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Ido Erev

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Ido Erev
Born (1959-12-06) December 6, 1959 (age 64)
NationalityIsraeli
Academic career
InstitutionTechnion
FieldBehavioral Economics
Incentives
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina

Ido Erev is an Israeli psychologist.[1][2][3][4]

Erev is the Women’s Division—ATS Academic Chair, Vice Dean for the MBA programs and heads the Technion section of the Max Wertheimer Minerva Center for Cognitive Research, and head of the Technion's ICORE group for Empirical Legal Studies of Decision Making. [5]

His research has been covered in the New York Times to explain the rapid spread of the Corona Virus,[6] Jerusalem Post,[7] and the Times of Israel [8]

Career[edit]

Prof. Erev was the Michael A. Gould fellow at Columbia Business School; a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School; a fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies[9]; a visiting professor at Erasmus School of Economics[10]; and a research environment professor at Warwick Business School [11]

Research[edit]

Erev publishes primarily on reinforcement learning in individual decision tasks as well as 2-player games. [12] He has contributed the learning chapter to the Handbook of Experimental Economics [13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ido Erev and Ernan Haruvy (2016). "Learning and the economics of small decisions". In Kagel, J.H. and Roth, A.E. (Eds.), The Handbook of Experimental Economics. Princeton University Press
  2. ^ Erev, Ido and Alvin Roth (1998). Predicting how people play games: Reinforcement learning in experimental games with unique, mixed strategy equilibria. American Economic Review, 848-881.
  3. ^ Erev, I., Ert, E., Roth, A. E., Haruvy, E., Herzog, S. M., Hau, R., ... & Lebiere, C. (2010). "A choice prediction competition: Choices from experience and from description". Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 23(1), 15-47.
  4. ^ Perry, Orit, Ido Erev, and Ernan Haruvy, (2002). "Frequent probabilistic punishment in law enforcement". Economics of Governance, 3(1), 71-86.
  5. ^ https://dds.technion.ac.il/academicstaff/ido-erev/
  6. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/coronavirus-today.html
  7. ^ https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-758868
  8. ^ https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-ban-from-public-places-or-gentle-persuasion-the-future-of-virus-tracking/
  9. ^ Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (2023) On the value of the rationality assumption, and the impact of experience, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjPJ3knjF8E
  10. ^ https://www.eur.nl/en/news/successful-collaboration-technion-university-haifa-israel
  11. ^ https://www.wbs.ac.uk/sites/wbs2012/assets/PDF/downloads/REF/distinguished-research-environment-professors.pdf
  12. ^ Roth, A. E., & Erev, I. (1995). Learning in extensive-form games: Experimental data and simple dynamic models in the intermediate term. Games and economic behavior, 8(1), 164-212.
  13. ^ Kagel, J. H., & Roth, A. E. (Eds.). (2020). The handbook of experimental economics, volume 2. Princeton university press.

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