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Itzhak Gilboa

Itzhak Gilboa

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Economics and Finance
Israel
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
56
Citations
25688
World Ranking
975
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Israel Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Israel Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2000 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1992 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Itzhak Gilboa is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and specializes in Decision Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including General Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research, Artificial Intelligence, and Economics and Econometrics.

The primary focus of Gilboa's work lies in Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, with contributions to Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Game Theory and Applications, Economic theories and models, Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference, as well as Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge. The scientist also explores the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

Gilboa has published research extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Revue économique
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • LillOA (Université de Lille (University Of Lille))
  • Research in Economics
  • Games and Economic Behavior

Recent papers authored by Gilboa cover topics related to decision-making and policy, some examples include:

  • The rational policymaking during a pandemic, 2021, LillOA (Université de Lille (University Of Lille))
  • Uncertainty and Decision-Making During a Crisis: How to Make Policy Decisions in the COVID-19 Context?, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The complexity of the consumer problem, 2021, Research in Economics
  • Theories and cases in decisions under uncertainty, 2020, Games and Economic Behavior
  • Learning (to disagree?) in large worlds, 2020, Journal of Economic Theory

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gilboa include Larry Samuelson, Stefania Minardi, Loïc Berger, Nicolas Berger, and Valentina Bosetti, highlighting ongoing partnerships in scholarly contributions.

The scientist has received several notable recognitions, such as being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018, a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2000, and receiving a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1992.

Best Publications

  • MAxmin expected utility with non-unique prior

    Itzhak Gilboa;David Schmeidler;David Schmeidler

  • Maxmin Expected Utility with a Non-Unique Prior

    Itzhak Gilboa;David Schmeidler

  • EXPECTED UTILITY WITH PURELY SUBJECTIVE NON-ADDITIVE PROBABILITIES

    Itzhak Gilboa

  • Case-Based Decision Theory

    Itzhak Gilboa;David Schmeidler

  • Theory of decision under uncertainty

    Itzhak Gilboa

  • A theory of case-based decisions

    Itzhak Gilboa;David Schmeidler

  • Updating Ambiguous Beliefs

    Itzhak Gilboa;David Schmeidler

  • Objective and Subjective Rationality in a Multiple Prior Model

    Itzhak Gilboa;Fabio Maccheroni;Massimo Marinacci;David Schmeidler

  • Nash and Correlated Equilibria: Some Complexity Considerations

    Itzhak Gilboa;Eitan Zemel

  • Social Stability and Equilibrium

    Itzhak Gilboa;Akihiko Matsui

  • Ambiguity and the Bayesian Paradigm

    Itzhak Gilboa;Massimo Marinacci

  • Additive Representations of Non-Additive Measures and the Choquet Integral

    Itzhak Gilboa;David Schmeidler

  • Fact free learning

    Enriqueta Aragones;Itzhak Gilboa;Andrew Postlewaite;David Schmeidler

  • Probability and Uncertainty in Economic Modeling

    Itzhak Gilboa;Andrew Postlewaite;David Schmeidler

  • Utilitarian Aggregation of Beliefs and Tastes

    Itzhak Gilboa;Dov Samet;David Schmeidler

  • Linear Measures, the Gini Index, and The Income-Equality Trade-off

    Elchanan Ben Porath;Itzhak Gilboa

  • Is It Always Rational to Satisfy Savage's Axioms?

    Itzhak Gilboa;Andrew Postlewaite;David Schmeidler

  • SHARING BELIEFS: BETWEEN AGREEING AND DISAGREEING

    Antoine Billot;Alain Chateauneuf;Itzhak Gilboa;Jean-Marc Tallon

  • Bounded Versus Unbounded Rationality: The Tyranny of the Weak

    Itzhak Gilboa;Dov Samet

  • On the Measurement of Inequality under Uncertainty

    Elchanan Ben-Porath;Elchanan Ben-Porath;Itzhak Gilboa;David Schmeidler;David Schmeidler

  • Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Ambiguity and the Bayesian Paradigm

    Itzhak Gilboa;Massimo Marinacci

  • Probability and Uncertainty in Economic Modeling

    I. Gilboa;W. A. Postlewaite;D. Schmeidler

Frequent Co-Authors

David Schmeidler
David Schmeidler Tel Aviv University
Larry Samuelson
Larry Samuelson Yale University
Andrew Postlewaite
Andrew Postlewaite University of Pennsylvania
Dov Samet
Dov Samet Tel Aviv University
Massimo Marinacci
Massimo Marinacci Bocconi University
Ehud Kalai
Ehud Kalai Northwestern University
Fabio Maccheroni
Fabio Maccheroni Bocconi University
Peter P. Wakker
Peter P. Wakker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Richard Smith
Richard Smith University of Exeter
Eva Gilboa-Schechtman
Eva Gilboa-Schechtman Bar-Ilan University

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