Workshop on

"Belief-Dependent Preferences"


June, Friday 28th – Saturday 29th, 2019

Center for Economic Behavior & Inequality (CEBI)

and Department of Economics

University of Copenhagen

June, Friday 28th

09:00 - 09:15: Welcome

09:15 - 10:45: Session 1

  • Elena Manzoni (University of Verona): On the transmission of guilt aversion

  • Giuseppe Attanasi (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis): Guilt aversion in (new) games: the role of vulnerability

  • Alec Smith (Virginia Tech): Anger, threats, and deterrence

10:45 - 11:00: Coffee

11:00 - 12:00: Keynote by

Georg Kirchsteiger (ECARES , Université libre de Bruxelles)

Title: On the efficiency notion in psychological games

12:00 - 13:00: Lunch

13:00 - 14:30: Session 2

  • Yeşim Orhun (University of Michigan): Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness

  • Kiryl Khalmetski (University of Cologne): Altruistic punishment as norm-signaling device

  • Sandro Ambuehl (University of Toronto): An offer you can't refuse? Incentives change how we inform ourselves and what we believe

14:30 - 15:00: Coffee

15:00 - 16:00: Keynote by

George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University)

Title: Thanking, Apologizing, Bragging and Blaming: The currency of communication

16:15 - 17:15: Session 3

  • David Gill (Purdue University): Cognitive skills and the development of strategic sophistication

  • Alexander Sebald (University of Copenhagen): Self-confidence and reactions to subjective performance evaluations

19:30 - Workshop Dinner: Restaurant Viva

June, Saturday 29th

09:00 - 10:30: Session 4

  • Martin Dufwenberg (University of Arizona): Regret Games

  • Nicolas Jacquemet (Paris School of Economics): Who’ll stop lying under oath? Experimental evidence from tax evasion games

  • Amrish Patel (University of East Anglia): Communication as Gift-Exchange

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee

11:00 - 12:00: Keynote by

Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University)

Title: A Theory of Chosen Preferences

12:00 - 13:30: Lunch + Poster (for Titles and Abstracts click: here)

13:30 - 15:00: Session 5

  • Florian Zimmermann (briq & University of Bonn): Associative Memory and Overreaction in Expectations

  • Johannes Meier (LMU Munich): Decomposing the Disposition Effect

  • Si Chen (University of Bonn): Knowing Enough to Think You Are Right

15:00 - 15:30: Coffee

15:30 - 17:00: Session 6

  • Stefano Papa (University of Rome / Sapienza): The Sound of Silence. A License to be selfish

  • Tobias Gesche (ETH Zurich): Persistent Bias in Advice-Giving

  • Arno Apffelstaedt (University of Cologne): "Fig Leaves" in Pro-Social Choice