Evolution, Learning, and Behavior (Sommersemester 2024)
Prof. Dr. Florian Herold
The course introduces different topics related to behavioural economics and bounded rational learning how to act strategically. We start with an introduction to techniques from evolutionary game theory which can be used to investigate the evolutionary foundations of preferences and behaviour as well as to model learning processes. We will further discuss empirically observed human biases, how to model them and their possible evolutionary origins.
Topics
- Recapitulation of Key Concepts in Game Theory
- Introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory
- Evolution and Learning
- Evolution of Preferences
- Human biases in decision making (e.g. Prospect Theory) and evolutionary origins
- Social preferences and their evolutionary foundation
- Networks and Evolution (if time permits)
Good knowledge of microeconomics and game theory (at the level of Advanced Microeconomics (MA)) is needed to follow the course.
Vorlesung (Prof. Florian Herold)
- Donnerstag, 14.15 - 15.45 Uhr in F21/02.41 Beginn: 18.04.2024
Übung (Stephan Eitel M.Sc.)
- Montag 10.15 - 11.45 Uhr in F21/02.41 Beginn: 29.04.2024
Literatur
Weibull, Jörgen W. (1998), Evolutionary Game Theory, MIT Press
Sandholm, William H. (2010), Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics
Vega-Redondo, Fernando (1996), Evolution, Games and Economic Behavior
Samuelson, Larry (1997), Evolutionary Games and Equilibrium Selection
Fudenberg, Drew and David K. Levine (1998), Theory of Learning in Games
Maynard Smith, John (1982), Evolution and the Theory of Games
Easley and Kleinberg (2010, Networks, Crowds, and Markets, Cambridge University press (online: www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/)
Angner, Erik (2012), A Course in Behavioral Economics
Further Literature will be announced in class.