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What is the behavioral in behavioral economics?
Trento (Italy), 5-6 June 2008

 
         
 

 

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Workshop on

"What is the behavioral in behavioral economics"
Trento (Italy), 5-6 June 2008

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Thursday June 5, 2008

8.30 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 – 9.10 Workshop Welcome and Opening. Greetings from the Scientific Committee
9.10 – 10.10 Keynote lecture:
(Un)Bounded Rationality and Experimental Evidence - A Unifying Scenario -
Werner Güth
10.10 – 10.30 Discussion
10.30 – 10.50 Coffee break
  Session 1 – Chairman: Guido Ortona
10.50 – 11.25 Paradigmatic experiments: the dictator’s game
Francesco Guala & Luigi Mittone
11.25 – 12.00 Some Requirements of a Theory of Behavior
Marco Monti and Shabnam Mousavi
12.00 – 12.35 Anomalies in Economics and Finance: an essay on the behaviouralists
Christopher Gilbert
12.35 – 14.00 Lunch
  Session 2 – Chairman: Anthony Ziegelmeyer
14.00 – 14.35 The elicitation of time preferences
Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti, & Luigi Mittone
14.35 – 15.10 A note on methodological issues in experimental literature on intertemporal choice
Oxana Tokarchuk & Roberto Gabriele
15.10 – 15.45 Some differences in revealed behaviour under different inquiry methods
Guido Ortona, Stefania Ottone, Ferruccio Ponzano, & Francesco Scacciati
15.45 – 16.05 Coffee break
  Session 3 – Chairman: Christoph Vanberg
16.05 – 16.40 Learning fairness equilibria
Luciano Andreozzi
16.40 – 17.15 Is observed other-regarding behavior always genuine?
Astrid Matthey & Tobias Regner
17.15 – 17.50 Promoting Justice by Treating People Unequally: An Experimental Analysis
Alice Becker & Luis Miller
20.00 Social Dinner at “Antico Pozzo”

Friday June 6, 2008

  Session 4 – Chairman: Matteo Ploner
9.00 – 9.35 Rules vs. rationality and the boundary between behavioural and cognitive economics
Marco Novarese
9.35 – 10.10 Behavioural Economics has Two ‘Souls’: Do They Both Depart from Economic Rationality?
Luca Zarri
10.10 – 10.45 The role of deliberative and non-deliberative processes in human behavior
Christoph Vanberg
10.45 – 11.05 Coffee break
11.05 – 11.40 What is the relationship between neoclassical and behavioral theory?
Erik Angner & George Loewenstein
11.40 – 12.45 Roundtable
Panel: Morris Altman, Francesco Guala, Werner Güth, & Jonathan W. Leland
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
  Session 5 – Chairman: Luigi Mittone
14.00 – 14.35 The Hunt for a Description Theory of Choice Under Uncertainty – a view from the road not taken
Jonathan W. Leland
14.35 – 15.10 Uncertainty about Future Tastes: An Experimental Measurement of the Subjective Value of Flexibility
Eric Danan & Anthony Ziegelmeyer
15.10 – 15.45 An Experimental Investigation of Alternatives to Expected Utility Using Pricing Data
Andrea Morone & Ulrich Schmidt
15.45 – 16.05 Coffee break
  Session 6 – Chairman: Luca Zarri
16.05 – 16.40 The Impact of (In)Equality of Opportunities on Wealth Distribution:Evidence from Ultimatum Games
Gianluca Grimalda, Anirban Kar and Eugenio Proto
16.40 – 17.15 Ruling out Escalation in a One-Dollar Auction: the Role of Expectations and “Bidding Fever”
Matteo Migheli