【喜庆二十大・学术讲座】2023年9月25日（周一）13:30-15:00 周恕弘（新加坡国立大学、西南财经大学） 

讲座系列：前沿专题系列讲座第26场

讲座人：周恕弘（新加坡国立大学荣休教授、西南财经大学中国行为经济与行为金融研究中心特聘主任） 

时间：2023年9月25日（周一）13:30-15:00

地点：博学楼 1222

主持人：赵昕（对外经贸大学国际经济贸易学院经济学系讲师）

讲座题目：Attention Theory

讲座摘要：The human brain is miserly in minimizing energy expenditure constantly and unconsciously, giving rise to an unstable and context-sensitive attentional process. We propose an attention theory （AT） where the dynamically changing utility of a lottery emerges from attention-induced decision weights that are potentially volatile. When top-down attention is stable, AT exhibits transitivity in binary choice along with standard Allais behavior. When attention is unstable, AT can be intransitive and exhibit expected-utility conforming behavior in the correlated common-consequence problem if and only if its bivariate attention function is symmetric, coinciding formally with Regret Theory and Salience Theory. In addition, valuing lotteries individually under unstable attention yields a form of complexity aversion with the more complex lottery being evaluated using a less value-enhancing attention function. Incorporating the influence of stimulus-driven salience, AT yields context sensitive choice, which may appear random, when distinct attention functions are applied to similar lotteries.

主讲人简介：Chew Soo Hong周恕弘（新加坡国立大学、西南财经大学） 周恕弘教授是新加坡国立大学的荣休教授、西南财经大学中国行为经济与行为金融研究中心特聘主任，计量经济学会院士、经济学理论促进学会（SAET）院士（Fellow），世界著名的实验经济学家和行为经济学家，曾执教于美国亚利桑那大学、约翰·霍普金斯大学、加州大学尔湾分校、香港科技大学。其在经济学以及其他学科顶级权威期刊比如 Econometrica，Journal of Political Economy,Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory,Neuron,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,Management Science等共发表过学术论文六十余篇。

讲座人主页：

https://ccbef.swufe.edu.cn/info/1140/1625.htm