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We are pleased to announce our Best Paper/Poster Award to:
We are pleased to announce our Best Paper/Poster Award to:
Best Paper Award: Stan Cheung and Milena Jessen
Best Poster Award: Mingzhao Dai and Fidel Petros
Day 1
July 6th, 2026
July 6th, 2026
Registration 9:00 - 9:30
9.30 - 10.30
Keynote: The Welfare Economics of Social Responsibility
Keynote: The Welfare Economics of Social Responsibility
Botond Köszegi - University of Bonn
Coffee Break 10.30 - 11.00
Session 1 - Micro Theory
11.00 - 11.45
Digital Advertising Auctions with Asymmetric Consumer Information
Digital Advertising Auctions with Asymmetric Consumer Information
Alessandro Veneri (European Unviersity Institute)
Discussant: Jia Wei Zhang (HU Berlin)
11.45 - 12.30
Price Competition with Network Spillovers: Entry, Cohesiveness and Interoperability
Price Competition with Network Spillovers: Entry, Cohesiveness and Interoperability
Yifan Zhang (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Yushan Meng (University of Konstanz)
Lunch 12.30 - 13.30
Poster Presentation (Micro Theory) 13.30 - 14.30
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Bayesian Persuasion with State-Dependent Signal Spaces, Mingzhao Dai (Berlin School of Economics/ Free University of Berlin)
Optimal Information in the Delegation Problem, Kiril Lavrov (University of Zurich)
Persuade before Evidence, Yushan Meng (Universität Konstanz)
Entry Coordination in Auctions with Entry Costs, Jia Wei Zhang (Berlin School of Econmics/HU Berlin)
Session 2 - Behavioral Economics
14.30 - 15.15
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc? Side Effect Misattribution and Vaccine Hesitancy
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc? Side Effect Misattribution and Vaccine Hesitancy
Anton Arbman Hansing (Stockholm University)
Discussant: Renke Schmacker (DIW and WZB Berlin)
15.15 - 16.00
Mislearning from Selected Crime Data: Selection Neglect and Statistical Discrimination in Policing
Mislearning from Selected Crime Data: Selection Neglect and Statistical Discrimination in Policing
Juan B. González (University of South California)
Discussant: Julia Baumann (HU Berlin and WZB Berlin)
Coffee Break 16.00 - 16.30
Session 3 - Micro Theory
16.30 - 17.15
Pay to Quit: Robust Team Incentives with Hidden Need
Pay to Quit: Robust Team Incentives with Hidden Need
Youngji Sohn (University of Warwick)
Discussant: Christopher Stapenhurst (Brandenburg University of Technology)
17.15 - 18.00
Endogenous Reference Points and Risk Attitudes
Endogenous Reference Points and Risk Attitudes
Charlotte Hervy (Pompeu Fabra University)
Discussant: Paul Rosmer (HU Berlin)
BENA Welcome Reception from 18.30 (by invitation only)
Location: WZB Berlin, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin
Day 2
July 7th, 2026
July 7th, 2026
Session 4 - Behavioral Economics
9.30 - 10.15
Uncovering and Addressing Disparity in Cross-group Inference: The Mismeasure of Women
Uncovering and Addressing Disparity in Cross-group Inference: The Mismeasure of Women
Peter Ward-Griffin (London School of Economics)
Discussant: Simona Sartor (HU Berlin)
10.15 - 11.00
(Mis)anticipated Discrimination: Experimental Evidence on Misperceived Beliefs Perpetuating Inequality
(Mis)anticipated Discrimination: Experimental Evidence on Misperceived Beliefs Perpetuating Inequality
Ethan O’Leary (Norwegian School of Economics)
Discussant: Sueda Evirgen (WZB Berlin)
Coffee Break 11.00 - 11.30
Session 5 - Micro Theory
11.30 - 12.15
Information Provision with Endogenous States
Information Provision with Endogenous States
Sanjari Kalantri (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Weichu Wang (HU Berlin)
12.15 - 13.00
Robust Information Disclosure and Buyer Learning
Robust Information Disclosure and Buyer Learning
Terrence McGovern (University of Bonn)
Discussant: Kiril Lavrov (University of Zurich)
Lunch 13.00 - 14.30
Session 6 - Behavioral Economics
14.30 - 15.15
Does Teamwork undermine crowd wisdom?
Does Teamwork undermine crowd wisdom?
Daniel Evans (University of Bonn)
Discussant: David Albrecht (WZB Berlin)
15.15 - 16.00
Shared Responsibilities for Inconvenient Information: An Experimental Study
Shared Responsibilities for Inconvenient Information: An Experimental Study
Hwee Bin Koh (University of Mannheim)
Discussant: Jonas Kaiser (TU Berlin)
Coffee Break 16.00 - 16.30
Session 7 - Micro Theory
16.30 - 17.15
The Existence of Pareto Efficient and Envy Free: random allocations in generalized settings
The Existence of Pareto Efficient and Envy Free: random allocations in generalized settings
Anna Vakarova (University of California, Berkeley)
Discussant: Christian Basteck (WZB Berlin)
17.15 - 18.00
Calling the Price or Making the Call? Role Preferences in Texas Shootout Clauses
Calling the Price or Making the Call? Role Preferences in Texas Shootout Clauses
Lars Müller (Bielefeld University)
Discussant: Mingzhao Dai (FU Berlin)
Day 3
July 8th, 2026
July 8th, 2026
Session 8 - Micro Theory
9.30 - 10.15
Assistance-proofness in ranking aggregation
Assistance-proofness in ranking aggregation
Ryoga Doi (Keio University)
Discussant: Yixuan Shi (Max Planck Institute - Tax Law and Public Finance)
10.15 - 11.00
Social Welfare Equilibrium
Social Welfare Equilibrium
Stan Cheung (Queen Mary University of London)
Discussant: Gabriel Ziegler (FU Berlin)
Coffee Break 11.00 - 11.30
Session 9 - Behavioral Economics
11.30 - 12.15
Hierarchical Representations
Hierarchical Representations
Milena Jessen (University of Bonn)
Discussant: Fidel Petros (WZB Berlin)
12.15 - 13.00
Attention Allocation under Scarcity: Theory & Experiment
Attention Allocation under Scarcity: Theory & Experiment
Patrick Sewell (Pompeu Fabra University)
Discussant: Luca Cocco (HU Berlin)
Lunch 13.00 - 14.00
Poster Presentation (Behavioral Economics) 14.00 - 15.00
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Ethics of Fact Checking, Irem Cetiner (Berlin School of Econmics/HU Berlin)
Ambition Without Admission: Gender Gaps in College Admissions in Brazil, Tanzhou Liu (University of Lausanne)
Informed Choices: Impact of labor market information on university application behaviour, Lukas Maschmann (Lund University)
Concerns about rising Prices may raise Prices, Fidel Petros (WZB Berlin & Berlin School of Economics)
Ego-relevance and motivated preference reporting in strategy-proof school choice mechanisms, Sabrina Rittinger (Ulm University)
Learning with AI, Yuqing Zhao (Lund University)
Session 10 - Behavioral Economics
15.45 - 16.30
Misperceived Social Norms: A Unified Framework
Misperceived Social Norms: A Unified Framework
Raquel Lorenzo (Pompeu Fabra University)
Discussant: Irem Cetiner (HU Berlin)
Coffee Break 16.30 - 17.00
17.00 - 18.00
Keynote: Optimal Belief Equilibrium
Keynote: Optimal Belief Equilibrium
Jeanne Hagenbach - CNRS, Sciences Po
Conference Dinner and Best Paper Award
at TorEins, Möckernstrasse 26, 10963 Berlin
from 19.00 (by invitation only)
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