On Amir
Wolfe Family Presidential Endowed Chair in Life Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Professor of Marketing at Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego
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Dr. Amir’s research focuses on using psychological and economic principles to identify successful strategies in different market settings. He investigates different customer decision-making mechanisms and their influences on pricing and promotion strategies, on decision making under risk and uncertainty, and on preference dynamics. He also writes about how insights from research on decision making and behavioral economics may be used to improve business practices and policy making.
Dr. Amir has received several research awards from the Marketing Science Institute and from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. He has public numerous scholarly articles, which have appeared in Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Technology Law review, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Marketing Science, and Marketing Letters, among others.
He received his Ph.D. in management science and marketing from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
