Botond Kőszegi

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Dec 2017- University Professor, Central European University
• Aug 2012-Dec 2017 Professor, Central European University
• Jul 2010-Jun 2013 Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Jul 2006-Jun 2010 Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Sep 2002-May 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jul 2000-Jun 2006 Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

EDUCATION:

• 1996-2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Economics
• 1992-1996 Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics

GRANTS:

• 2018-2023 ERC Advanced Grant #788918, “Topics in Behavioral”
• 2012-2018 ERC Starting Grant #313341, “Behavioral-Economics Theory”
• 2007-2010 NSF Grant SES-0648659, “Economic Models and Applications of Reference-Dependent Utility” (joint with Matthew Rabin)
• 2003-2004 Hellman Family Faculty Fund
• 1999 Sloan Dissertation Fellowship
• 1998-1999 NBER Aging Fellowship

INTERNATIONAL HONORS:

• 2015 Yrjö Jahnsson Award (a biennial award for the best economist in Europe under the age of 45)
• 2015 Member of Academia Europaea
• 2008 Hicks-Tinbergen Medal, for the best paper published in the Journal of the European Economic Association in the years 2006/2007

NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY HONORS:

• 2018 Best Teacher Award, Central European University
• 2016 Honorary Doctorate, Corvinus University of Budapest
• 2016 Appointed Egyetemi Tanár by the President of Hungary
• 2015 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA Doktora)
• 2015 Award for Outstanding Research, Central European University
• 2014 Best Teacher Award, Central European University
• 2013 Best Teacher Award, Central European University
• 2010 Best Mentor Award, UC Berkeley
• 2007 UC Berkeley Intramural Soccer champion (as member of team Slutsky)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS & FORTHCOMING PAPERS:

• Fragile Self-Esteem (joint with George Loewenstein and Takeshi Murooka), accepted, Review of Economic Studies
• Browsing versus Studying: A Pro-Market Case for Regulation (joint with Paul Heidhues and Johannes Johnen), Review of Economic Studies (2021), 88(2), pp. 708-729.
• Convergence in Models of Misspecified Learning (joint with Paul Heidhues and Philipp Strack), Theoretical Economics (2021), 16(1), 73-99.
• Choice Simplification: A Theory of Mental Budgeting and Naive Diversification (joint with Filip Matějka); Quarterly Journal of Economics (2020), 135(2), pp. 1153-1207.
• Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning (joint with Paul Heidhues and Philipp Strack); Econometrica (2018), 86(4), pp. 1159-1214.
• Naivete-Based Discrimination (joint with Paul Heidhues); Quarterly Journal of Economics (2017), 132(2), pp. 1019-1054.
• Inferior Products and Profitable Deception (joint with Paul Heidhues and Takeshi Murooka); Review of Economic Studies (2017), 84(1), pp. 323-356.
• Exploitative Innovation (joint with Paul Heidhues and Takeshi Murooka); American
• Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2016), 8(1), pp. 1-23. [Lead Article.]
• On the Welfare Costs of Naivete in the US Credit-Card Market (joint with Paul
• Heidhues), Review of Industrial Organization (2015), 47(3), pp. 341-354.
• Behavioral Contract Theory, Journal of Economic Literature (2014), 52(4), pp. 1075-1118.
• True Context-Dependent Preferences? The Causes of Market-Dependent Valuations (joint with Nina Mazar and Dan Ariely); Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (2014), 27; pp. 200-208.
• Regular Prices and Sales (joint with Paul Heidhues), Theoretical Economics (2014), 9, pp. 217-251.
• A Model of Focusing in Economic Choice (joint with Ádám Szeidl), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2013), 128(1), pp. 53-107.
• Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market (joint with Paul Heidhues), American Economic Review (2010), 100(5), pp. 2279-2303.
• Utility from Anticipation and Personal Equilibrium, Economic Theory (2010), 44(3), pp. 415-444.
• Reference-Dependent Consumption Plans (joint with Matthew Rabin), American Economic Review (2009), 99(3), pp. 909-936.
• Futile Attempts at Self-Control (joint with Paul Heidhues), Journal of the European Economic Association (2009), 7(2-3), 423-434.
• Choices, Situations, and Happiness (joint with Matthew Rabin), Journal of Public Economics (2008), 92, pp. 1821-1832.
• Competition and Price Variation when Consumers are Loss Averse (joint with Paul Heidhues), American Economic Review (2008), 98(4), pp. 1245-1268.
• Drive and Talent (joint with Wei Li), Journal of the European Economic Association (2008), 6(1), pp. 210-236.
• Reference-Dependent Risk Attitudes (joint with Matthew Rabin), American Economic Review (2007), 97(4), pp. 1047-1073.
• A Model of Reference-Dependent Preferences (joint with Matthew Rabin), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006), 121(4), pp. 1133-1166.
• Emotional Agency, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006), 121(1), pp. 121-156.
• Ego Utility, Overconfidence, and Task Choice, Journal of the European Economic Association (2006), 4(4), pp. 673-707.
• Tax Incidence When Individuals are Time Inconsistent: The Case of Cigarette Excise Taxes (joint with Jonathan Gruber), Journal of Public Economics (2004), 88, pp. 1959-1987.
• Health Anxiety and Patient Behavior, Journal of Health Economics (2003), 22, pp. 1073-1084.
• Quasi-hyperbolic Discounting and Retirement (joint with Peter Diamond), Journal of Public Economics (2003), 87, pp. 1839-1872.
• Is Addiction Rational?’ Theory and Evidence (joint with Jonathan Gruber), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2001), 116(4), pp. 1261-1305.
• Comparison of Magnetocaloric Properties from Magnetic and Thermal Measurements (with M. Foldeaki, W. Schnelle, E. Gmelin, P. Benard, A. Giguere, R. Chahine, and T. K. Bose); Journal of Applied Physics (1997), 82(1), pp. 309-316.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS & FORTHCOMING PAPERS:

• Behavioral Industrial Organization (joint with Paul Heidhues), Handbook of Behavioral Economics (2018), Eds. Douglas B. Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, and David Laibson, Volume 1, Chapter 6, pp. 517-612.
• Deception and Consumer Protection in Competitive Markets (with Paul Heidhues and Takeshi Murooka), in the Anthology on Pros and Cons of Consumer Protection, 2011.
• Revealed Mistakes and Revealed Preferences (with Matthew Rabin), in The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics, Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter (editors), Oxford University Press (2008), Chapter 8, pp. 193-209.
• Mistakes in Choice-Based Welfare Analysis (with Matthew Rabin), American Economic Review (2007), 97(2), pp. 477-481
• On the Feasibility of Market Solutions to Self-Control Problems, Swedish Economic Policy Review (2005), 12(2), pp. 71-94.
• Behavioral Economics, Psychology, and Public Policy (joint with On Amir, Dan Ariely, Alan Cooke, David Dunning, Nicholas Epley, Donald Lichtenstein, Nina Mazar, Sendhil Mullainathan, Drazen Prelec, Eldar Shafir, and Jose Silva), Marketing Letters (Special Issue for the Sixth Choice Symposium, 2005), 16:3/4, 443-454.
• Discussion of “Behavioral Economics and Health Economics” by Richard Frank, Economic Institutions and Behavioral Economics, Peter Diamond and Hannu Vertainen (editors), Princeton: Princeton University Press.

WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS:

• Procrastination Markets (joint with Paul Heidhues and Takeshi Murooka)
• Steering Fallible Consumers (joint with Paul Heidhues and Mats Köster)
• Overconfidence and Prejudice (joint with Paul Heidhues and Philipp Strack)
• Financial Choice and Financial Information (joint with Péter Kondor)
• Learning and Mislearning in Intertemporal Choice (joint with Paul Heidhues and Philipp
• Strack)
• How the Effect of Consumer-Protection Regulation Depends on Its Scope (joint with Paul
• Heidhues and Johannes Johnen)
• Malicious Contract Design (joint with Armin Falk and Paul Heidhues)