Ido Erev () is an Israeli psychologist.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 PressErev, 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.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.Perry, Orit, Ido Erev, and Ernan Haruvy, (2002). "Frequent probabilistic punishment in law enforcement". Economics of Governance, 3(1), 71-86.
Ido 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. He leads the Technion's ICORE group for Empirical Legal Studies of Decision Making.
In early 2020, prior to the virus reaching global pandemic status, his research was used in an article in the New York Times to explain the rapid spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
His research has also been written about in the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel.
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; a visiting professor at Erasmus School of Economics; and a research environment professor at Warwick Business School
Research
Erev publishes primarily on reinforcement learning in individual decision tasks as well as 2-player games. 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. He has contributed the learning chapter to the Handbook of Experimental Economics Kagel, J. H., & Roth, A. E. (Eds.). (2020). The handbook of experimental economics, volume 2. Princeton university press.
References
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