Ido Erev

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

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

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

  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. ^ Lyons, Patrick J. (2020-03-19). "Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  7. ^ "Conformity hinders task performance in groups - study". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2023-09-13. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  8. ^ https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-ban-from-public-places-or-gentle-persuasion-the-future-of-virus-tracking/
  9. ^ Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (2023-07-09). Ido Erev: On the value of the rationality assumption, and the impact of experience. Retrieved 2024-07-05 – via YouTube.
  10. ^ "Successful collaboration with Technion University in Haifa, Israel | Erasmus University Rotterdam". www.eur.nl. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  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.