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"
Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here
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)
Re-watch the seminar on YouTube here
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)