Workshops and conferences

BEE Annual Workshop on Behavioural
and Experimental Economics

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2023

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

Annual BEE workshop 2016

May 18

13:30-14:00 Coffee – Room F4

14:00-14:15 Introduction – Room F4

14:15-16:05 Session 1 – Room F4

Andreas Lange "Perspective taking and public goods provision in multiple group membership settings -- Evidence from the lab and the field" (Full paper – 30 min)

Verena Kurz “Coordination and endogenous responsibility” (co-author: Amrish Patel) (Research design – 20 min)

Lisa Björk “Cooperation under Risk and Ambiguity” (co-authors: Martin Kocher, Peter Martinsson and Nam Pham-Khanh) (Full paper – 30 min)

Andrea Martinangeli “Coordinating power of transfers” (co-authors Peter Martinsson and Amrish Patel) (Full paper – 30 min)

16:05-16:25 Coffee – Room F4

16:25-18:05 Session 2 – Room F4

Kinga Posadzy “Tracing Intuition and Deliberation in Risky Decision Making for Oneself and Others" (co-author: Jan Hausfeld) (Research design – 20 min)

Åsa Löfgren “Prices vs Standards and Firm Behavior - Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Policy Experiment” (co-authors: Magnus Hennlock, Åsa Löfgren, Conny Wollbrant) (Full paper – 30 min)

Alpaslan Akay “I Cannot Sleep Positional Concerns and Sleeping Behavior” (co-authors: Peter Martinsson and Hilda Ralsmark) (Full paper – 30 min)

Oana Borcan “Information and vote-buying” (Research design - 20 min)

18:45- Dinner – Ottomania (Aschebergsgatan 23)

May 19

9:00-9:30 Coffee – Room C25

9:30-11:00 Session 3 – Room C25

Verena Kurz “Is it possible to nudge consumers into more climate-friendly diets? An experiment with university canteens” (Full paper – 30 min)

Christina Gravert “The Hidden Costs of Nudging “ (Full paper – 30 min)

Martin Kocher "I lie? We lie! Why? Experimental evidence on dishonesty in groups"
(co-authors: Simeon Schudy and Lisa Spantig) (Full paper – 30 min)

11:00-11:20 Coffee – Room C25

11:20-12:40 Session 4 – Room C25

Martin Dufwenberg: “King of the Hill” (co-author: Matt Van Essen) (Full paper – 30 min)

Andrea Martinangeli ““Leadership, legitimacy and exploitation of group conflicts” (Research design – 20 min)

Joe Vecci “Social Identity and Role Models” (co-author: Tomas Zelinsky) (Full paper – 30 min)

13:00 - Lunch – Sjöbaren (Haga Nygata 25)

Conferences

12th Nordic Conference on Behavioural and Experimental Economics 2017

The 12th Nordic Conference on Behavioural and Experimental Economics was hosted by the Department of Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. The conference took place between the 6th of October and the 7th of October 2017. The conference was open for submissions within any sub-field of behavioural and experimental economics and attracted researchers from both the Nordic and other countries.

PROGRAMME

OCTOBER 6
_{Keynote speaker}
Bertil Tungodden – "Fairness and Redistribution: Experimental Evidence"

^{Parallel sessions 1}
Institutions and welfare

Jana Friedrichsen - Welfare Stigma in the Lab: Evidence of Social Signaling
Fredrik Carlsson - Trust in institutions: an experimental approach
Peter Matthews - Trust in Government and Redistributive Preferences: An Experimental Approach
Stein Holden - Group Trust in Youth Business Groups: Influenced by Risk Tolerance and Expected Trustworthiness

Public Goods 1

Corina Haita-Falah - Sunk Contributions and Beliefs in a Dynamic Threshold Public Good Game
Xiaojun Yang - Institutional choices and contributions in public goods game:Evidence from a laboratory experiment in rural China
Marion Dupoux - Beyond perfect substitutability in public good games: heterogenous structures of preferences
Matteo Ploner - When the State Doesn't Play Dice: An Experimental Analysis of Cunning Fiscal Policies and Tax Compliance

Development and Norms

Hanna Fromell - Sharing Norms and Saving Behaviour
Lisa Spantig - The Endowment Effect and Savings Decisions of the Poor
Daniele Nosenzo Norm fragility in the presence of image-motivated agents: the role of norm legitimacy
Stefan Grimm - Blaming the Refugees – Experimental Evidence on Responsibility Attribution

^{Parallel sessions 2}
Risk

Annika Lindskog - Risk-taking and peers
Ulrich Schmidt - It's all about gains: risk preference and problem gambling
Manja Gärtner - Intuitive decision style as a determinant of risk preferences
Kjell Arne Brekke - Does competence reduce ambiguity aversion?

Reference group and positional concerns

Lukas Kiessling - Self-selected Peers and Their Effects on Individual Performance
Pooja Balasubramanian - Wage Inequality and the Reference Group Effect
Alpaslan Akay - I Cannot Sleep! Relative Concerns and Sleeping Behavior
Lena Detlefsen - Sibling Composition, Preferences and Adolescents' Behavior

Bargaining and Labour

Leif Helland - Obstinate Parties and Non-binding Outside Options in the Lab
Levent Neyse - Income Inequality and Risk Taking: The Impact of Social Information
Ahrash Dianat Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action in the Lab
Marcela Ibanez - Formal insurance, risk sharing, and the dynamics of other-regarding preferences

^{Parallel sessions 3}
Welfare

Leticia Micheli - Inequality of Opportunity and Redistributive Concerns
Dirk Engelmann - Preferences over taxation of high income individuals: Evidence from online and laboratory experiments
Joe Vecci - Leader Identity and Coordination Failure: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field
Olof Johansson-Stenman - Inequality Aversion and Marginal Income Taxation

Gender and Psychology

Gökhan Buturak - Gender Stereotypes in Media and Women's Willingness to Compete
Lubomir Cingl - Individual Speculative Behavior under Acute Stress
Eva Ranehill - Hormonal contraceptives and economics preferences
Wolfgang Habla - How email reminders affect exercising behaviour

Health

Verena Kurz - Nudging à la carte – A field experiment on food choice
Massimo Finocchiaro Castro - Medical Malpractice Liability and Physicians’ Behaviour:Experimental Evidence
Sibilla Di Guida - Taking Care of High-Need Patients in Capitation-Based Payment Schemes - An experimental investigation into the importance of market conditions
Claes Ek - Spillovers from Food-Waste Collection in Swedish Municipalities

^{Parallel sessions 4}
Fairness

Michalis Drouvelis - Motives for Point-of-Exchange Donations
David Hugh-Jones - Where do fairness preferences come from? An experiment on norm transmission in an adolescent social network
Christiane Schwieren - Fairness, Justice, and Partner Preference in Borderline Personality Disorder
Stefan Trautmann - Implementing Fair Procedures?

Teams and group size

Karine Nyborg - The Good, the Bad, and the Conditional: Sorting and Dynamics in a Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation
Eline van Der Heijden - Group contracts for agri-environmental management
Pol Campos-Mercade - Helping Behavior and Group Size
Topi Miettinen - Exploration in Teams and the Encouragement Effect:Theory and Experimental Evidence

Voting and Bargaining

Katri Sieberg - Sequential Voting and Strategy – An Experimental Test
Adrian Hillenbrand - Strategic Rational Inattention - Strategic Rational Inattention: An Experiment on Product Search with Hidden Costs
Sonja Zitzelsberger - Voting on the Threat of Exclusion in a Public Goods Experiment
Thomas Markussen - Governing Collective Action in the Face of Observational Error

OCTOBER 7
_{Keynote speaker}
Anna Dreber – "Can We Trust Scientific Results? Replications, Reproducibility, and Prediction Markets"

^{Parallel sessions 5}
Environment

Angela Doku - Coping with Weather Shocks: Rational and "Irrational" Decision-Making in Protectionist Behaviour
Francesca Pancotto - The evolution of cooperation in the aftermath of natural disasters
Federico Cammelli - How good norms lead to bad coordination: a framed field experiment on fire management in the Brazilian Amazon
Shivani Wadehra - Eliciting households’ cooperation for efficient waste management: Field evidence from Delhi

Framing and Voting

Marco Kleine - Creativity and framed incentives: experimental evidence
Martin Vollmann - Measuring the Willingness to Pay (not) to get Verbal Feedback in Allocation Decisions
Christina Gravert - It’s Just Money: Do Experimental Subjects Arbitrage Intertemporal Monetary Rewards?
Zihan Nie - Water scarcity and cooperation: evidence from rural China

Markets

Nina Serdarevic - It Pays to be Nice: The Benefits of Cooperating in the Market
Gerdis Marquardt - Contract enforcement as a reference point for feelings of entitlement
Antonio Filippin - An experimental test of prediction markets
Thomas Alexander Stephens - Money Illusion and Individual Investment in Stocks

^{Parallel sessions 6}
Public goods 2

Matteo Migheli - Competition, Information and Cooperation
Huanren Zhang - Egalitarianism and turn taking in repeated coordination games
Florian Diekert - Social preferences under strategic and natural uncertainty
Gianluca Grimalda - Sanctions and imitation of virtuous behavior improve international cooperation

Labour and competition

Andreas Friedl - "Gift Exchange" in a Natural Work Environment; Dissociating types and actions
Aidas Masiliunas - Payoff risk and foregone payoff information in contests
Petra Nieken - Motivation and incentives in an online labor market
Jose Maria Ortiz Gomez - Probabilistic Reward Schemes: Experimental Evidence

Gender

Ananta Neelim - Self-promotion and gender inequality: aiding women break the shackles of modesty
Maria Loureiro - Risk Aversion, Self-confidence and Altruism: explaining Gender Differences in Ultimatum
Katharina Lima De Miranda - Can Gender Quotas Prevent Excessive Risk Taking? The Effect of Gender Composition on Group Decisions under Risk
Paolo Crosetto - Safe options induce gender differences in risk attitudes