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ROCK - Research on Organizations, Coordination & Knowledge
and
CEEL - Computable and Experimental Economics Laboratory

"Trento Winter School in Experimental
Economics & Finance"

17-20 december 2002
Dept. of Economics, Dept. of Management and Computer Science
University of Trento

Organizing Committee: Giovanna Devetag, Luigi Mittone

Object: the object of the school is to provide students with an introduction to experimental economics and finance. The first park of the school will deal with the fundamentals of experimental economics (history, methods) as well as a survey of some applications of experimental methods to specific fields of economics. The second part of the course will offer an introduction to financial markets, with particular attention to problems of information, expectations and pricing of financial assets.

Location: all classes will be held in Aula riunioni DISA, at the first floor of the Dept. of Management and Computer Science, Via Inama, 5. Wednesday classes may be held in the computer room at the first floor of the Dept. of Economics.

Instructors:
Alessandro Beber, University of Trento and S. Anna School of Advancved Studies, Pisa.
Nicolao Bonini, Cognitive Science Laboratory, University of Trento, Rovereto.
Giovanna Devetag, University of Trento.
Luigi Mittone, University of Trento (director of CEEL).
Roberto Tamborini, University of Trento.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
(subject to changes)

Tuesday morning (9.30-12.30)
Luigi Mittone, “Introduction to Experimental Economics: History, Methods, Purpose (part 1)”.

Tuesday afternoon (14.30-17.30)
Luigi Mittone, “Introduction to Experimental Economics: History, Methods, Purpose (part 2)”.

Wednesday morning (9.30-12.30)
Giovanna Devetag, “Some recent results in experimental economics”.

Wednesday afternoon
(14-17) participation in an experiment.
(17-18.30) Nicolao Bonini, “Individual Decision Making”.

Thursday morning (9.30-12.30)
Roberto Tamborini, “Information and financial markets: an introduction”.

Thursday afternoon: (14.30-17.30)
Alessandro Beber, “An Introduction to Asset Pricing Models”.

Friday morning: (9.30-12.30)
Alessandro Beber, “Option-implied state price density”.

For information regarding the program, contact Luigi Mittone (luigi.mittone@economia.unitn.it) or Giovanna Devetag (devetag@cs.unitn.it);
for information regarding accommodation and other organizational matters contact Dino Parise at dinoparise@libero.it

Department of Economics via Inama, 5 I-38100 Trento tel. +39 461 282201