Richard Thaler, PhD
Principal
Dr. Thaler is actively involved in setting strategic direction and enhancing the research and investment
processes at Fuller & Thaler. He has been with the firm since 1999. Dr. Thaler is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral
Science, Economics and Finance at the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago. He has
also taught at Cornell and MIT and is considered one of the leading scholars in the field of behavioral finance
and economics.
Dr. Thaler’s published books on behavioral finance include The
Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life,
Quasi-Rational Economics, and Nudge: Improving Decisions About
Health, Wealth, and Happiness. He also edited Advances in Behavioral Finance Vol 1 and 2. He was elected Vice President of the American Economics Association, Fellow of the American Finance Association, and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the winner of the Nicholas Moldovsky Award from the CFA Institute. He co-heads the National Bureau
of Economic Research Behavioral Finance Project. Dr. Thaler received
his BA from Case Western University, and his MA and PhD degrees
in Finance from the University of Rochester. He is a shareholder
of the firm and a member of the Board of Directors.