Rate My Professor Nathan Berg

Berg's research specializes in behavioral economics, entrepreneurial decision making, financial economics, medical and health decision making, experimental economics, psychology and economics, economic demography, urban economics, and entrepreneurial capital. He teaches microeconomics, financial economics, psychology and economics, business statistics, and econometrics. Since joining Otago, he has published 15 new scholarly works, with articles in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Psychological Review, Social Choice and Welfare, and collaborations with the Max Planck Institute's Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition published by Oxford University Press. Key publications include 'Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World' (Todd and Gigerenzer, 2012), 'As-if Behavioral Economics: Neoclassical Economics in Disguise?' (Gigerenzer and Berg, 2010), 'Non-response Bias' (2005), 'Measuring the Effect of Sexual Orientation on Income: Evidence of Discrimination?' (Berg and Lien, 2002), and chapters such as 'Against Nudging' (2020) and 'Smart People's Rational Mistakes' (2017). He has received grants including the Australian Research Council Discovery Project for 'Pathologies of Moral Cognition' (AUD 156,000, 2014-2018), Fulbright Scholar award (2003), and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship (2016). Berg is Associate Editor for Review of Behavioral Economics and Global Economics and Management Review, and serves on editorial boards for Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Global Business and Economics Review. His work has appeared in Financial Times, Business Week, and Canada's National Post.