Columbia University in New York (in cooperation with the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Pennsylvania) seeks a postdoctoral research fellow in Decision Sciences, for two to three years, to plan and conduct laboratory research on the effects of framing, multiple goals, and uncertainty in experimental games.
Multiple goals and uncertainty have generally been bypassed in laboratory games, simply by assuming that payoffs are given as expected utilities. Under a theory of constructed preference, this assumption does not make sense. The proposed research pays close attention to frames, multiple goals, and uncertainty. Our current focus is on two broad types of game structure: (1) zero-sum games with intransitive strategy cycles (generalizations of "paper-rock- scissors" , including some market-entry games); (2) non-zero sum games with multiple equilibria (modifications of commons-dilemma games, in which cooperative goals or externalities entail that non-cooperation is no longer a dominating strategy). This latter class of games is currently being studied with multiple framings: protective decisions, environmental improvement, and entrepreneurship. Apart from the effect of framing on goals, we are particularly interested in learning processes in the stochastic environment and how they
affect repeated play of such games.
The research is to be conducted in collaboration with David H. Krantz of Columbia, Howard C. Kunreuther of the Wharton School (Pennsylvania) , and Christian Schade of Humboldt. The postdoctoral research fellow will work with these collaborators, and with students, assistants and programmers in their respective laboratories, will be able to influence research priorities, and will have a major role in designing and overseeing experiments. The appointment is made through Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, on a subcontract from Humboldt University’s Institute for Entrepreneurship. The postdoctoral fellow should expect to divide time, not necessarily equally, between work in New York and in Berlin. The position will begin at a mutually agreed upon time on or around January 1st, 2007. The fellow will be employed by Columbia University and offered a competitive salary and benefits package.
Applicants should send a curriculum vita with cover letter by e-mail to David H. Krantz (dhk@columbia. edu) by December 1st, 2006.
Columbia University is an equal-opportunity employer
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