Ido Erev Explained

Ido Erev
Birth Date:	6 December 1959
Birth Place:	Afula, Israel
Institution:	Technion
Field:	Behavioral Economics Incentives
Alma Mater:	University 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]

External links

• Ido Erev: "Big data without big brothers: the potential of gentle rule enforcement"
• "The impact of experience on the phenomena summarized by prospect theory" was presented in The D-TEA (Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications) Zoom meeting on Prospect Theory, June 16-19, 2020
• Ido Erev lecture in London Judgment and Decision Making seminars, 21st October 2020

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