Thomas Graeber is the NOMIS Professor of Cognitive and Neuroeconomics at the University of Zurich (Switzerland).
Graeber received a BA in economics from the University of Cambridge (UK) and a PhD in economics from University of Bonn (Germany). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Economics at Harvard University (Cambridge, US). Prior to joining the University of Zurich, he was assistant professor of business administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. He is associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association.
Research Focus
As an empirical behavioral and experimental economist, Graeber’s research focuses on identifying the determinants and economic implications of bounded rationality and nonstandard preferences as sources of deviations from canonical economic models. Employing large-scale experiments and field data, he studies the cognitive foundations of economic behavior, such as selective attention, memory and bounded rationality: What makes people behave the way they do? What is the role of complexity and cognitive constraints in how people make choices and learn from new information?
