12.13现代产业经济学系列讲座第109期

时间：2012年12月13日（周四）14:00–15:30

地点：复旦大学管理学院（国顺路670号）史带楼301

主题：Mental Equilibrium and Strategic Emotions

主持人：产业经济学系 龚冰琳博士

嘉宾简介: Professor Eyal Winter is holding the Silverzweig Chiar in Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the director of the Centre for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University. The Center is one of the world's leading institutions in the field of academic study of decision making. Professor Winter served as chairman of the economics department at Hebrew University and was a recipient of the Humboldt Prize, awarded by the German government in 2011. He has also held senior positions at Washington University, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. In addition, Professor Winter is a council member of the International Game Theory Society and an advisory editor of the journal Games and Economic Behavior. He has published in leading journals such as Econometrica, The American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Economic Theory.

Abstract: We introduce emotions into an equilibrium notion. In a mental Equilibrium each player "selects" an emotional state which determines the player's preferences over the outcomes of the game. These preferences typically differ from the players' material preferences. The emotional states interact to play a Nash equilibrium and in addition each player's emotional state must be a best response (with respect to material preferences) to the emotional states of the others. We discuss the concept behind the definition of mental equilibrium and show that this behavioral equilibrium notion organizes quite well the results of some of the popular experiments in the experimental economics literature. Based on data collected from the British TV game "Split or Steal" we will discuss the interesting phenomenon of implicit coordination in games, and will demonstrate how the theory of Mental Equilibrium explains it.