Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31361 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 08-4
Publisher: 
University of California, Department of Economics, Davis, CA
Abstract: 
Neuroeconomics focuses on brain imaging studies mapping neural responses to choice behavior. Economic theory is concerned with choice behavior but it is silent on neural activities. We present a game theoretic model in which players are endowed with an additional structure - a simple ``nervous system' - and interact repeatedly in changing games. The nervous system constrains information processing functions and behavioral functions. By reinterpreting results from evolutionary game theory (Germano, 2007), we suggest that nervous systems can develop to ``function well' in exogenously changing strategic environments. We present an example indicating that an analogous conclusion fails if players can influence endogenously their environment.
JEL: 
C72
C73
C90
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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