Program for RUD 2021

Monday 14 June

Please note: all times are CST


9:00 - 9:05: Introductory Remarks/Admin Announcements: Jan Werner and Aldo Rustichini


Session 1 - Stochastic Choice

9:05 - 9:20: Emel Filiz-Ozbay, “Progressive Random Choice”

9:20 - 9:35: Andrew Ellis, “Subjective Casualty in Choice”

9:35 - 9:50: Christopher Turansick, “Influence and Correlated Choice”


Session 2 - Theory 1

10:00 - 10:15: Paul Cheung, “Choice with Recommendations”

10:15 - 10:30: Lorenzo Bastianello, "Put-Call Parities, absence of arbitrage opportunities and Choquet pricing rules”

10:30 - 10:45: John Quah, “Ever Since Allais”


10:45 - 11:15: Break for informal chats/meetings


Session 3 - Theory 2

11:15 - 11:30: Lukasz Wozny, “Time consistent equilibria in dynamic models with recursive payoffs and behavioral discounting”

11:30 - 11:45: Evan Calford, “Mixed strategies and preference for randomization in games with ambiguity averse agents”

11:45 - 12:00: Youngsoo Heo, “Uncertainty Aversion With Multiple Issues”


Session 4 - Axiomatic 1

12:05 - 12:20: Lasse Mononen, “On Preference for Simplicity, Probability Weighting, and Expected Utility”

12:20 - 12:35: Paul Karehnke, “Skewness Preferences in Choice under Risk”

12:35 - 12:50: Evan Piermont, “Hypothetical Expected Utility”


12:50 - 2:00: Break for informal chats/meetings


Tuesday 15 June

Please note: all times are CST


9:00 - 9:05: Possible admin announcements


Session 1 - Theory 3

9:05 - 9:20: Pawel Dziewulski, “A comprehensive revealed preference approach to approximate utility maximisation and non-transitive indifferences”

9:20 - 9:35: Pietro Ortoleva, “Caution and Reference Effects”

9:35 - 9:50: Chiaki Hara, “Comparative Ambiguity Aversion for Smooth Utility Functions”



Session 2 - Experimental 1

10:00 - 10:15: Craig Webb, “An Effective and Simple Tool for Measuring Loss Aversion”

10:15 - 10:30: Yan Xu, “Revealed Preferences over Experts and Quacks and Failures of Contingent Reasoning”

10:30 - 10:45: Brian Hill, “Eliciting Multiple Prior Beliefs”


10:45 - 11:15: Break for informal chats/meetings


Session 3 - GE/Finance

11:15 - 11:30: Christian Gollier, “The welfare cost of ignoring the beta”

11:30 - 11:45: Jaime Zender, “Ambiguity and Corporate Yield Spreads”

11:45 - 12:00: Patrick Beissner, “Optimal Allocations with α-MaxMin Utilities, Choquet Expected Utilities, and Prospect Theory"


Session 4 - Theory 4

12:05 - 12:20: Marie-Louise Vierø, “Comparative Incompleteness: Measurement, Behavioral Manifestations and Elicitation”

12:20 - 12:35: Weijie Zhong, “Information acquisition and time-risk preference”

12:35 - 12:50: Edi Karni, “Ranking of Experiments”


12:50 - 2:00: Break for informal chats/meetings



Wednesday 16 June

Please note: all times are CST


9:00 - 9:05: Announcement


Session 1 - Intertemporal

9:05 - 9:20: Federico Echenique, “Decreasing impatience”

9:20 - 9:35: Yonatan Aumann, “On Time Discounting, Impatience, Precaution And Risk Aversion”

9:35 - 9:50: Michal Lewandowski, “Preferences over Risky Payoff Streams: Normative and Descriptive Approaches”


Session 2 - Experimental 2

10:00 - 10:15: Tigran Melkonyan, “Reverse Bayesianism: Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events”

10:15 - 10:30: Christian Zimpelmann, “The Distribution of Ambiguity Attitudes”

10:30 - 10:45: Illia Pasichnichenko, Testing Negative Value of Information and Ambiguity Aversion”


10:45 - 11:15: Break for informal chats/meetings


Session 3 - Theory 5

11:15 - 11:30: Juergen Eichberger, “Cases and States”

11:30 - 11:45: Adam Dominiak, “Minimum Distance Belief Updating with General Information”

11:45 - 12:00: Modibo Camara, “Hadwiger Separability, or: Turing meets von Neumann and Morgenstern”


Session 4 - Axiomatic 2

12:05 - 12:20: Mu Zhang, “A Theory of Choice Bracketing under Risk”

12:20 - 12:35: Tommaso Denti, “Model and predictive uncertainty: A foundation for smooth ambiguity preferences”

12:35 - 12:50: Roberto Corrao, “Common Rational Preferences”



12:50 - 2:00: Break for informal chats/meetings