Faculty: Andreas D. Pape
andreas.pape@oberlin.edu

Andreas Duus Pape, OC '98, is completing his doctorate in Economics  at the University of Michigan, where he earned his Masters in  Economics in 2003.  His teaching and research interests are in microeconomic theory and decision theory and he is also interested in agent-based computer simulation of individual behavior.  His main  research interest is: how agents construct and use models of new  phenomena, and what model-making agents means for economic prediction.  His most recent work, "Agent's Causal Models and theWinner's Curse," describes agents who observe the same data but make different causal inferences, leading to misallocation in the auction which follows.  He is interested in the complex systems approach to 
modeling agent activity and has incorporated formal work from artificial intelligence into his models, and is implementing this research in computer simulation.  He also works on a project developing an agent-based simulation of industrial network growth to address questions of sustainable development, where his models of individual behavior under new information play a role.