Virtual Experimental Economics Seminar Series
Thursdays at noon Eastern (NYC) Time
We have been running a virtual experimental economics seminar series most Thursdays since June 2020. The series is open to all researchers. To attend, please sign up below. We will send out a Zoom link shortly before the talk is scheduled to begin. Talks are scheduled for 45 minutes plus 15 minutes of questions.
Upcoming Talks (Winter/Spring 2024):
May 2nd. Ragan Petrie. "My Neighbor Next Floor: The Built Environment and Social Preference."
May 16th. Katie Coffman. "Choosing and Using Information in Evaluation Decisions."
Past Events
Spring 2024
April 18, 2024. Julien Senn. "The Fundamental Properties, Stability, and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences."
April 4, 2024. Fabio Galeotti. "The Power of Leadership in Changing Social Norms in Heterogeneous Societies."
March 28, 2024. Luba Petersen. "Why don't history-dependent monetary policies work?"
March 14, 2024 Thomas Graeber. "The Supply and Interpretation of Explanations."
February 29, 2024 Florian Schneider. "What Money Shouldn’t Buy: Aversion to Monetary Incentives for Health Behaviors"
February 15, 2024. Ola Andersson. "Context Effects under Ambiguity."
January 25, 2024. Yoram Halevy. "Difficult Decisions."
January 11, 2024. Sherry Li. "I Work So I Choose: An Experiment on Worker Performance and Autonomy with Corporate Social Responsibility."
Fall 2023
December 7, 2023. Ingar Haaland. "Misperceived Returns to Active Investing."
November 30, 2023. Katy Milkman. "How Do Free Rides and Text Reminders Affect COVID-19 Vaccinations? A 3.5-Million Person Megastudy."
November 9, 2023. Brian Jabarian. "A Two Ball Ellsberg Paradox."
October 26, 2023. Rachel Kranton. "Competition, Cooperation, and Motivated Social Persuasion."
October 19, 2023. Aislinn Bohren. "Over- and Underreaction to Information."
October 5, 2023. Mark Dean. "Rational Choice Overload." Link to video.
Spring 2023
May 25, 2023. Emel Filiz-Ozbay. "Consideration and Choice."
May 11, 2023. Sigrid Suetens. "Ethnic Salience and Discrimination."
April 27, 2023. Silvia Saccardo. "Assessing Nudge Scalability" Link to video.
April 14, 2023. Matthew Rabin. "Expectations and Experiments."
March 16, 2023. Cary Frydman. "Insensitive Investors." Link to video.
March 2, 2023. Kathleen Ngangoue. "The Resolution of Uncertainty in Value and Probability Domains."
February 16, 2023. Egon Tripodi. "The Limits of Social Recognition: Experimental Evidence from Blood Donors."
February 2, 2023. Simon Gächter. "Why people follow rules." Link to video.
January 26, 2023. Chris Roth. "Narratives about the Macroeconomy."
January 12, 2023. Al Roth. "Regulation of Organ Transplantation and Procurement: A Market Design Lab Experiment" Link to video.
Fall 2022
December 15, 2022. Kwabena Donkor. "Identity and Economic Incentives." Link to video
December 1, 2022. Arno Apffelstaedt. "'Figleafing' and Self-Serving Behavior."
November 17, 2022. Pietro Ortoleva. "On the Relation between Willingness to Accept, Willingness to Pay, and Loss Aversion."
November 3, 2022. Ryan Oprea. "Simplicity Equivalents."
October 20, 2022. Sevgi Yuksel. "Discrimination Without Reason: Biases in Statistical Discrimination."
October 6th, 2022. Terri Kneeland. "Is Bounded Reasoning about Rationality Driven by Limited Ability?"
September 15, 2022. Steffen Huck. "How Trump Triumphed: Multi-Candidate Primaries with Buffoons."
September 8, 2022. Silvia Sonderegger. "Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose and Polarized Norms" Link to video
Spring 2022
June 30, 2022. Florian Zimmermann. "Stories, Statistics and Memory"
June 23, 2022. Leeat Yariv. "The Evolution of Networks and Homophily" Link to video
June 2, 2022. Yeşim Orhun. "Motivated Optimism and Workplace Risk"
May 12, 2022. Alexander Cappelen. "Fairness Across the World: preferences and beliefs" Link to video
May 5, 2022. Kirby Nielsen. "Distinguishing Common-Ratio Preferences from Common-Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks"
April 21, 2022. Kai Barron. "Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination: A hiring experiment"
April 14, 2022. Thomas Palfrey. "Bilateral Conflict: An Experimental Study of Strategic Effectiveness and Equilibrium"
April 7, 2022. David Rand. "Understanding and Reducing Online Misinformation Across 16 Countries on Six Continents" Link to video
March 24, 2022. Stefano DellaVigna. "Bottlenecks for Policy Experiments"
March 17, 2022. Isabelle Brocas. "Dynamic coordination in efficient and fair strategies: a developmental perspective"
March 10, 2022. Felix Kölle. "Understanding Cooperation in an Intertemporal Context" Link to video
February 24, 2022. Gary Charness. "Improving children’s food choices: Experimental evidence from the field" Link to video
February 17, 2022. Chloe Tergiman. "The Way People Lie in Markets: Detectable vs. Deniable Lies"
February 10, 2022. Leonardo Bursztyn. "Justifying Dissent"
January 20, 2022. Rosemarie Nagel. "Iterated Reasoning and Efficiency Heuristics, and a Behavioral Taxonomy of 2x2 Games"
Fall 2021
December 16, 2021. John List. "The Voltage Effect in Behavioral Economics" Link to video
December 9, 2021. Nageeb Ali. "Do People Identify and Exploit Weak Bargaining Partners?"
December 2, 2021. Isabel Trevino. "Uncovering Biases in Information Choice and its Use: Individual vs Strategic Decision-Making"
November 18, 2021. Alex Brown. "Preferences for the Resolution of Risk and Ambiguity" Link to video
November 4, 2021. Ben Enke. "Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice" Link to video
October 14, 2021. Tatiana Kornienko. "Facing the Grim Truth: Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Against Robot Opponents."
September 30, 2021. Victoria Prowse. "Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes"
September 16, 2021. Lorenz Goette. "The habit-forming effects of feedback: evidence from a large-scale field experiment" Link to video
September 9. 2021. Björn Bartling. "Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the United States."
Spring 2021
June 17, 2021. Georg Weizsäcker. "Co-audience Neglect"
June 10, 2021. Topi Miettinen. "The Role of Reporting Institutions and Image Motivation in Tax evasion and Incidence"
June 3, 2021. Daniel Martin. "A Robust Test of Prejudice for Discrimination Experiments"
May 20, 2021. Danila Serra. "Gender and leadership in organizations: Promotions, demotions and angry workers" Link to video
May 13, 2021. Salvatore Nunnari. "Cognitive Imprecision and Strategic Behavior"
May 6, 2021. Stephanie Wang. "Can Deliberation Change Opinions and Votes? Experimental Evidence from a Rent Control Ballot Measure"
April 29, 2021. Miguel Costa-Gomes. "Cursed Bets on Markets"
April 22, 2021. Jean-Robert Tyran. "Civic Engagement, The Leverage Effect and the Accountable State" Link to video
April 15, 2021. Roberto Weber. "What Money Can Buy: How Market Exchange Promotes Values"
April 8, 2021. Erik Wengström. "Threshold Incentives and Academic Performance"
March 25, 2021. Alistair Wilson. "Lying Aversion on the Margins." Link to video
March 18, 2021. Daniele Nosenzo. "Equal before the (expressive power of) law?" Link to video
March 11, 2021. Johannes Abeler. "Malleability of preferences for honesty" Link to video
March 4, 2021. Agne Kajackaite. "Lying for Image." Link to video
February 25, 2021. Johanna Mollerstrom. "A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior." Link to video
February 18, 2021. Dorothea Kübler. "How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems" Link to video
February 11, 2021. Charlie Plott. "Economic Theory and Experimental Methods Applied to Change a Complex Administrative Decision Process: Improving School Transportation for Disadvantaged Students" Link to video
February 4, 2021. Emanuel Vespa. "Mental Models and Learning: The Case of Base-Rate Neglect"
January 28, 2021. Marta Serra Garcia. "Mistakes, Overconfidence, and the Effect of Sharing on Detecting Lies"
January 21, 2021. Eugen Dimant. "Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences." Link to video
January 14, 2021. Yan Chen. "Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy." Link to video
Fall 2020
December 10, 2020. Bertil Tungodden. "Fairness across the world: Preferences and Beliefs" Link to video
November 19, 2020. Armin Falk. "Limited Self-knowledge and Survey Response Behavior"
November 12, 2020. PJ Healy. "Testing Elicitation Mechanisms Via Team Chat" Link to video
November 5, 2020. Catherine Eckel. "The Democratic Peace: An experimental test of a causal relation and of underlying mechanisms"
October 29, 2020. Daniela Puzzello. "Quantifying framing effects in public goods versus prisoner’s dilemma repeated games" Link to video
October 22, 2020. Joël van der Weele. "Anticipatory anxiety and wishful thinking" Link to video
October 15, 2020. Anna Dreber Almenberg. "Replications and predicting replication outcomes"
October 1, 2020. Christine Exley. "The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion." Link to video
September 24, 2020. John Duffy. "Bargaining Under Liquidity Constraints: Nash vs. Kalai in the Laboratory." Link to video
September 17, 2020. Alex Imas. "Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field." Link to video
Summer 2020
August 20, 2020. Erin Krupka. "Renegotiation Behavior and Promise-keeping Norms." Link to video
August 13, 2020. Martin Dufwenberg. "Peer Evaluation Tournaments."
August 6, 2020. Lise Vesterlund. "Negotiation Ban: The Effect of Negotiation on Wage Dispersion."
July 30, 2020. Ben Greiner. "The Effect of a 'None of the Above' Ballot Paper Option on Voting Behavior and Election Outcomes."
July 23, 2020. Arno Riedl. "The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply." Link to video
July 16, 2020. Colin Camerer. "Visual Salience in Experimental Games and Stock Investment." Link to video
July 9, 2020. Guillaume Frechette. "Beliefs in Repeated Games."
July 2, 2020. Marie Claire Villeval. "The Way People Lie in Markets."
June 25, 2020. Charlie Sprenger. "Heterogeneity of Gain-Loss Attitudes and Expectations-Based Reference Points." (Email for video link.)
June 18, 2020. David Huffman. "Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers."
June 11, 2020. Tim Cason. "An Experimental Investigation of Price Dispersion and Cycles."
June 4, 2020. Marina Agranov. "Social Learning in Groups: an Experimental Study."