Program

A booklet with the abstracts of the speakers can be downloaded here:

Day 1: Thursday, 9 September

Zoomlink: https://uzh.zoom.us/j/65833320755?pwd=SEdTOUFOWGRJc3kwRDA1cEUvRXJJQT09

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Please also note that all time slots are indicated in Central European Summer Time (CEST).

2:50-3:00 Welcome

3:00-3:40 Roberto Fumagalli (Kings College London): Preferences versus Opportunities: What Conceptual Foundation for Normative Welfare Economics?

3:40-4:20 Måns Abrahamson (Erasmus University Rotterdam): On the Use of True Preferences in Behavioural Welfare Economics

4:20-4:30 Break

4:30-5:10 Nicholas Makins (London School of Economics): Preference and Commitment under Moral Uncertainty

5.10-5:50 Blake Francis (University of Maryland): What is a Constructed Preference?

5:50-6:00 Break

6:00-7:15 Keynote: Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania):
Intentions matter: punishment and compensation in trust games

Day 2: Friday, 10 September

Zoomlink:

https://uzh.zoom.us/j/61433438075?pwd=dnVrclFoV1lTT2hwTTBaNm1yUENJQT09

3:00-3:40 Jay Jian (National Tsing Hua University): The Constitutive Norms and Justification for Commitment

3:40-4:20 Laura Marcon (University of Granada): What Gives us a Reason to Change? Joint Commitments and Norm-guided Behaviors

4:20-4:30 Break

4:30-5:10 Michael Messerli & Kevin Reuter (University of Zurich): Hausman vs. Sen on Commitments: Can Commitments Lead to Counterpreferential Choices?

5:10-5:50 Andrija Soc (University of Belgrade): Three Paradoxes of Voting

5:50-6:00 Break

6:00-6:40 Tyler DesRoches (Arizona State University): A New Model of Consumer Well-Being

Day 3: Saturday, 11 September

Zoomlink:

https://uzh.zoom.us/j/69756439923?pwd=cXVSc1dYR0VmdU1lcC8rRDBXZ3Zvdz09

3:00-3:40 Annalisa Costella (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The challenge of self-expression for instrumental rationality

3:40-4:20 Guido Löhr (Eindhoven University of Technology): What are Commitments?

4:20-4:30 Break

4:30-5:10 Akshath Jitendranath (University of Amsterdam): The Formulation of Rational Choice

5:10-5:20 Break

5:20-6:35 Keynote: Daniel Hausman (Rutgers University): Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare (Again)

Please note that all time slots are indicated in Central European Summer Time (CEST).