Making choices: Are you instinctive or contemplative?
When it comes to making choices, do you trust your gut feeling or think strategically? According to game theory expert Professor Ariel Rubinstein, people are either “instinctive” or “contemplative”.
Prof Rubenstein to explore this experimental game theory research which classifies people by their decision making behaviour, and how this may allow us to predict future behaviour.
Please support Prof Rubinstein’s research by taking this short survey before attending the lecture.
Speaker
Ariel Rubinstein, Professor of Economics, Tel Aviv University and New York University
Ariel Rubinstein is a professor of economics at New York University and emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University. He previously held professorial positions at the Hebrew University and Princeton University. His research spans the fields of economic theory, decision theory, models of bounded rationality, game theory and experimental economics. Prof Rubinstein is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Economic Association, a Fellow of the Israeli Academy of Sciences, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He served as the President of the Econometric Society in 2004. Prof Rubinstein won the Israel Prize (2002), the Nemmers Prize (2004), the EMET prize (2006), and the Rothschild Prize (2010). He has written seven books. His latest book, Models of Microeconomic Theory, was written with co-author M. Osborne and published in 2020.
Host
Department of Economics, Monash Business School
BET (Behavioural, Experimental, Theoretical) Research Group, Monash Business School.
Monash Laboratory of Experimental Economics (MonLEE), Monash Business School.
Organised by
Department of Economics
Event Details
- Date:
- 26 May 2022 at 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
- Venue:
- Online
- Categories:
- Economics
Description
When it comes to making choices, do you trust your gut feeling or think strategically? According to game theory expert Professor Ariel Rubinstein, people are either “instinctive” or “contemplative”.
Prof Rubenstein to explore this experimental game theory research which classifies people by their decision making behaviour, and how this may allow us to predict future behaviour.
Please support Prof Rubinstein’s research by taking this short survey before attending the lecture.
Speaker
Ariel Rubinstein, Professor of Economics, Tel Aviv University and New York University
Ariel Rubinstein is a professor of economics at New York University and emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University. He previously held professorial positions at the Hebrew University and Princeton University. His research spans the fields of economic theory, decision theory, models of bounded rationality, game theory and experimental economics. Prof Rubinstein is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Economic Association, a Fellow of the Israeli Academy of Sciences, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He served as the President of the Econometric Society in 2004. Prof Rubinstein won the Israel Prize (2002), the Nemmers Prize (2004), the EMET prize (2006), and the Rothschild Prize (2010). He has written seven books. His latest book, Models of Microeconomic Theory, was written with co-author M. Osborne and published in 2020.
Host
Department of Economics, Monash Business School
BET (Behavioural, Experimental, Theoretical) Research Group, Monash Business School.
Monash Laboratory of Experimental Economics (MonLEE), Monash Business School.
Organised by
Department of Economics