Management Craft

Colin Camerer

Researcher

Behavioural economist, at the University of Pennsylvania when he co-wrote the 1989 experiments naming the curse of knowledge; later Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics at Caltech.

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The Curse of Knowledge in Economic Settings: An Experimental AnalysisPaper · 1989Camerer, Loewenstein, and Weber's 1989 paper that put the curse of knowledge into the literature: once you know something, you cannot reliably predict the judgment of someone who does not. Its contribution is showing the bias survives money, feedback and market discipline, which are the three things economists expected would remove it.