In Honor of Matthew Rabin: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
回顾了马修·拉宾的学术贡献,包括他在互惠性、现时偏向型时间贴现、判断偏差以及道德规则与道德品味差异等方面的建模工作,适合对行为经济学起源感兴趣的读者。
Matthew Rabin's Clark medal honors his abilities to digest huge amounts of nuanced psychology, create simple models capturing that psychology, and do behavioral economics with those models. After warming up by solving hard problems in modeling pre-game communication, his behavioral career began with a seminal paper on reciprocity. He also created models of “present-bias” in time discounting, and derived some surprises from them, and implications (e.g., deadlinesetting and sin taxes). Matthew has also studied quasi-Bayesian models of judgment biases (confirmation and overgeneralization from small samples), overprojection of current feelings into the future, and how moral rules differ from moral tastes.