Law, Economics, and Business Workshop Presents Avner Strulov-Shlain, Chicago Booth School of Business

Avner Strulov-Shlain’s research focuses on the behavioral economics of firms. He is interested in how market players, such as retailers or online marketplaces, interact with consumers who have psychological biases. How should firms respond to these consumers? How do they respond in practice? Two strands of findings emerge — first, that consumers’ non-standard behavior should be taken seriously and quantitively, and second, that companies are sometimes “behavioral” too especially when not taking consumer behavior into account. To answer these questions, Strulov-Shlain uses observational data, natural experiments, field experiments, and lab experiments. Strulov-Shlain earned his PhD in economics from University of California, Berkeley. His pre-doctoral studies include an MA in economics from Tel-Aviv University and a BSc in physics and mathematics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.