book.[7]
He has also worked as principal research scientist atYahoo! Labs.[8]
He earned his PhD in economics fromCalifornia Institute of Technology in 1994, where his research advisors were John Ledyard andCharles Plott.[9] In 1992 he was an Alfred P. Sloan fellow.
He is currently a professor at theUniversity of Texas at Arlington.[10]
