Richard T Curtin
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Richard Curtin is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research Center. He was the director of the consumer sentiment surveys from 1976 to 2022, issuing more than 1,500 reports on how consumer expectations influence the macroeconomy. These reports earned a high credibility among domestic and international users, including central banks, financial institutions, business firms, academic researchers, and the general public. Professor Curtin has helped many other countries to establish consumer sentiment surveys, with the total number now upwards of six dozen countries covering all inhabited continents in the world.
Professor Curtin’s research was based on an interdisciplinary approach to behavioral economics, including economics, psychology, and neuroscience. Richard Curtin won the 2020 Isaac Kerstenetzky Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award, which recognized Professor Curtin’s seminal scholarship and path-breaking contributions to the field of consumer surveys to understand and forecast cyclical changes in the macroeconomy. He published six books and dozens of academic articles, including Consumer Expectations: Micro Foundations and Macro Impact (Cambridge University Press, 2019); a summary journal article of the book won the Abramson award for the most outstanding paper published in 2019 in Business Economics.
- Curtin,Richard T. 2022. Psychological aspects of economic expectations. APA handbook of consumer psychology :429-448.
- Richard T Curtin. 2022. A New Theory of Expectations. Journal of Business Cycle Research 18:239-59.
- Richard T Curtin. 2022. Relative Performance of Business and Consumer Economic Expectations Across EU Countries. Journal of Business Cycle Research 19:95-117.
- Curtin,Richard T. 2021. Nonconscious cognitive reasoning: A neglected ability shaping economic behavior. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 5(S3):35-43.
- Curtin, Richard T. 2019. Consumer Expectations: Micro Foundations and Macro Impact.
- Suzer Gurtekin, Tuba, Lepkowski, James M, Curtin, Richard T, Elkasabi, Mahmoud , Liu, Mingnan . 2019. Randomized Experiments for Web-Mail Surveys Conducted Using Address-Based Samples of the General Population. Experimental Methods in Survey Research :275-289.
- Richard T Curtin. 2019. Consumer expectations: a new paradigm. Business Economics 54(4):199-210.
- Curtin, Richard T. 2017. George Katona: a founder of behavioral economics. Routledge Handbook of Behavioral Economics
- James M Lepkowski, Richard T Curtin, McBee, Rebecca Elizabeth, ElKasabi, Mahmoud , Liu, Mingnan . 2016. Effect of a pre-paid incentive on response rates to an Address-Based Sampling (ABS) Web-Mail survey. Survey Practice 9(4):..
- Lepkowski, James M, Curtin, Richard T, McBee, Rebecca Elizabeth, Elkasabi, Mahmoud , Kim, Uiyoung . 2014. A Comparison of ABS Mail and RDD Surveys for Measuring Consumer Attitudes. International Journal of Market Research 56(6):737-756.