B. Douglas Bernheim

Research Interest: Public finance, industrial organization, political economy, behavioral economics, microeconomic theory.
Current Research: Behavioral welfare economics; models of decision making with cognitive limitations, with applications to addiction, saving, marketing, and other behavior; the theory of cheating within imperfect cartels; collective decision-making in majoritarian institutions.

B. Douglas Bernheim is the Edward Ames Edmunds Professor of Economics and the incoming Chair of the Economics Department at Stanford University. He is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

His research is in the fields of public economics, industrial organization, political economy, behavioral economics, and microeconomic theory. He has authored more than 125 publications, including 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, four books, and many other professional and academic publications. He holds multiple distinctions, including John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, and Econometric Society Fellow. He is also listed in Global Competition Review's International Who's Who of Competition Economists.

Dr. Bernheim earned his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his A.B. from Harvard University.