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David Laibson

Global rank #513 99%

Institution: Harvard University

Primary Field: Finance (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://scholar.harvard.edu/laibson/home

First Publication: 1989

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pla164 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.67 2.08 0.00 0.00 7.00
Last 10 Years 0.67 4.26 0.29 0.00 11.65
All Time 14.78 8.08 10.56 0.00 86.00

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 46
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 33.90

Publications (46)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Optimal illiquidity Journal of Financial Economics A 6
2025 The Semblance of Success in Nudging Consumers to Pay Down Credit Card Debt American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 6
2025 Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy* Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2022 Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt Journal of Finance A 5
2022 Paternalism and pseudo-rationality: An illustration based on retirement savings Journal of Public Economics A 2
2022 Do Nudges Reduce Borrowing and Consumer Confusion in the Credit Card Market? Economica C 6
2020 Measuring and controlling for the compromise effect when estimating risk preference parameters Experimental Economics A 4
2020 Predicting mid-life capital formation with pre-school delay of gratification and life-course measures of self-regulation Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 7
2020 Which early withdrawal penalty attracts the most deposits to a commitment savings account? Journal of Public Economics A 6
2017 Does front-loading taxation increase savings? Evidence from Roth 401(k) introductions Journal of Public Economics A 4
2017 Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk Taking? The Review of Financial Studies A 4
2016 The impact of competition on prices with numerous firms Journal of Economic Theory A 6
2015 Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison American Economic Review S 5
2015 The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions Journal of Finance A 5
2015 Why Don't Present-Biased Agents Make Commitments? American Economic Review S 1
2015 Principles of (Behavioral) Economics American Economic Review S 2
2014 Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education American Economic Review S 3
2014 What makes annuitization more appealing? Journal of Public Economics A 5
2013 What Goes Up Must Come Down? Experimental Evidence on Intuitive Forecasting American Economic Review S 5
2013 Simplification and saving Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2013 Consumers’ misunderstanding of health insurance Journal of Health Economics B 13
2013 Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed‐Form Solution Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking B 3
2013 Instantaneous Gratification Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2011 $100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Suboptimal Investment in 401(k) Plans Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
2011 Asset Bubbles and the Cost of Economic Fluctuations Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking B 3
2010 Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds The Review of Financial Studies A 3
2009 The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation Brookings Papers on Economic Activity B 4
2009 Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect American Economic Review S 3
2009 Reinforcement Learning and Savings Behavior Journal of Finance A 4
2009 Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions Quarterly Journal of Economics S 5
2008 How are preferences revealed? Journal of Public Economics A 4
2008 Individual laboratory-measured discount rates predict field behavior Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 5
2006 Costly Information Acquisition: Experimental Analysis of a Boundedly Rational Model American Economic Review S 4
2006 Shrouded Attributes, Consumer Myopia, and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2005 Are Empowerment and Education Enough? Underdiversification in 401(k) Plans Brookings Papers on Economic Activity B 3
2003 Optimal Defaults American Economic Review S 4
2002 How does the Internet affect trading? Evidence from investor behavior in 401(k) plans Journal of Financial Economics A 3
2001 A Cue-Theory of Consumption Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
2000 A Boundedly Rational Decision Algorithm American Economic Review S 2
2000 Measuring Trust Quarterly Journal of Economics S 4
1999 Commentary on "Choice Bracketing" by Read, Lowenstein and Rabin. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
1998 Self-Control and Saving for Retirement Brookings Papers on Economic Activity B 3
1998 Life-cycle consumption and hyperbolic discount functions European Economic Review B 1
1998 Amos Tversky and the Ascent of Behavioral Economics. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
1997 Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
1989 Economic Implications of Extraordinary Movements in Stock Prices Brookings Papers on Economic Activity B 2