2020
Unfortunately, due to the Corona virus pandemic, all the seminars during the 2020 summer semester have been cancelled.
January 23, 2020
Egon Tripodi | European University Institute
Self-persuasion: Evidence from field experiments at two international debating competitions
January 16, 2020
Simone Haeckl | WU Vienna
Social signaling in ex-ante self-assessments – Gender differences and behavioral consequence
Matias Nunez | CREST
A solution to the two-person implementation problem
January 9, 2020
Alistair Wilson | University of Pittsburgh
Lying aversion: on the margin, and in the limit
2019
December 12, 2019
Wolfgang Luhan | University of Portsmouth
What you want and what I get: Responsibility, accountability, and the seduction of limited liability on financial markets
Marco Faravelli | University of Queensland
Conflict in the pool
December 5, 2019
Katharina Momsen | University of Innsbruck
Information avoidance, selective exposure, and fake(?) news – A green market experiment
Andreas Lange | University of Hamburg
Private contributions and the regional scope of charities: How donation experiments can inform public policy
November 28, 2019
Workshop “Correlation neglect and belief formation” | Technische Universität Berlin
Programme
November 21, 2019
David Schindler | Tilburg University
Impulse purchases, gun ownership and homicides: Evidence from a firearm demand shock
Ulrich Schmidt | IfW Kiel
Hyperopic loss aversion
November 14, 2019
Ala Avoyan | Indiana University
A road to efficiency through communication and commitment
Paul Heidhues | DĂĽsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Overconfidence and prejudice
November 7, 2019
Despoina Alempaki | Warwick Business School
Evasive communication
October 31, 2019
Bertil Tungodden | Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Fairness across the world: Preferences and beliefs
Tim Cason | Purdue University
Better coordination, better crowdfunding
October 17, 2019
Tom Chang | University of Southern California
Reverse animal spirits
September 30, 2019
BBE Workshop | Universität Potsdam
Programme
June 27, 2019
Felix Holzmeister | University of Innsbruck
Delegated decision making in finance
June 20, 2019
Eugen Dimant | University of Pennsylvania
When a nudge backfires: Using observation with social and economic incentives to promote pro-social behavior
Martin Sefton | University of Nottingham
Communication with partially verifiable information: An experiment
June 6, 2019
Tobias Gesche | ETH Zurich | Reference price shifts and customer antagonism: Evidence from reviews for online auctions
May 23, 2019
Zahra Murad | University of Portsmouth | Fighting alone versus fighting for a team: An experiment on multiple pairwise contests
May 16, 2019
Paul Smeets | Maastricht University | How do the rich think about redistribution?
Arno Riedl | Maastricht University | How unfair chances affect labor supply
May 9, 2019
David Reinstein | University of Exeter | Substitution among charitable contributions: Converging lab and field evidence
Johanna Mollerstrom | George Mason University, Arlington | Income mobility, luck/effort beliefs, and the demand for redistribution: Perceptions and reality
May 2, 2019
Soo Hong Chew | National University of Singapore | Motivated false memory
Jörg Oechssler | University of Heidelberg | The conditional contribution mechanism for repeated public goods – the general case
April 25, 2019
Manu Munoz Herrera | New York University Abu Dhabi | Keycards and straitjackets: The role of social regulations and social integration in escaping inefficient group processes
Yves Le Yaouanq | University of Munich | Learning about one’s self
March 22, 2019
BBE Workshop | Technische Universität Berlin
January 10, 2019
Lea Cassar | University of Cologne | Intentions for doing good matter for doing well: The negative effects of prosocial incentives
2018
December 13, 2018
Daniele Nosenzo | Luxembourg Institute for Socio-Economic Research and University of Nottingham| Law and norms: Experimental evidence
Inácio Bó, WZB | The iterative deferred acceptance mechanism
December 06, 2018
Melis Kartal | University of Vienna | A new approach to the analysis of cooperation under the shadow of the future: Theory and experimental evidence
November 29, 2018
Marcus Giamattei | University of Passau | Who inflates the bubble? – Forecasters and traders in experimental asset markets
November 22, 2018
Holger Herz | University of Fribourg | Linguistics and time preferences: Are intertemporal trade-offs shaped by language?
Johanna Jauernig | Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) | Spite and preemptive retaliation after tournaments
November 15, 2018
Thomas Graeber | Harvard University | Inattentive inference
November 08, 2018
Joel Sobel | University of California, San Diego | Lying and deception in games
Tommy Andersson | University of Lund | Dynamic refugee matching
October 18, 2018
Anna Dreber | Stockholm School of Economics | Replications and prediction markets
October 11, 2018
Joseph Vecci, University of Gothenburg | Stability of preferences and personality: New evidence from developing and developed countries
September 11, 2018
BBE Workshop | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Programme
July 19, 2018
Johannes MĂĽller-Trede | IESE Business School Barcelona | Principled defection: Untapped social motivation as an impediment to cooperation
Aniko Ă–ry | Yale School of Management | Aiming for the goal: Contribution dynamics of crowdfunding
June 21, 2018
Ryan Oprea | University of California, Santa Barbara | Biases over biased information structures
June 14, 2018
Piotr Evdokimov | Instituto TecnolĂłgico AutĂłnomo de MĂ©xico | Communication and behavior in organizations: An experiment
Thomas Stratmann | George Mason University | Moral decision costs when vote weight care unequal
May 31, 2018
Alex Teytelboym | University of Oxford | Refugee resettlement
Rigissa Megalokonomou | University of Queensland | Feedback, learning and performance: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial
May 24, 2018
Jura Liaukonyte | Cornell University | Strategic obfuscation and price fairness
May 17, 2018
Jose Apesteguia | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Separating predicted randomness from noise
Erin Krupka | University of Michigan | Rhetoric matters: A social norms explanation for the anomaly of framing
May 03, 2018
Astrid Hopfensitz | Toulouse School of Economics | What if women earned more than their spouses? An experimental investigation of work-division in couples
April 26, 2018
William Ferguson | Grinnell College | The political economy of establishing credible agreements: Political settlements, incentives, and the configuration of deals
Peter Werner | Maastricht University | CO2 trading – design and behavior
March 12, 2018
BBE Workshop | Technische Universität Berlin
Programme
February 08, 2018
Diemo Urbig | University of Wuppertal | Entrepreneurship and competition: Do competitive intensity and individual competitiveness matter for selection into entrepreneurship
February 01, 2018
Loukas Balafoutas | University of Innsbruck | Rehabilitation and social behavior: Experiments in prison
Stéphane Luchini | CNRS and Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) | Testimony under oath – an experimental test
January 25, 2018
Theo Offerman | University of Amsterdam | A market for honesty: Fighting corruption in education
Jeroen van de Ven | University of Amsterdam | The power and limits of sequential communication in coordination games
January 18, 2018
Urs Fischbacher | University of Konstanz | Incentives for conformity and disconformity
January 11, 2018
Siri Isaksson | Stockholm School of Economics | It takes two: Gender differences in group work
2017
December 14, 2017
Marta Serra Garcia | University of California, San Diego | Time-inconsistent charitable giving
Maria Bigoni | University of Bologna | Money is more than memory
December 07, 2017
Lawrence Choo | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Whistleblowing and diffusion of responsibility. An experiment
Giorgio Coricelli | University of Southern California | Dynamic regret aversion
November 30, 2017
Julie Chytilová | CERGE – Economics Institute, Prague | Acting in groups elevates antisocial behavior: Evidence from large-scale experiments in Europe and Africa
Jonathan de Quidt | IIES Stockholm | Implicit preferences inferred from choice
November 23, 2017
Sebastian Fehrler | University of Konstanz | Negotiating cooperation under uncertainty: Communication in noisy, indefinitely repeated interactions
Heather Sarsons | Harvard University | Interpreting signals: Evidence from medical referrals
November 16, 2017
Bob Hammond | North Carolina State University | Sequential school choice: Theory and evidence from the field and lab
Emanuel Vespa | University of California, Santa Barbara | Probabilistic states versus multiple certainties: The obstacle of risk in contingent reasoning
November 09, 2017
Karina Held | University of Magdeburg | Inducing stress in an economist’s lab: Anti-social behavior under acute stress
Steve Leider | University of Michigan | Designing incentives for startup teams: Form and timing of equity contracting
October 26, 2017
Daniel Chen | Toulouse School of Economics | Ideas have consequences: The impact of law and economics on american justice
Simon Weidenholzer | University of Essex | Copy trading
October 19, 2017
Peter Bednarik | University of Vienna | Competition promotes helping behavior via indirect reciprocity
October 13, 2017
BBE Workshop | WZB
Programme
July 19, 2017
Iwan Barankay | University of Pennsylvania | “Process vs retrieval practice incentives to induce lasting behavior modification: Evidence from a toothbrushing RCT”
Daniel Martin | Northwestern University | Complex disclosure
July 12, 2017
Sander Onderstal | University of Amsterdam | Collusion and corporate social responsibility: A laboratory experiment
Don Moore | University of California, Berkeley | The epistemology of confidence: On the difficulty of being both wrong and knowing it
July 5, 2017
Sevgi Yuksel | University of California, Santa Barbara | Seeking and interpreting signals: An experiment
Ryan Oprea | University of California, Santa Barbara | General equilibrium experiments using revealed rather than induced preferences
June 28, 2017
Fabian Winter | MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn | “Which real effort task should I choose? An experimental comparison of tasks and their behavioral effects”
June 21, 2017
Itai Ashlagi | Stanford University | Communication requirements and informative signaling in matching markets
Christhopher Roth | University of Oxford | Learning from the Mariels: Are immigrants really taking our jobs?
Philipp Strack | University of California, Berkeley | Turning up the heat: The demoralizing effect of competition in contests
June 14, 2017
Sigrid Suetens | University of Tilburg | Return on trust is lower for immigrants
June 7, 2017
Vera te Velde | University of Queensland | On the power of surprising versus anticipated gifts
Leandro Carvalho | University of Southern California | Complexity and sophistication
May 24, 2017
Boon Han Koh | University of Melbourne | Attribution biases in leadership: Is it effort or luck?
Andrew Schotter | New York University | Attention in games
May 17, 2017
Ragan Petrie | Texas A&M University | “Workplace competition and labor supply: A field experiment”
Ted Bergstrom | University of California, Santa Barbara | When was Coase right?
May 10, 2017
Silvia Saccardo | Carnegie Mellon University | Moral norms, image concerns and motivated reasoning
Joshua Miller | Bocconi University | Surprised by the gambler’s and hot hand fallacies? A truth in the law of small numbers
April 25, 2017
Dan Friedman | University of California, Santa Cruz | Varieties of risk elicitation
March 16, 2017
BBE Workshop | DIW
Programme
February 22, 2017
Sandro Ambuehl | University of Toronto Scarborough | An offer you can’t refuse? Incentives change what we believe
February 15, 2017
Adriaan Soetevent | University of Groningen | (Non-)Insurance markets, loss size manipulation and competition: Experimental evidence
February 8, 2017
Thomas Buser | University of Amsterdam | Do women give up competing more easily? Evidence from the lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad
February 1, 2017
Natalia Montinari | University of Lund | Getting to the top: Gender quotas in multistage tournaments
January 25, 2017
Jona Linde | University of Maastricht | Anchoring in bargaining
January 18, 2017
Tobias Regner | University of Jena | Moral wiggle room and reciprocity
2016
September 5, 2016
BBE Workshop | Technische Universität Berlin
Programme
March 3, 2016
BBE Workshop | WZB
