The workshop brings together outstanding senior researchers and young talents who work in the field of behavioral economics. During two intensive days of presentations, participants from all over the world will discuss recent research on the behavioral aspects of industrial organization and intertemporal decision making. The workshop is funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and Frankfurt School. Participation is by invitation only.
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Workshop in Behavioral Economics
Schedule at Room S3.02:
| Time | April 12, 2018 | April 13, 2018 |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome | Coffee |
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09:15 - 10:00 |
Yoram Halevy "Hard to Interpret Signals" |
Antonio Rosato "Loss Aversion in Common-Value Auctions: Extensive vs. Intensive Risk" |
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10:00 - 10:45 |
Johannes Johnen "Browsing versus Studying: A Pro-Market Case for Regulation" |
David Freeman "Revealing Naïveté and Sophistication from Procrastination and Preproperation" |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
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11:10 - 11:55 |
Songfa Zhong "Intertemporal Consumption with Risk: A Revealed Preference Analysis" |
Mats Köster "Salience and Skewness Preferences" |
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11:55 - 12:40 |
Takeshi Murooka "Procrastination and Learning about Self-Control" |
Manel Baucells "Range and Sign Dependent Utility for Risk and Time" |
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12:40 - 13:50 |
Lunch Executive Lounge |
Lunch Faculty Lounge |
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13:50 - 14:35 |
Helga Fehr-Duda "A Tale of Two Tails: Explaining the Underinsurance Puzzle" |
Yair Antler "Multilevel Marketing: Pyramid-Shaped Schemes or Exploitative Scams?" |
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14:35 - 15:20 |
Heidi Thysen "Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations" |
Michaela Pagel "Fully Closed: Individual Responses to Paper Versus Realized Capital Gains and Losses" |
| 15:20 - 15:45 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
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15:45 - 16:30 |
Kfir Eliaz "Strategic Interpretations" |
Drinks & End of Conference |
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16:30 - 17:15 |
Christian Gollier "Aversion to Risk of Regret and Preference for Positively Skewed Risks" |
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| 17:15 - 17:20 | Group photo | |
| 17:20 - 17:45 | Reception | |
| 18:30 |
Conference Dinner |
Optional Dinner Hirschhaus (Eckenheimer Landstraße 71) |
Invited Participants
| Yair Antler | University of Essex |
| Arno Apffelstaedt | University of Cologne |
| Manel Baucells | Darden School of Business, University of Virginia |
| Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt | University of Cologne |
| Kfir Eliaz | Tel Aviv University |
| Thomas Epper | University of St.Gallen |
| Helga Fehr-Duda | University of Zurich |
| David Freeman | Simon Fraser University |
| Guido Friebel | Goethe University |
| Christian Gollier | Toulouse School of Economics |
| Daniel Gottlieb | Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Yoram Halevy | University of Toronto |
| Erla Hronn Hardardottir | University of Southern Denmark |
| Paul Heidhues | Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics |
| Fabian Herweg | University of Bayreuth |
| Johannes Johnen | Université catholique de Louvain |
| Florian Kerzenmacher | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management |
| Michael Kosfeld | Goethe University |
| Mats Köster | Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics |
| Johannes Maier | Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich |
| Wanda Mimra | ETH Zurich |
| Takeshi Murooka | Osaka University |
| Michaela Pagel | Columbia Business School |
| Richard Peter | Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa |
| Antonio Rosato | Judge Business School, University of Cambridge |
| Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Ferdinand von Siemens | Goethe University |
| Heidi Thysen | London School of Economics |
| Stefan Trautmann | University of Heidelberg |
| Yilong Xu | University of Heidelberg |
| Songfa Zhong | National University of Singapore |
| Feibai Zhu-Schuetz | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management |
