Professor

Sergiu Hart

Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Economist; Mathematician; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Economics
Elected
2016
International Honorary Member

Sergiu Hart has made field-shaping contributions in many areas, particularly in game theory and economic theory, with additional contributions in mathematics, computer science, probability and statistics. Among his major contributions are studies of values of games; strategic use of information and communication in long-term interactions ("repeated games"); adaptive, learning and evolutionary dynamics, particularly with boundedly rational agents; characterizing which dynamic processes can and canot lead to equilibrium outcomes; perfect economic competition and its relations to models of fair distribution; strategic foundations of cooperation; riskiness indices and orderings; simplicity and complexity in mechanism design. 

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