The 24th Jerusalem School in Economic Theory

Decision Making

Lecturers

Maya Bar-HillelThe Hebrew University
Itzhak GilboaTel Aviv University
Daniel KahnemanPrinceton University
David LaibsonHarvard University
Mark MachinaUniversity of California, San Diego
Eric MaskinHarvard University
Wolfgang PesendorferPrinceton University
Ariel RubinsteinTel Aviv University
Eyal  WinterThe Hebrew University

 Decision making is at the heart of economics: production, exchange, and consumption are all the result of choices made by individual agents. For over sixty years, the benchmark framework for studying agents' decisions whose consequences are uncertain has been the expected utility model. But anomalies from experimental work in psychology and behavioral economics have led to revisions of expected utility and of utility theory more generally. The Summer School will explore both the standard model and some of the most important alternatives