Behavioral neuroeconomics toward a post-Covid19 society

Abstract

For preventing and controlling Covid-19 infections, it is important to incorporate models in behavioral economics into optimal control policies. Also, the pandemic significantly impacts our psychological states such as anxiety and fear. It is therefore important to incorporate findings in neuroeconomics -- a discipline studying the neural information processing underlying economic decisions -- into policy making. In this talk, models in behavioral economics such as hyperbolic discounting are introduced in relation to decisions over the future post-Covid-19 age.