CAREER: Behavioral Mechanism Design

职业：行为机制设计

• 批准号: 0847406
• 负责人: Paul Healy
• 金额: $ 51.5万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0847406&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Behavioral; Mechanism; Design

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5).The field of economics known as mechanism design considers how to design incentive schemes that reach desired outcomes. It has many applications and it represents one of the most important developments in economic theory over the past 30 years; indeed, this theory resulted in a recent Nobel Prize. At the same time, recent research in behavioral economics and decision science has strengthened our understanding of how people actually behave in strategic settings. This CAREER project focuses on discovering superior mechanisms based on this new behavioral knowledge. The research plan includes both laboratory experiments and theoretical work to discover general behavioral principles, identify better mechanisms for specific areas of application such as auctions and carbon-trading systems, and to provide insight into the design of optimal mechanisms for a wide range of general applications.The PI is creating a new summer workshop for high school students from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds. These students participate in hands-on research workshops using economics experiments. Members of under-represented groups are particularly targeted by this program, which creates interest in pursuing a career in social science. The PI will also design and teach a new undergraduate course in behavioral economics of mechanism design. The class will include a ?capstone? component where students design and carry out their own experiment. Finally, he will restructure an existing doctoral course and start a reading group in behavioral mechanism design for graduate students and faculty in Economics and related disciplines, including decision science. The research funded by this award provides further societal benefit because it will be used to develop the next generation of incentive mechanisms.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。被称为机制设计的经济学领域考虑如何设计达到预期结果的激励计划。 它有许多应用，它代表了过去30年来经济理论最重要的发展之一;事实上，该理论最近获得了诺贝尔奖。 与此同时，行为经济学和决策科学的最新研究加强了我们对人们在战略环境中实际行为的理解。 这个CAREER项目的重点是发现基于这种新的行为知识的上级机制。 该研究计划包括实验室实验和理论工作，以发现一般的行为原则，确定更好的机制，为特定的应用领域，如拍卖和碳交易系统，并提供深入了解设计的最佳机制，为广泛的一般应用。PI正在创建一个新的夏季研讨会，高中生从广泛的社会经济背景。 这些学生参加动手研究研讨会使用经济学实验。 该计划特别针对代表性不足的群体的成员，这引起了他们对从事社会科学事业的兴趣。 PI还将设计和教授一门新的机制设计行为经济学本科课程。 课程将包括A？顶点石？学生设计并进行自己的实验。 最后，他将重组现有的博士课程，并为经济学和相关学科（包括决策科学）的研究生和教师建立一个行为机制设计阅读小组。该奖项资助的研究提供了进一步的社会效益，因为它将用于开发下一代激励机制。