Alex Imas

Alex Imas is a Research Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Distinguished CESifo Affiliate. His work bridges behavioral economics and decision science through interdisciplinary collaborations with institutions like CESifo Munich. He specializes in understanding cognitive biases, social preferences, and intertemporal choice dynamics in real-world contexts.

• Behavioral Economics Expertise
• Focus on Decision-Making Biases
• Collaborative Research Network

His research explores how trauma impacts present bias, the role of regret in economic decisions, and prosocial incentive structures. He employs field experiments to measure behavioral responses in naturalistic settings, contributing innovative methodologies to preference measurement.

Key working papers include studies on mimetic dominance, ambiguity aversion estimation, and temporal discounting mechanisms, reflecting his interest in bounded rationality and its policy implications.

• Distinguished CESifo Affiliate

He has collaborated with leading researchers such as Uri Gneezy, John A. List, and Klaus M. Schmidt, advancing empirical frameworks in behavioral economics through lab-in-the-field experiments.