The Speakers
One of the leading figures in the study of the evolutionary foundations of economic preferences. Arthur Robson has proposed explanations for risk and time preferences and for reasons why they may vary across individuals and across time. His research has been published in leading journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, PNAS.
Jonathan Newton is a Professor of Economics and Game Theory at the Institute of Economic Research at Kyoto University. He has published extensively on evolutionary game theory, coalitional games and shared intentions. His research has been published in leading journals including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory.
Moshe Hoffman applies game theory, models of learning and evolution, and experimental methods, to try to decipher the motives that shape our social behaviour, preferences, and ideologies. His research has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, Nature, Nature and Human Behaviour, PNAS. He has recently co-authored the book Hidden Games (2021) on the underlying game theory behind many of our social behaviours.
Maria is an applied mathematician working on evolutionary game theory. She combines the study of game dynamics and economic experiments to investigate the evolutionary roots of strategic and social preferences. Her research has been published in leading scientific journals such as Journal of Mathematical Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, Dynamic Games and Applications, Royal Society Open Science.
Greg Kubitz is an economist and game theorist using tools from mechanism design and information economics to explain human behaviour and social interactions. He works on behaviour in contests, signalling games and the evolutionary explanation of well-known human biases. His research on contests has been published in the American Economic Journal: Micro and Behavioral Ecology.
Lionel Page is the Director of the Behavioural and Economic Science Cluster at the University of Queensland. He studies human decision-making and behavioural game theory. His research has been published in leading scientific journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quantitative Economics, the Economic Journal, PNAS. He has recently published the book Optimally Irrational which discusses the good reasons behind many behavioural biases.