Experimental Economics Seminars

Throughout the years, ExCEN offers many Experimental Economics Seminars to promote research, teaching, and policy applications involving controlled experiments with human decision makers. Please visit our Experimental Economics Seminars page for more information.

Academic Year 2021 – 2022

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2020 – 2021

Sep

24

Peter Cramton (University of Cologne)
Title: TBA

Academic Year 2020 – 2021

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2020 – 2021

Oct

9

Charles Noussair (University of Arizona)
Do People Maximize Quantiles?

Oct

30

Yan Chen, University of Michigan
Putting Teams into the Gig Economy: A Field Experiment at a Ride-sharing Platform

Mar

5

Daniel Friedman, University of California, Santa Cruz
On the empirical relevance of correlated equilibrium

Apr

16

Björn Bartling, University of Zurich
Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the U.S.

Academic Year 2019 – 2020

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2019 – 2020

Sep

13

Danila Serra (Southern Methodist University)
“Gender differences in top leadership roles: Does worker backlash matter?”

Oct

18

Elena Pikulina (University of British Columbia)
“Preferences for Power”

Academic Year 2018 - 2019

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2018 – 2019

Sep

21

Dr. Erkut Ozbay (University of Maryland)
“Behavioral Effects of Student Loan Repayment Plan Options on Borrowers’ Career Decisions: Theory and Experimental Evidence”

Nov

30

Dr. Daniel Kreisman (Georgia State University)
“Designed to Fail: Effects of the Default Option and Information Complexity on Student Loan Repayment”

Mar

1

Dr. Giorgio Coricelli (University of Southern California)
“Strategizing and attention in games”

Apr

12

Lionel Page (University of Technology Sydney)
“Strategically Delusional”

Academic Year 2017 - 2018

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2017 – 2018

Oct

27

Dr. David J. Cooper (Florida State University)
“Consistent Depth of Reasoning in Level-k Models”

Nov

10

Dr. Andrew Kloosterman (University of Virginia)
“A simple experimental test of the Coase conjecture: fairness in dynamic bargaining.”

Mar

1

Dr. Jeffrey Butler (UC Merced)
“The Causal Effect of Cultural Identity on Cooperation”

Apr

20

Dr. John Ledyard (CalTech)
“Learning to Alternate”

Academic Year 2016 - 2017

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2016 – 2017

Oct

14

Neil Ning Yu , Emory University
“Affordable Care Encourages Healthy Living: Theory and Evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme”

Nov

4

Laura Razzolini, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Best-of-five Contest: An Experiment on Gender Differences”

Jan

13

Martin Dufwenberg, University of Arizona
“Frustration and Anger in Games”

Apr

7

Frans van Winden, University of Amsterdam
“On the Development of Cooperative and Antagonistic Relationships: The Affective Tie mechanism”

Academic Year 2015 - 2016

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2015 – 2016

Nov

13

Ronald Oaxaca, Emeritus Professor at the University of Arizona
“Gender Wage Gaps and Risky vs. Secure Employment: An Experimental Analysis”

Feb

19

Daniel Friedman, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Emergence of Networks and Market Institutions in a Large Virtual Economy”

Mar

25

Ryan Oprea, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Do Wealth Dynamics Eliminate Bad Beliefs? A Test of the Market Selection Hypothesis.”

Academic Year 2014 - 2015

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2014 – 2015

Sep

12

Alexander L. Brown, Texas A&M University
“Exploding Offers with Experimental Consumer Goods”

Nov

14

Anya Savikhin Samek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Field Experiments with Kids: Evidence from CHECC”

Jan

16

Dan Burghart, University of Zürich
“A Risky Perspective on Uncertainty: Using Lower Envelope Lotteries To Examine Ambiguity Attitudes”

Feb

13

Tanya Rosenblat, University of Michigan
“Managing Self-Confidence”

Academic Year 2013 - 2014

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2013 – 20014

Sep

6

Laura Razzolini,Virginia Commonwealth University
“Taking, Giving, and Impure Altruism in Dictator Games”

Oct

18

Cary A. Deck, University of Arkansas
“Alliance Formation with an Opportunistic Challenger: Theory and Experiments”

Mar

7

Yoram Halevy, University of British Columbia
“No Two Experiments are Identical”

Mar

28

Judd Kessler, University of Pennsylvania
“Experimental Investigations of Deceased Organ Donation”

Academic Year 2012 - 2013

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2012 – 2013

Aug

24

Ronald Harstad, University of Missouri
“Behavioral Efficiency: Definition, Methodology, Demonstrations”

Sep

19

John Hey, University of York
“Assessing Multiple Prior Models of Behaviour under Ambiguity”

Oct

12

Matthew Harding, Stanford University
“Goal Setting and Energy Efficiency”

Nov

5

Arthur Schram, University of Amsterdam
“Stars Need Benefits: An Experiment on Network Formation”

Jan

18

James C. Cox, Georgia State University
“Provision versus Appropriation in Symmetric and Asymmetric Social Dilemmas”

Mar

5

Tobias F. Rötheli, University of Erfurt
“Pattern-Based Expectations in Macroeconomics”

Academic Year 2011 - 2012

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2011 – 20012

Sep

21

Uzi Segal, Boston College
“On the Likelihood of Cyclic Comparisons”

Oct

28

David J. Cooper, Florida State University
“The Gift of Advice: Communication in a Bilateral Gift Exchange Game”

Nov

15

Zhen Lei, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
“Can Official Rank Standard Affect Individuals’ Behavior in China? – A Framing Effect Investigation”

Apr

19

Marco Castillo, George Mason University
“Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination”

Academic Year 2010 - 2011

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2010 – 20011

Oct

22

John Duffy, University of Pittsburgh
“Equilibrium Selection in Static and Dynamic Entry Games”

Oct

29

Peter P. Wakker, Erasmus University
“The Impact of Experiments on the Economic Thinking about Risk Aversion and Preferences”

Feb

18

Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University
“Share Equilibrium in Local Public Good Economies”

Apr

1

Arno Riedl, Maastrict University
“Efficient coordination in weakest-link games”

Academic Year 2009 - 2010

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2009 – 20010

Sep

28

Angelino C. G. Viceisza,International Food Policy Research Institute
“An experiment on the impact of weather shocks and insurance on risky investment”

Oct

3

Elisabet Rutström, University of Central Florida
“Can virtual reality make experiments more policy relevant?”

Oct

9

Daniel Houser, George Mason University
“Competition for Trophies Triggers Male Generosity”

Nov

9

Tibor Neugebauer, University of Luxembourg
“Moral Impossibility in the Petersburg Paradox: A Literature Survey and Experimental Evidence”

Jan

12

Jason Shachat, Xiamen University
“Procuring Commodities: Request for Quote or Reverse Auctions?”

Feb

12

Bart J. Wilson, Chapman University
“An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture”

Mar

19

Justin Esarey, Emory University
“A Formal Test of Substantive Significance”

Academic Year 2008 - 2009

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2008 – 2009

Sep

5

“James C. Cox, Georgia State University
“Is There a Plausible Theory for Decision Under Risk”

Nov

7

Daniel Friedman, University of California at Santa Cruz
“Humans, Robots and Market Crashes: A Laboratory Study”

Jan

9

John Wooders, University of Arizona
“Does Experience Teach? Professionals and Minimax Play in the Lab”

Feb

2

Erin L. Krupka, IZA – Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany
“Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games:Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?”

Feb

4

Douglas Norton, Florida State University
“Endogenous Production Technology in a Public Goods Enterprise”

Feb

11

Ulrich Schmidt, University of Kiel
“Errors, Splitting Effect, and Violations of Independence”

Feb

18

David M. Bruner, Appalachian State University
“Be My Guinea Pig: Information Spillovers in a One-Armed Bandit Game”

Mar

20

Yan Chen, University of Michigan
“Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens”

Apr

30

Jan Tuinstra, University of Amsterdam
“The Overcharge as a Measure for Antitrust Damages”

Academic Year 2007 - 2008

Experimental Economics Seminars Academic Year 2007 – 2008

Sep

7

Kurt E. Schnier, University of Rhode Island
“Common Property, Information and Cooperation: Commercial Fishing in the Bering Sea”

Sep

14

Monica Capra, Emory University
“Neurobiological Probability Weighting over Losses”

Mar

21

Tim Salmon, Florida State University
“Market Power and Risk Sharing Contracts”

Apr

7

Bodo Vogt, University of Magdeberg
“Indirect Partner Interaction in Peer-to-Peer Networks: Stimulating Cooperation by Means of Structure

Apr

10

Catherine Eckel, University of Texas at Dallas
“Encouraging Giving: Subsidies in the Field”

Apr

18

Jean-Louis Rulliere, Université Lumière Lyon 2
“Monitoring Optimistic Agents”