The Foundations and Applications of Utility and Risk network

The Foundations and Applications of Utility and Risk network is an international professional alliance of distinguished researchers in Economics, Psychology, Statistics, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science and several disciplines from business schools such as Marketing, Decision Science, and Risk Management and Insurance.

On every even-numbered year beginning in 1982, there has been an international conference on Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory (FUR). The first FUR conference was held in Oslo, Norway in 1982 and was founded by Maurice Allais (1988 Nobel laureate) and Ole Hagen (Associate Professor, Norway School of Management). Since then the FUR conferences have been held in: Venice (1984), Aix-en-Provence (1986), Budapest (1988), Duke University – Durham (1990), Paris (1992), Oslo (1994), Mons(1997), Marrakech (1999), Torino (2001), Paris (2004), Rome (2006), Barcelona (2008), and Newcastle (2010).  This coming summer, it will be time to have the fifteenth biennial conference, FUR XV.  The Experimental Economics Center (ExCEN) and the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR) at Georgia State University submitted a successful collaborative proposal to the FUR Scientific Committee, in a bid to host the FUR XV conference in 2012.

FUR International Scientific Committee

Mohammed Abdellaoui, HEC Paris - École des Hautes
Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University
Manel Baucells, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona
Denis Bouyssou, University of Paris - Dauphine
David Budescu, Fordham University
Alain Chateauneuf, Paris School of Economics
Michèle Cohen, Paris School of Economics – Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne
Jürgen Eichberger, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Larry Epstein, Boston University
Peter Fishburn, Pioneer in the field of decision-making processes
Paolo Ghirardato, Universita di Torino
Itzhak Gilboa, HEC Paris - École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris
Christian Gollier, Universite de Toulouse
Simon Grant, Rice University
Glenn Harrison, Georgia State University
John Hey, University of York
Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University
Edi Karni, Johns Hopkins University
Peter Klibanoff, Northwestern University
Morten Lau, Durham University
Duncan Luce, University of California, Irvine
Mark Machina, University of California, San Diego
Massimo Marinacci, Universita Bocconi
Barbara Mellers, University of Pennsylvania
Aldo Montesano, Universita Bocconi
Bertrand Munier, Collège enseignants et laboratoires de l’ESTP
Robert Nau, Duke University
Drazen Prelec, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania
John Quiggin, University of Queensland
Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota
Rakesh Sarin, UCLA
David Schmeidler, Tel Aviv University
Uzi Segal, Boston College
Chris Starmer, University of Nottingham
Jean-Marc Tallon, CES - Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne
Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University
Peter Wakker, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Martin Weber, University of Mannheim
George Wu, University of Chicago