Kay-Yut Chen is an experimental economist best known for pioneering the application of behavioral economics to business management.
[2] His work at HP Labs has been featured in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and Scientific American.
[3][4][5] Chen is co-author of a book about the business applications of behavioral economics, Secrets of the Moneylab, co-authored with journalist Marina Krakovsky, and published by Portfolio/Penguin in 2010.
[6] Nobel laureate George Akerlof wrote the foreword to the book.
[8] He earned his PhD in economics from California Institute of Technology in 1994, where his research advisors were John Ledyard and Charles Plott.