CAREER: Behavioral Mechanism Design

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方案。它有许多应用，它代表了过去30年来经济理论中最重要的发展之一；事实上，这一理论最近获得了诺贝尔奖。与此同时，最近在行为经济学和决策科学方面的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高级机制。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理，为拍卖和碳交易系统等特定应用领域确定更好的机制，并为广泛的一般应用提供最佳机制设计的见解。PI正在为来自不同社会经济背景的高中生创建一个新的暑期工作坊。这些学生参与使用经济学实验的实践研究工作坊。这个项目特别针对代表性不足的群体，这激发了他们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。这门课将包括一个顶点课程。组成部分，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，并为经济学及相关学科（包括决策科学）的研究生和教师开设一个行为机制设计读书会。由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。

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.