Erik Mohlin

Erik Mohlin is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics at Lund University. His research focuses on game theory, particularly evolutionary game theory, learning, and bounded rationality, with applications to cooperation, institutions, categorization, and social norms.

His work contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals related to economics. Key collaborations include researchers such as Friederike Duell, Francesco Mengel, and Simon Weidenholzer. Projects include Models of Conceptualisation and Categorisation in Social and Economic Interactions (funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation) and The Role of Internal Motivation and External Sanctions in Supporting Prosocial Behaviour (Swedish Research Council).

• Research Themes: Evolutionary game theory, collective punishment, social norms, institutional design
• Key Methodologies: Formal modeling, behavioral experiments, stochastic analysis
• Recent Trends: Focus on cooperation mechanisms in decentralized systems, moral signaling, third-party enforcement, and social duties

He supervises PhD students, organizes academic events like the Learning Evolution Games (LEG) conference, and serves as a peer reviewer for journals. His network includes collaborations with institutions in Europe and beyond.