WoBE@E

3rd Workshop in Behavioral Economics at the European

WoBE@E on Governance and Behavior

Applying Behavioral Science to the Design and Evaluation of Governance Policies

Date: December 19th-20th, 2024

Venue: Lecture Hall, Building G, Turia Campus, at the newly restored "San Juan Bautista" hospice, a gorgeous XVIII building by the old riverbed, in our Turia Campus, close to the old city center.

Organizing committee: Jordi Brandts (Economic Analysis Institute), Erique Fatas (Behavioral Economics Institute, Universidad Europea), Shaun Hargreaves-Heap (Department of Political Economy, King's College London) and Lina Restrepo-Plaza (Behavioral Economics Institute, Universidad Europea)

If you are interested in attending the workshop in person, please fill the registration form. All papers will be presented in-person. If you want to attend the workshop remotely, we kindly ask you to register first, and use the following MS Teams link.

There is NO registration fees for speakers or attendants and coffee breaks will be provided to all. Unfortunately, we cannot provide travel and accommodation support (other than to the three keynote invited speakers). If you are interested in attending the workshop online, please fill the registration form. You will receive a link to the email used in the registration. If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact us at enrique.fatas@universidadeuropea.es or linamaria.restrepo@universidadeuropea.es 

Program

December 19th

08:30 to 09:00 Registration

09:00 to 09:30 Inaugural welcome by Prof. Rosa Sanchidrián (Rector of Universidad Europea)

09:30 to 10:30 Keynote lecture 1 

Simon Gachter (Nottingham University)

The Complementarity of Good Institutions and Voluntary Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from 43 Societies

With Jonathan F. Schulz, George Mason University, and Christian Thöni, University of Lausanne 

10:30 to 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 to 13:00 Regular session #1

Governance and Political Institutions

Willem Sas (University of Stirling) - Externalities and the erosion of trust 

With Gianmarco Daniele (University of Milan and Bocconi University), Andrea F.M. Martinangeli (Burgundy School of Business), Francesco Passarelli (University of Turin) and Lisa Windsteiger (University of Salzburg)

Elif Tosun (Pompeu Fabra University) - Putting negotiation in context: The US vs Japan

With Daniel Navarro-Martinez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Shohei Yamamoto (Hitotsubashi University)

Eugenio Levi (Link Campus University in Rome) - Will Robots and AI Steal your Job? Public Opinion, Technological Change and Political Mobilization

With Giacomo Battiston (Berlin School of Economics), Federico Boffa (Free University of Bozen/Bolzano), Alberto Parmigiani (London School of Economics) and Steven Stillman (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

13:00 to 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 to 15:30 Keynote lecture 2

Jordi Brandts (CSIC)

Gender Gap in Social Status

With María Paz Espinosa (Basque Country University) and Ayça E. Giritligil (Bilgi Universitesi)

15:30 to 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 to 17:00 Regular session #2

Governance and competition

Guillermo Mateu (Universitat de Valencia) - The performance effects of multiple sources of stress: the case of math anxiety in managers

Tarek Jaber (Institute of Public Goods and Policies, CSIC) - Gender of the Opponent and Reaction to Competition Outcomes

With Claire Mollier (University of Paris Nanterre), Aurora García-Gallego (Universitat Jaume I), and Sarah Zaccagni (Aarhus Business School)

December 20th

09:00 to 09:30 Registration

09:30 to 10:30 Keynote lecture III 

Catherine De Vries (Bocconi University)

A Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism? 

10:30 to 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 to 13:00 Regular session #3

Governance and Gender

Manuel Muñoz (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, LISER) – How publicly targeting by group identities impacts take-up of educational opportunities

Shaun Hargreaves-Heap (King’s College London) - An experiment on intersectionality

With Eugenio Levi (Link Campus University in Rome) and Abhijit Ramalingam (Appalachian State University)

Lina Restrepo-Plaza (Universidad Europea) – Socioeconomic Reintegration of Female Inmates: A Dual-System Approach to Stigmatization Emergence

With Carolina Vecchio (Universidad del Norte), Sandra Rodríguez Acosta(Universidad del Norte), Edith Teresa Aristizábal Diaz-Granados (Universidad del Norte), y Santiago Alonso Díaz (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

13:00 to 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 to 15:30 Special session

Early career researchers’ session

Cristina Fernández (Universidad Europea) – Criminological Analysis of the Fight Against Corruption: The Protection of Whistleblowers in the Valencian Community

Miguel Abellán (Leuphana University Lueneburg) - Markets, social responsibility and the replacement logic

With Janina Kraus (Technical University of Clausthal) and Mario Mechtel (Leuphana University Lueneburg)

Ana Lleó Bono (Cambridge University) - Work Collaboration with Unequal Productivity: An Experimental Study

15:30 to 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 to 17:30 Regular session #4

Governance and soft interventions

Paulius Yamin (Paris Institute for Advanced Studies) - How do people interpret behavioral policy interventions? Narratives around a civic culture campaign

Enrique Fatas (Universidad Europea) – One Podcast at a Time: Mitigating Discrimination towards Migrants with Edutaintment

With Lina Restrepo-Plaza (Universidad Europea), Paula Rossiaco (World Bank) and Paulius Yamin (Paris Institute for Advanced Studies)

17:15 Farewell words by Dr. Carla de Paredes (Dean of the Social Sciences School)