work_institution nationality field birth_date known_for prizes article_title name alma_mater
cornell university american economics , financial economics , decision theory c. 1950s market microstructure , asset pricing , networks fellow 2011 -rrb- , econometric society frederick w. lanchester prize -lrb- david easley
 david easley northwestern university kellogg school of management -lrb- ph.d. -rrb-
david easley

david alan easley -lrb- born 1950s -rrb- is an american economist .
easley is the henry scarborough professor of social science and the donald c. opatrny '74 chair of the department of economics at cornell university .
he was previously an overseas fellow of churchill college at cambridge university .
his research is in the field of economics , finance and decision theory .
in economics , he focuses on learning , wealth dynamics and natural selection in markets .
in finance , his work focuses on market microstructure and asset pricing .
in decision theory , he works on modeling decision making in complex environments .
he is a fellow of the econometric society and is a chair of the nasdaq-omx economic advisory board .
several of his scientific papers are listed among the most read in finance , according to the social science research network easley earned his ph.d. from northwestern university in 1979 .
