Alberto Bisin is a Professor of Economics at New York University. He is also a fellow of the NBER, IGIER at Bocconi University, CESS at NYU, CIREQ at the Université de Montreal. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, of Economic Theory, and of Research in Economics. His main contributions are in the fields of Social Economics, Financial Economics, and Behavioral Economics. He is a co-editor of the Handbook of Social Economics. He is also the founding editor of www.noisefromamerika.org.

Bisin received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1994.