Profile
Nathan Berg is Associate Professor of economics in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences (EPPS) at University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).
Since joining UTD in 2001, he has published 25 articles and chapters in behavioral economics, appearing in outlets such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Social Choice and Welfare and Contemporary Economic Policy.
Berg was a Fulbright Scholar in 2003, Visiting Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute-Berlin in 2005, and his research has been cited in Business Week, Canada’s National Post, The Village Voice, The Advocate and Atlantic Monthly.
Berg’s main areas of research are behavioral economics, financial markets, real estate economics and economic demography. He teaches microeconomics, financial markets, behavioral economics and public sector economics.
Berg was elected to the Board of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics in 2006. He sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Socio-Economics and Global Business Economics Review.
He sings and writes for the acoustic rock band, Halliburton(s), www.halliburtons.com and leads the Nathan Berg European Jazz Quartet.
Recent Publications
Berg, N. and Gigerenzer, G. (forthcoming) Psychology implies paternalism?: Bounded rationality may reduce the rationale to regulate risk-taking, Social Choice and Welfare.
Berg, N. (2006) A simple Bayesian procedure for sample size selection in an audit of property value appraisals, Real Estate Economics34(1), 133-155.
Berg, N. and Lien, D. (2006) Same-sex sexual behavior: U.S. frequency estimates from survey data with simultaneous misreporting and non-response, Applied Economics 38(7), 757-769.
Berg, N. and Lien, D. (2005) Does society benefit from investor overconfidence in the ability of financial market experts?, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 58, 95-116.
Berg, N. (2005) Decision-making environments in which unboundedly rational decision makers choose to ignore relevant information, Global Business and Economics Review 7(1): 59-73.
Berg, N. (2004) No-decision classification: An alternative to testing for statistical significance, Journal of Socio-Economics 33(5), 631-650.
Berg, N. and Lien, D. (2003) Tracking error decision rules and accumulated wealth, Applied Mathematical Finance 10(2), 91-119.
Berg, N. (2003) Normative behavioral economics, Journal of Socio-Economics 32, 411-427.
Berg, N. (2003) Hedging housing risk and the new economy: Is there a connection, and should firms care?, Global Business and Economics Review 5(1), 10-36.
Berg, N. and Lien, D. (2002) Measuring the effect of sexual orientation on income: Evidence of discrimination?, Contemporary Economic Policy 20, 394-414. [Cited in Business Week, April 21, p.30, Canada’s National Post, April 28, 2003, and Atlantic Monthly, October 2003.]
Berg, N. (2002) Coping with journal-price inflation: Leading policy proposals and the quality-spectrum, Economics Bulletin 4(14), 1-8.
Papers in Edited Volumes and Published Proceedings
Berg, N. and Gigerenzer, G. (forthcoming) Unhappy inconsistency in Kacelnik et al’s many-happy-rationalities program, In Daston, L. and Engel, C. (eds.), Is There Value in Inconsistency?, Baden-Baden, Nomos.
Berg, N. (forthcoming) Behavioral labor economics, In Altman, M. (ed.), Handbook of Behavioral Economics, Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe.
Berg, N. (forthcoming) Finance, psychology, economics and the design of successful institutions, Shanghai Forum 2005 Anthology, Fudan University Press, Shanghai.
Berg N. (2005) Psychological economics and the size of government: On anti-, anti-anti-, ... , (anti-)n, In Yasin, Y. (ed.), Economic Modernization and Cultivation of Institutions (Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow), HSE Publishing House, pp. 367-375.
Berg, N. and Hoffrage, U. (forthcoming) Environmental determinants of simple decision rules: No cognitive limitations needed, In Opwis, K. and Penner, I. (eds.) Proceedings of KogWis05: The German Cognitive Science Conference 2005, Schwabe, Basel.
Berg, N. (2005) Non-response bias, In Kempf-Leonard, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement vol. 2, pp. 865-873, London, Academic Press.
Berg, N. (2002) Behavioral cost-benefit economics: Toward a new normative approach to policy, In Kantarelis, D. (ed.), Global Business & Economics Review-Anthology, pp.132-141.- Updated: October 17, 2006
