Past Seminars

Spring 2022


  • May 17th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Catherine Eckel (Texas A&M University)

"The Democratic Peace: An Experimental Test of a Causal Relation and of Underlying Mechanisms" (with Jordi Brandts, Enrique Fatas and Shaun Hargreaves-Heap)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here.


  • May 3rd at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley)

"Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption" (with Woojin Kim and Elizabeth Linos)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here.


  • Tuesday April 19th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Paola Manzini (University of Bristol)

"Mixture Choice Data: Revealing Preferences and Cognition” (with Valentino Dardanoni, Marco Mariotti, Henrik Petri and Chris Tyson)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here.


  • Tuesday April 5th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Guillaume Frechette (New York University)

"Beliefs in Repeated Games" (with Masaki Aoyagi and Sevgi Yuksel)


  • Tuesday March 22nd at 9am LA | 12pm NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Chloe Tergiman (Penn State University)

"The Way People Lie in Markets: Detectable vs. Deniable Lies" (with Marie Claire Villeval)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here.


  • Tuesday March 8th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Daniel Reck (London School of Economics)

"The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence" (with Arthur Seibold)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here.


  • Tuesday February 22nd at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Natalie Lee (University of Amsterdam)

"Agenda Setting Power in Legislative Bargaining" (with Ravideep Sethi)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here.


  • Tuesday February 8th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Shengwu Li (Harvard University)

"A Theory of Ex Post Rationalization" (with Erik Eyster and Sarah Ridout)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here.


Fall 2021


  • Tuesday November 30th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Antonio Cabrales (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

"The Effect of Ambiguity in Strategic Environments: An Experiment" (with Pablo Brañas-Garza, Maria Paz Espinosa and Diego Jorrat)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here.


  • Tuesday November 16th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Ryan Oprea (UC Santa Barbara)

"Confidence, Self-Selection and Bias in the Aggregate" (with Benjamin Enke and Thomas Graeber)


  • Tuesday November 2nd at 9am LA | 12pm NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Moses Shayo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

"Follow the Crowd: But Who Follows, Who Counteracts, and What Crowd?" (with Inbal Dekel)


  • Tuesday October 19th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Isabel Treviño (UC San Diego)

"Uncovering Biases in Information Choice and its Use: Individual vs Strategic Decision-Making" (with Michal Szkup)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here.


  • Tuesday October 5th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv University & UCL)

"Cheating with Models" (with Kfir Eliaz and Yair Weiss)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here.


  • Tuesday September 21st at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Ingela Alger (Toulouse School of Economics)

"Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Strategic Interactions" (with Boris van Leeuwen)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


  • Tuesday September 7th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Marta Serra-Garcia (UC San Diego)

"Cognitive Flexibility or Moral Commitment? Evidence of Anticipated Belief Distortion" (with Silvia Saccardo)


Spring 2021


  • Tuesday May 25th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Andrew Caplin (New York University)

"Inattention and Inequity in School Matching" (with Stefan Bucher)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


  • Tuesday May 11th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Raymond Fisman (Boston University)

"Expected Discrimination and the Transparency Gap" (with Christine Exley, Judd Kessler, and Mattie Toma)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


  • Tuesday April 27th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Johanna Mollerstrom (George Mason University)

"Can Simple Advice Eliminate the Gender Gap in Willingness to Compete?" (with Dany Kessel and Roel van Veldhuizen)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


  • Tuesday April 13th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Drew Fudenberg (MIT)

"Predicting Average Cooperation in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma" (with Gustav Karreskog)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


  • Tuesday March 30th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Dorothea Kuebler (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

"Repugnant Transactions: The Role of Agency and Extreme Consequences" (with Hande Erkut)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


  • Tuesday March 16th at 9am LA | 12pm NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Jonathan de Quidt (Institute for International Economic Studies)

“Implicit Preferences Inferred from Choice” (with Tom Cunningham) [Slides]

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


  • Tuesday March 2nd at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Rosemarie Nagel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

“How to Harness against Zero Intelligence: Idiosyncratic Signals in Beauty Contest” (with Jess Benhabib, Christoph Buehren and John Duffy)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


Fall 2020


  • Tuesday December 8th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Botond Köszegi (Central European University)

“Procrastination Markets” (with Paul Heidhues and Takeshi Murooka)


  • Tuesday November 24th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Michael Woodford (Columbia University)

"Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts" (with Rava Azeredo da Silveira and Yeji Sung)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


  • Tuesday November 10th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Willemien Kets (University of Oxford)

"Organizational Design: Culture and Incentives"

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  • Tuesday October 27th at 9am LA | 12pm NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 8pm Abu Dhabi:

Yoram Halevy (University of Toronto)

"Identifying Rule-Based Rationality" (with Guy Mayraz)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


  • Tuesday October 13th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Sevgi Yuksel (UC Santa Barbara)

"Mental Models and Learning: The Case of Base-Rate Neglect" (with Ignacio Esponda and Emanuel Vespa)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


  • Tuesday September 29th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Friederike Mengel (University of Essex)

"History Matters: Match Length Realization and Cooperation in Indefinitely Repeated Games" (with Ludovica Orlandi and Simon Weidenholzer)

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  • Tuesday September 15th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Florian Zimmerman (University of Bonn)

"Associative Memory and Belief Formation" (with Benjamin Enke and Frederik Schwerter)

Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here


Spring 2020


  • Monday June 29th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh)

"Belief Elicitation: Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives" (with David Danz and Alistair J. Wilson)


  • Monday June 22nd at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University)

"Caution and Uncertainty About Your Utility: A New Perspective on Non-EU, Loss Aversion, and the Endowment Effect" (with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio and David Dillenberger)


  • Monday June 15th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Sigrid Suetens (University of Tilburg)

"Rational Cooperation and Reputational Effects" (with Maria Bigoni and Ernesto Reuben )


  • Monday June 8th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Kristof Madarasz (London School of Economics)

"Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion: Private Goods in Public Context" (with Alex Imas)


  • Monday June 1st at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Sandro Ambuehl (University of Zurich)

"What Motivates Paternalism? An Experimental Study" (with B. Douglas Bernheim and Axel Ockenfels)


  • Monday May 25th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Nagore Iriberri (University of the Basque Country)

"Naivete and Sophistication in Initial and Repeated Play in Games" (with Bernardo Garcia-Pola)


  • Monday May 18th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Nikos Nikiforakis (New York University at Abu Dhabi)

"Predicting Social Tipping and Norm Change in Controlled Experiments" (with James Andreoni and Simon Siegenthaler)


  • Monday May 11th at 8am LA | 11am NY | 4pm London | 5pm Brussels | 6pm Tel Aviv | 7pm Abu Dhabi:

Alessandra Casella (Columbia University)

"Mediating Conflict in the Lab" (with Evan Friedman and Manuel Perez) [Slides]


  • Monday May 4th at 7am LA | 10am NY | 3pm London | 4pm Brussels | 5pm Tel Aviv | 6pm Abu Dhabi:

Benjamin Enke (Harvard University)

"Cognitive Uncertainty" (with Thomas Graeber)