The 4th Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference

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FAIR - The Choice Lab hosts The 4th Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference

We are happy to announce that the 4th Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference will take place in Bergen on 20-21 of June, 2018. The conference will be hosted by FAIR - The Choice Lab at NHH Norwegian School of Economics. Professor Alexander Cappelen and Professor Bertil Tungodden will be the keynote speakers.

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Programme, June 20
08.45-09.00

Opening Remarks
09.00-10.30

Session 1: Behavioral Economics and Politics
 

How Strategic are Political Activists? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Johannes Hermle (Berkeley) – with L. Hensel, A. Rink and C. Roth  

Discussant: Dominik Duell (University of Essex)

Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement 

David Yang (Stanford) – with D. Cantoni, N. Yuchtman and Y.J. Zhang 

Discussant: Alex Coutts (Nova School of Business and Economics)

Moral Values and Voting: Trump and Beyond  

Benjamin Enke (Harvard)  

Discussant: Teodora Boneva (UCL)  
10.30-11.00

Coffee Break
11.00-12.30

Session 2: Evidence from Lab Experiments
 

Concentration Bias in Intertemporal Choice  

Frederik Schwerter (Harvard) – with M. Dertwinkel-Kalt, H. Gerhardt, G. Riener and L. Strang  

Discussant: Jack Willis (Columbia University)

Team Structure and Lying - The Honest Leader Effect

Anastasia Danilov (University of Cologne) – with B. Irlenbusch, R. Rilke, S. Shalvi and O. Weisel

Discussant: Christopher Roth (University of Oxford)

Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand  

Jonathan de Quidt (IIES) – with J. Haushofer and C. Roth  

Discussant: Adam Altmejd (Stockholm School of Economics)
12.30-14.00

Lunch
14.00-16.00

Session 3: Racial Attitudes and Discrimination
 

Beliefs about Racial Discrimination: Representative Evidence  

Ingar Haaland (NHH) – with C. Roth 

Discussant: Eleonora Freddi (Tilburg University)

Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration  

Christopher Roth (University of Oxford) – with I. Haaland  

Discussant: Menush Khadjavi (University of Kiel)

Shocking Racial Attitudes: Black G.I.’s in Europe 

David Schindler (Tilburg University) – with M. Westcott  

Discussant: Maja Adena (WZB Berlin)

Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration  

Matt Lowe (MIT)  

Discussant: Syon Bhanot (Swarthmore College) 
16.00-16.30

coffee break
16.30-17.30

Keynote Lecture: Alexander Cappelen (NHH)
 19.00

Conference Dinner at The Fløien Folkerestaurant

 

Programme, june 21
08.00-09.00

Breakfast
09.00-10.30

Session 4: Consumer Finance and Credit Behavior

Selective Attention in Consumer Finance: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in the Credit Card Market

Paolina Medina (Texas A&M University)  

Discussant: Lisa Spantig (University of Munich)  

Credit Aversion

Sean Hundtofte (NY Fed) 

Discussant: Joerg Weber (University of Nottingham)

Fully Closed: Individual Responses to Realized Capital Gains and Losses

Michaela Pagel (Columbia University) – with S. Meyer  

Discussant: Johannes Wohlfart (Goethe University Frankfurt)
10.30-11.00

Coffee Break
11.00-12.30

Session 5: Bargaining, Stereotypes and Social Recognition

The Power to Protect: Household Bargaining and Female Condom Use

Rachel Cassidy (Institute for Fiscal Studies) – with M.G. Bruinderink, W. Janssens and K. Morsink  

Discussant: Amma Panin (University of Oxford)

Stereotypes and Self-Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias 

Michela Carlana (Bocconi)  

Discussant: Joshua Dean (MIT)  

The Welfare Effects of Social Recognition: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment with the YMCA

Luigi Butera (University of Chicago) – with R. Metcalfe and D. Taubinsky   

Discussant: Michael Yeomans (Harvard) 
12.30-14.00

lunch
14.00-16.00

Session 6: Beliefs and Information  

Narrow Inference 

Thomas Graeber (University of Bonn)  

Discussant: Kai Barron (WZB Berlin) 

Payoff-Based Belief Distortion 

Peiran Jiao (Maastricht University)  

Discussant: Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch (Humboldt University)

Attention and Selection Effects

Sandro Ambuehl (University of Toronto) – with A. Ockenfels, C. Steward 

Discussant: Adrian Hillenbrand (Max Planck Institute)

Attribution Bias, (Un)sophistication, and Strategic Confusion in Punishment Decisions

Andy Brownback (University of Arkansas) – with M. Kuhn  

Discussant: Marco Schwarz (University of Innsbruck)   
16.00-16.30

Coffee Break
16.30-17.30

Keynote Lecture: Bertil Tungodden (NHH)
19.30

Informal Dinner and Drinks 

 

 

 

 

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