Friederike Mengel (born March 27, 1979) is a German economist who is a Professor of economics at the University of Essex.
[1] Friederike Mengel earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Mainz in 2003, followed by a PhD in economics from the University of Alicante in 2008, under the supervision of Fernando Vega Redondo.
[3] Mengel's research areas are (evolutionary) game theory, learning, behavioral economics, social networks and experimental economics.
Learning across games can destabilize strict Nash equilibria even for arbitrarily small reasoning costs and even if players distinguish all the games at the stable point.
Her work uncovered that people pay attention to others network position when learning, but only partially and they do not update in a Bayesian way.