Curriculum Vitae

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Office Mailing Address:
Box 208200
135 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06520-8200
E-mail address: keith.chen@yale.edu
Office Phone:
203 432-6049
Office Fax: 203 432-6974

Education:
   Bachelors of Science with honors in Mathematics; Stanford University, 1998
      Thesis: Non-Archimedean Probabilities and the Foundations of Rationality

   Ph.D. Harvard University Department of Economics, 2003
      Thesis: Bargaining Behind Bars: Peer and Strategic Interactions in Theory and Data

Current Position:
   Associate Professor of Economics: Yale School of Management, Cowles Foundation, & Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Research Fields:
   Primary Fields: Behavioral & Experimental Economics and Applied Microeconomics
   Secondary Fields: The Micro-foundations of Preferences and Biases

Teaching Fields:
   Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics, Bargaining and Negotiations

Grants and Awards:
   2008: American Law and Economics Review Distinguished Article Prize of 2008
   2006-present: National Science Foundation research grant
   2006-2007: Behavioral economics research grant, Russell Sage Foundation
   2005-2007: Neuroeconomics; Whitebox Advisors Research Grant, Yale ICF, Behavioral Finance Initiative
   2004-2006: Capuchin Research; Whitebox Advisors Research Grant, Yale ICF, Behavioral Finance Initiative
   2004: Behavioral Economics Field-Study Research Grant, Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Research, Professional, and Other Activities:
   2004-present: Referee for the:
      American Economic Review, American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Quarterly Journal of Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.
   2003-present: Research Associate, Cowles Foundation
   1999-2003: Resident Tutor of economics in Cabot House, Harvard University
   1996-98: Stanford University Psychology Department,
      Primary Researcher for cross-cultural social justice survey
   1996-98: Raced on the national-championship Stanford cycling team

Teaching Experience:
   2005-present: Behavioral Economics and Strategy; Yale School of Management
   2004-present: Negotiating Strategy; Yale School of Management
   2003-present: Economic Analysis; Core course, Yale School of Management
   2000-02: Preparatory math course for graduate students, Harvard Department of Economics
   2000-02: Preparatory math course for graduate students, Harvard Business School

External Presentations, 2004-Present:
   SQA Neurofinance Conference (5-30-08)
   American Bar Association, Behavioral Economics and Ethical Decision Making (5-29-08)

   Mind, Brain, and Society Conference, Todai-Yale Universities (4-25-08)
   Cornell University, Economics Department Seminar (4-11-08)
   The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (4-1-08)
   Cornell University, Behavioral Economics and Decision Research Workshop (1-29-08)
   Cornell University, Behavioral Economics Seminar (10-23-07)
   Yale School of Public Health (9-17-07)
   NBER Law and Economics Summer Institute (7-26-07)
   Yale ISPS (4-24-07)
   Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (4-03-07)
   Wesleyan University, Economics Seminar (10-11-06)
   New York University, IO Day (9-15-06)
   University of California Berkeley, Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy (6-29-06)
   Carnegie Mellon Decision Sciences Seminar (2-28-06)
   Wharton Decision Processes Seminar (11-21-05)
   University of California Berkeley, Psychology and Economics Seminar (10-18-05)
   University of Chicago, Applications of Economics Workshop (4-11-05)
   Yale Law School Law, Economics and Organizations Seminar (4-7-05)
   University of Connecticut, Anthropology Seminar (2-10-05)
   Brown, Applied-Microeconomics Seminar (9-23-04)
   Caltech, Neuroscience Seminar (5-13-04)
   University of California San Diego, Applied-Microeconomics Seminar (5-12-04)

Papers:
   For my latest papers, abstracts, and drafts, please see my Papers page.