Peter Bossaerts

Peter L. Bossaerts (10 January 1960 in Belgium) is a Belgian-American economist. He is considered one of the pioneers and leading researchers in neuroeconomy.[1][2]

Life

Peter Bossaerts grew up in Belgium and studied at the Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (today University of Antwerp) from 1977 to 1982, where he obtained a PhD in applied economics. After completing a master program in statistics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, he earned a Ph.D. at University of California in Financial Management.

He began his academic career as a research associate at Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked as an assistant professor for finance from 1986 to 1990. He then joined the California Institute of Technology as an assistant professor and became an associate professor in 1994, before being appointed as Dean. From 2002 to 2007, he was full professor at the Swiss Finance Institute for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. Since 2014, he is Professor of Experimental Finance and Decision Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne (Australia).

Peter Bossaerts is one of the greatest experts on empirical finance.[1] He published numerous scientific articles in well-known trade journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance , Review of Financial Studies , etc.. He summarized his research findings and scientific contributions in the 2002 book "The Paradox of Asset Pricing". [3]

Peter Bossaerts is married and father of two children.

References

  1. 1 2 „Ein Dekan des California Institute of Technology (Caltech) kommt nach Lausanne“, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Lausanne, 4. Juli 2007
  2. ↑ „Im Anleger-Hirn“, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 10. Dezember 2007
  3. ↑ Peter Bossaerts (3 December 2013). The Paradox of Asset Pricing. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-5066-2.
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