Past events

September 7, 2026
BBE Workshop | ESMT 
Programme


June 25, 2026
Jason Somerville | University of California, Santa Barbara
The misallocation of high-value work
Pol Campos-Mercade | Lund University
Incentives, surrogates, and long-run vaccination


June 11, 2026
Kathleen Ngangoue | UCLA Anderson School of Management
Life’s big decisions in the age of AI
Ben Bushong | Michigan State University


June 4, 2026
Silvia Sonderegger | University of Nottingham
Divided we act: The role of social sanctions in a polarized world
Baiba Renerte | University of Zurich
The unintended effects of workplace ethics interventions


May 28, 2026
Marc Kaufmann | Central European University
A first welfare theorem with fully socially responsible agents and its limitations
Felix Kolle | University of Cologne
Gender, interventions, and autonomy


May 21, 2026
Evan Piermont | University of London
Modeling the modeler: A normative theory of experimental design
Marieke Pahlke | Corvinus University of Budapest
Knightian equilibria in activism games


May 7, 2026
Ingela Alger | Toulouse School of Economics
Norms and norm change - driven by social Kantian preferences
Kirsten Rohde | Erasmus School of Economics
Skipping your workout, again? Measuring and understanding time inconsistency in physical activity


April 30, 2026
Marta Serra-Garcia | University of California, San Diego
Evidence and Influence
Vanessa Valero | Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
On the Relative Deservingness of Capital and Labor


April 23, 2026    
Ignacio Esponda | UCSB Department of Economics

Forecast errors and forecast sufficiency under ambiguity


March 23, 2026
BBBE Workshop | Bergen


February 5, 2026
Zvika Neeman | Tel Aviv University

Adversarial sampling
Bertil Tungodden | NHH Norwegian School of Economics


January 29, 2026
Thomas Graeber | University of Zurich

Cognitive comparison effects
Stefania Bortolotti | University of Bologna
Demand for fact-checking and sharing information


January 22, 2026
Antonio Cabrales | University Carlos III Madrid

Social networks and behavioral change in prison
Charlotte Saucet | Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Discounted universalism


2025


November 27, 2025
Frederik Schwerter | Frankfurt School
“Us vs them”: Does conflict salience fuel extremism?
Boris Van der Leeuwen | Tilburg University
The supply of emotional labour


November 20, 2025
Paola Manzini | University of Bristol
Choice and opportunity costs
Matthew Ridley | University of Warwick
Not learning from others


November 13, 2025
Peter Schwardmann | Carnegie Mellon University
Social anxiety and evaluative interviews


October 30, 2025
Hannah Schildberg-Hoerisch | University of Dusseldorf (DICE)
The right timing matters: Sensitive periods in the formation of socio-emotional skills
Francesca Miserocchi | Tilburg University
Recall biases and gender gaps: Evidence from teachers’ educational decisions


October 23, 2025
Christina Rott | Vrije University Amsterdam
Strategic incompetence and gender stereotypes
Roel van Veldhuizen | Lund University
Gender differences in self-promotion and career advice


October 16, 2025
Fabio Galeotti | University of Lyon
Costly confessions
Gabriel Ziegler | University of Edinburgh
Binary classifiers as dilations


September 25, 2025
BBE Workshop | ESMT
Programme


July 10, 2025
Steffen Altmann | University of Würzburg
Wage expectations and job search
Katharina Bruett | Vrije University Amsterdam
Far from free: How social proximity affects paternalism


July 3, 2025
Thomas Buser | University of Amsterdam
Economic preferences, personality, and voting
Shani Cohen | Harvard University
What you can’t see: Contingent thinking failures in dynamic markets


June 26, 2025
Simone Haeckl | Stavanger Business School
Don’t let your fruits rot: An experimental investigation of leadership training in a grocery store
Paula Onuchic | London School of Economics
How do groups speak and how are they understood?


June 19, 2025
Sevgi Yuksel | New York University
How complexity shapes information demand


June 12, 2025
Jonathan Schulz | George Mason University
The medieval church, diverse networks, and innovation
Ashley Wong | Tilburg University
Female entrepreneurship and professional networks


June 5, 2025
Marina Schroeder | University of Hannover
Input versus output incentives in idea generation – An experimental analysis
Robert Dur | Erasmus University Rotterdam
Correcting beliefs about job opportunities and wages: A field experiment on education choices


May 22, 2025
Gonzalo Arrieta | University of Zurich
Procedural decision-making in the face of complexity
Jana Freundt | Lucerne University
Preferences for choice autonomy and identity


May 15, 2025
Yan Chen | University of Michigan
Social media and job market success: A field experiment on Twitter
Elias Tsakas | Maastricht University
A robust measure of complexity


April 24, 2025
David Frankel | Melbourne Business School Faculty
Equilibrium selection in participation games: A unifired framework & predicting participation
Moses Shayo | Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Paying not to know: news avoidance in times of war


April 17, 2025
David Levine | Royal Holloway University of London
Behavioral mechanism design as a benchmark for laboratory studies


April 2, 2025
Bergen-Berlin-Behavioral-Economics BBBE Workshop | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Programme


February 13, 2025
Dana Sisak | Erasmus University Rotterdam
Investigating the willingness to share data: “I am not giving it to that purpose!”
Yves Le Yaouanq | CREST
Intuition, image and rationalization: A model of belief formation and political polarization


February 6, 2025
Björn Bartling | UZH
Paternalism across the world
Giorgia Romagnoli | University of Amsterdam
Should individuals choose their own incentives? Evidence from a mindfulness meditation intervention


January 30, 2025
Holly Dykstra | University of Konstanz
The Buy-In Effect: when increasing initial effort motivates behavioral follow-through
David Walker-Jones | University of Surrey
Naive frequentists and redundant information


2024


December 12, 2024
Hannah Trachtman | Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Treating doctors: evidence from a field experiment in surgery
Duarte Gonçalves | University College London
Speed, accuracy, and complexity


December 5, 2024
Wieland Müller | University of Vienna
Properties of risky individual and group decisions and the (dis)aggregation of preferences
Lisa Spantig | RWTH Aachen University
Individual preferences for truth-telling


November 28, 2024
Alice Soldà | Ghent University
Strategic ignorance and perceived control
Johanna Mollerstrom | George Mason University
Fairness preferences over parental wealth transfer


November 21, 2024
Eva Ranehill | University of Gothenburg
The impact of PhD studies on mental health – A longitudinal population study
Tobias Werner | Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Algorithmic and human collusion


November 14, 2024
Luca Henkel | University of Chicago
The role of interpersonal uncertainty in prosocial behavior
Vasilisa Werner | University of Potsdam
Destructive communication


November 7, 2024
Sam Hirshman | Norwegian School of Economics
(Mis)perceptions of stability and learning
Rafael Jiménez-Durán | Bocconi University
When product markets become collective traps: The case of social media


October 31, 2024
Pamela Giustinelli | Bocconi University
The coherence side of rationality: theory and evidence from firm plans
Benedetta Lerva | World Bank
The monetary value of externalities: Experimental evidence from Ugandan farmers


October 24, 2024
Simeon Schudy | Ulm University
The (mis)perceived determinants of team success in non-routine tasks


October 17, 2024
Maria Cotofan | King’s College London
Does warm weather cool voters down? How temperature fluctuations impact voting and climate concerns
Peiran Jiao | Maastricht University
Motivated reasoning in the social domain


September 25, 2024
BBE Workshop | ESMT
Programme


July 4, 2024
Peter Andre | Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE
Mental models of the stock market
Andreas Grunewald | Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Are biases contagious? The influence of communication on motivated beliefs


June 27, 2024
Jon de Quidt | Queen Mary University of London
Implicit gender discrimination: Evidence from 41 countries


June 20, 2024
Ran Shorrer | Pennsylvania State University
Explaining the too-good-to-be-true puzzle in two-sided matching
Sonja Settele | Universität zu Köln
Mental models of high school success


June 13, 2024
Dietmar Fehr | Universität Heidelberg
Are risk preferences shaped by status concerns?


June 6, 2024
Anna Bindler | Universität zu Köln
Murphy’s law or luck of the Irish? Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th Century courts
Ran Spiegler | University College London
News media as suppliers of narratives (and information)


May 30, 2024
Christina Gravert | University of Copenhagen
From intent to inertia: Experimental evidence from the retail electricity market
John Duffy | University of California, Irvine
Trade, voting and ESG policies: Theory and evidence


May 23, 2024
Mateusz Stalinski | University of Warwick
Politics of food: Experimental evidence on trust in expert regulation and consumer responses
Luca Braghieri | Bocconi University
Against totalitarianism: The value of a history education in countering extremist ideology


May 16, 2024
Rossella Argenziano | University of Essex
Data governance with vulnerable individuals
Gilat Levy | London School of Economics
Research waves


May 2, 2024
Mattie Toma | University of Warwick
Numbers tell, words sell
Michael Thaler | University College London
The supply of motivated beliefs


April 25, 2024
Simon Gaechter | University of Nottingham
The complementarity of good institutions and voluntary cooperation: Experimental evidence from 43 societies
Florian Zimmermann | University of Bonn
Mental models in financial markets: How do finance experts reason about the pricing of risk?


April 18, 2024
Friederike Mengel | University of Essex
Social influence
Jeanne Hagenbach | Sciences Po Paris
Competition, cooperation, and motivated social perceptions


March 18, 2024
Bergen-Berlin-Behavioral-Economics BBBE Workshop | NHH Bergen


February 15, 2024
Ingar Haaland | Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Conducting qualitative interviews with AI
Valeria Burdea | LMU Munich
Narratives, actions and impact in Dishonesty


2023


Dezember 14, 2023
Larbi Alaoui | Pompeu Fabra University
Attitudes towards success and failure
Constantin Charles | London School of Economics
Causal narratives


Dezember 7, 2023
Lukas Bolte | Carnegie Mellon University
Emotional inattention
María Paz Espinosa | Universidad del Pais Vasco
Natural identities and social integration


November 30, 2023
Botond Koszegi | Universität Bonn
Müge Süer | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Are women in science less ambitious than men? Experimental evidence on the role of gender and STEM in promotion applications
Iuliia Grabova | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Confidence and communication: too much air time for some?


November 23, 2023
Amelie Schiprowski | Universität Bonn
Committee deliberation and gender differences in influence
Erik Wengström | Lund University
Behavioral policy targeting: Evidence from payments for vaccinations


November 16, 2023
Elliot Ash | ETH Zurich
Proverbs and behavioral economics


November 9, 2023
Marie-Louise Vierø | Aarhus University
Lost in objective translation: Awareness of unawareness when unknowns are not simply unknowns
Alexia Delfino | Bocconi University
Learning to see the world’s opportunities: memory, mental experiencing and the economic lives of the vulnerable


November 2, 2023
Ingrid Haegele | Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
The broken rung: Gender and the leadership gap
Louis-Pierre Lepage | Stockholm University
Do optional information policies increase equity? Evidence from two large-scale grading experiments


October 26, 2023
Evan Friedman | Paris School of Economics
(A)symmetric quantal response equilibrium: Representation and applications
Suanna Oh | Paris School of Economics
Psychological mechanisms for eliciting preferences and beliefs


October 19, 2023
Erik Snowberg | University of Utah
On loss aversion
Despoina Alempaki | Warwick Business School
The menu of deception


September 7, 2023
BBE Workshop | ESMT
Programme


July 20, 2023
Elif Kubilay | University of Essex
Long-term results from an educational intervention on inter-ethnic cohesion
Severine Toussaert | University of Oxford
Stochastic dominance and preference for randomization


July 13-14, 2023
Workshop “Matching Market Design: Strategy-Proofness and Beyond” | WZB
Programme


July 6, 2023
Sabrina Jeworrek | Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)
A cashless payment option in face-to-face fundraising
Heidi Christina Thysen | Norwegian School of Economics
Competing causal interpretations – a choice experiment


June 29, 2023
Mauricio Almeida Couri Ribeiro | University of Bristol
Choice and time allocation between simple contracts
Matthias Rodemeier | Bocconi University
Judging nudging: Understanding the welfare effects of nudges versus taxes


June 22, 2023
Lorenz Goette | National University of Singapore & University of Bonn
Understanding mechanisms of persistence in prosocial behavior: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Ragan Petrie | Texas A&M University
Extreme giving commitments
Michael Price | The University of Alabama
Racial and gender favoritism in crowdfunding – evidence from the field


June 21-23, 2023
Conference “Pro-sociality: Corporate Philanthropy and Individual Donations” | WZB
Programme


June 15, 2023
Chiara Aina | University of Zürich
Tailored stories
Paul Heidhues | Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Misinterpreting yourself


June 8, 2023
Mats Köster | Central European University, Vienna
Updating priors: The dynamics of chosen beliefs
Luis Santos Pinto | University of Lausanne
Confidence and gender gaps in competitive environments


June 1, 2023
Anna Becker | Stockholm University
Transactional preferences and the minimum wage
Joana Naritomi | London School of Economics
Cash transfers and the local economy: Evidence from Brazil


May 25, 2023
Simon Jaeger | MIT
Worker beliefs about outside options
Robert Slonim | University of Technology Sydney
Intertemporal coordination in volunteer markets


May 11, 2023
Nadja Dwenger | University of Hohenheim
What is fair? Experimental evidence on fair equality vs fair inequality
Catherine Roux | University of Basel
Multigame contact: a double-edged sword for cooperation


May 4, 2023
Simon Quinn | University of Oxford
Learning management through matching: A field experiment using mechanism design
Taisuke Imai | LMU München
Predicting the outcome of social science experiments


April 27, 2023
Jana Cahlíková | Universität Bonn
Youngism: Experimental evidence
Felix Chopra | University of Copenhagen
Home price expectations and spending: Evidence from a field experiment


April 20, 2023
Salvatore Nunnari | Bocconi University
Coordination with cognitive noise
Miriam Beblo | Universität Hamburg
Meta studies on competition entry and performance


March 28, 2023
Bergen-Berlin-Behavioral-Economics BBBE Workshop | University of Potsdam
Programme


February 16, 2023
Katharina Janezic | University of Oxford
Coordination and sophistication
Urs Fischbacher | University of Konstanz
Incentives for conformity and anticonformity


January 5, 2023
Alexandra Avdeenko | World Bank
Empowerment and non-formal education to reduce child marriage – Evidence from an RCT in Pakistan
Adrian Bruhin | University of Lausanne
Understanding mechanisms of persistence in prosocial behavior: Evidence from
a large-scale field experiment


2022


December 8, 2022
Bertil Tungodden | NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Second-best fairness: The trade-off between false positives and false negatives
Roberto Weber | University of Zurich
On the relative deservingness of capital and labor


December 1, 2022
Nagore Iriberri | University of the Basque Country
Do nonstrategic considerations matter for behavior in games? An experimental study informed by direct-sum decompositions of games
Zwetelina Iliewa | Universität Bonn
How much do rankings affect attention? Evidence from an at-scale natural field experiment on the Finnish stock market


November 24, 2022
Christian Traxler | Hertie School
Swiftness and delay of punishment
Miguel Costa-Gomes | The University of Edinburgh
Miscalibration, overconfidence and uncertainty


November 17, 2022
Petra Thiemann | Lund University
Incentives to reach high and low goals and academic performance


November 10, 2022
Nicola Gennaioli | Universita’ Bocconi
Imagining the future: Memory, simulation and beliefs about Covid
Stefan Trautmann | Universität Heidelberg
Reverse Bayesianism: Revising beliefs in light of unforeseen events


November 3, 2022
Gerald Eisenkopf | Universität Vechta
How groups shape competitive behavior


October 20, 2022
Katrin Gödker | Bocconi University
Disposed to be overconfident
Joël van der Weele | University of Amsterdam
Correcting consumer misperceptions about CO2 emissions


September 26, 2022
BBE Workshop | ESMT
Programme


July 21, 2022
Lydia Mechtenberg | Universität Hamburg
Self-signaling in voting
Siri Isaksson | Norwegian School of Economics
Shine a light (on the bright): Awards and the gender gap in knowledge contributions in STEM


July 14, 2022
Christine Laudenbach | SAFE Leibniz Institute for Financial Research Frankfurt
Beliefs about the stock market and investment choices: Evidence from a field experiment
Leonie Gerhards | King’s Business School London
Keep them out of it! How information externalities affect the willingness to sell personal data online


July 7, 2022
Aniol Llorente-Saguer | Queen Mary University of London
Weighting your vote
Astrid Hopfensitz | Toulouse School of Economics
The strategic display of emotions


June 30, 2022
Lea Cassar | Universität Regensburg
Keep calm and carry on: The short vs. long run effects of mindfulness meditation on (academic) performance
Sandro Ambuehl | University of Zurich
Interpreting the will of the people: A positive analysis of ordinal preference aggregation” as well as “politicians’ social welfare criteria: An experiment with German legislators


June 23, 2022
Luigi Butera | Copenhagen Business School
A new mechanism to alleviate the crises of confidence in science – with an application to the public goods game
Antonio Cabrales | University College London
The effect of ambiguity in strategic environments: an experiment


June 16, 2022
Michalis Drouvelis | University of Birmingham
Can priming close the gender competition gap?
Jonas Radbruch | IZA
Interview sequences and the formation of subjective


June 9, 2022
Chris Roth | University of Cologne
Stories, statistics and memory
Sabine Kröger | Université Laval
Health status and compliance with public health directives during the COVID-19 pandemic


June 2, 2022
Aurelien Baillon | Erasmus University Rotterdam
Leveraging probability distortion to target prevention? Evidence from a lottery experiment on cardiovascular risk
Julie Chytilová | Charles University
Correcting misperceptions about the views of the medical community has lasting impacts on Covid-19 vaccine take-up


May 19, 2022
Thomas Meissner | Maastricht University
Debt aversion: Theory and experiment
Kathleen Ngangoué | UCLA Anderson School of Management
Tell me now or tell me gradually: The resolution of uncertainty in the value and probability domains


May 17-18, 2022
Workshop series “Recent Advances in the Economics of Philanthropy” | WZB
Programme


May 12, 2022
Esther Blanco | Universität Innsbruck
The economics of label credence goods
Monika Schnitzer | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
The breakup of the bell system and its impact on US innovation


May 5, 2022
Nina Weber | King’s College London
Procedural fairness and externalities under uncertainty
Frauke Stehr | Maastricht University
Dodging high impact behavior with motivated beliefs
Julius Stoll | Hertie School
Zombie commissions of real estate agents
Müge Süer | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Are we self stereotyping in job applications?


April 28, 2022
Maria Bigoni | Università di Bologna
It’s payback time: New insights on cooperation in the repeated prisoners’ dilemma
Sigrid Suetens | Tilburg University
The effect of exposure to ethnic minorities on ethnic preferences


April 21, 2022
Maja Adena | WZB
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? A nation-wide field experiment on Facebook
Ciril Bosch | Technische Universität Berlin
Asset price dynamics and endogenous trader overconfidence
Klaus Schmidt | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
How to regulate carbon emissions with climate-conscious consumers


March 28, 2022
Bergen-Berlin-Behavioral-Economics BBBE Workshop (online) | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Programme


February 10, 2022
Mari Rege | University of Stavanger
Effects of supportive leadership behaviors on workers’ satisfaction, engagement and performance: An experimental field investigation
Ernesto Reuben | New York University Abu Dhabi
Gender biases in job referrals


2021


December 16, 2021
Tracy Xiao Liu | Tsinghua University
When to schedule attention instrument for classroom learning: A field experiment
Charles Bellemare | Laval University
Self-confidence and reactions to subjective performance evaluations


December 9, 2021
Benno Torgler | Queensland University of Technology
Protestantism and effort expenditure on the battlefield: Soldier-level evidence from World War II
Sabine Kröger | Laval University
How do people vote under preferential voting? An experiment on voting behavior and computational complexity


December 2, 2021
Hans Normann | Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Cooperation in multiplayer dilemmas


November 18, 2021
Valerio Capraro | Middlesex University
Playing with words: Do people exploit loaded language to affect others’ decisions for their own benefit?
Maria Cotofan | London School of Economics and Political Science
The true returns to the choice of occupation and education


November 11, 2021
Friederike Mengel | University of Essex
Non-bayesian statistical discrimination?


November 4, 2021
Mikhail Freer | University of Essex
Collective deliberation: An experiment
Frank Schilbach | MIT


October 28, 2021
Ed Hopkins | The University of Edinburgh
Cardinal sins? Conspicuous consumption, cardinal status and inequality
Anujit Chakraborty | University of California Davis
Higher-order beliefs in a networked dilemma


July 15, 2021
Ryan Oprea | University of California Santa Barbara
On the complexity of inferring models from data


July 8, 2021
Alessandra Cillo | Bocconi University
Predicting the present equivalent of multiple future cash flows
Iñigo Hernandez-Arenaz | University of the Balearic Islands
Unraveling soft-commitment: Evidence from a field experiment on recycling


July 1, 2021
Antoinette Schoar | MIT
Worker sorting, efficiency and development
Yan Chen | University of Michigan
Affective polarization breeds ideological polarization


June 24-25, 2021
Workshop series “Recent Advances in the Economics of Philanthropy” | WZB
Programme


June 24, 2021
Marie Claire Villeval | GATE-CNRS
Teaching norms: Direct evidence of parental transmission
Sevgi Yuksel | University of California Santa Barbara
Mental models and learning: The case of base-rate neglect


June 17, 2021
Michael Woodford | Columbia University
Imprecise probabilistic inference from sequential data
Ronald Peeters | University of Otago
Cost-(in)effective public good provision: An experimental exploration


June 10, 2021
Dirk Sliwka | University of Cologne
When bonuses backfire: Evidence from the workplace
Mariana Blanco | University of Rosario
How to make a criminal


June 3, 2021
Pia Pinger | University of Cologne
Mentoring and schooling decisions: Causal evidence
Russel Golman | Carnegie Mellon University
Acceptable discourse: Social norms of beliefs and opinions


May 27, 2021
Pedro Dal Bó | Brown University
The determinants of efficient behavior in coordination games
Chen Li | Erasmus University Rotterdam
Why do people choose gender congruent careers – an ambiguous story


May 20, 2021
Jonas Hjort | Columbia University
Informational barriers to market access: Experimental evidence from Liberian firms
Benjamin Enke | Harvard University
Cognitive uncertainty in intertemporal choice


May 6, 2021
Mario Macis | Johns Hopkins University
Incentivized peer referrals for Tuberculosis screening: Evidence from India


April 29, 2021
Philippe Aghion | College France, LSE
What are the labor and product market effects of automation? New evidence from France


April 15, 2021
Christine Exley | Harvard University
The gender gap in self promotion


March 9, 2021
Bergen-Berlin-Behavioral-Economics BBBE Workshop (online) | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Programme


February 11, 2021
Menusch Khadjavi | VU Amsterdam
Do scientists tell the truth? Evidence from two experiments
Florian Zimmermann | briq & University of Bonn
Associative memory and belief formation


February 4, 2021
Michel Maréchal | University of Zurich
The right to be heard: A randomized controlled trial on economizing procedural justice
Alex Imas | University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Dynamic inconsistency in risky choice: Evidence from the lab and field


January 28, 2021
Elena Cettolin | Tilburg University
Goals for development: Experimental evidence from Cassava processors
Martin Dufwenberg | University of Arizona
Regret in games


January 21, 2021
Jeanne Hagenbach | CNRS and Sciences Po Paris
Selective memory of psychological agent


2020


December 17, 2020
Pedro Rey Biel | ESADE Business School
Higher orders of rationality and the structure of games


December 10, 2020
Anne Karing | Princeton University
Social signaling and childhood immunization: A field experiment in Sierra Leone
Stephan Meier | Columbia Business School
Does growing up in a recession increase compassion? The case of attitudes towards immigration


December 3, 2020
Lisa Windsteiger | Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment
Christopher Rauh | University of Cambridge
The role of beliefs in maternal labor supply decisions


November 26, 2020
David Yang | Harvard University
Civil liberties in times of crisis
Stefania Bortolotti | Max Planck Institute for Reserach on Collective Goods
Betrayal, risk, and externalities: An experimental study on fairness ideals


November 19, 2020
Sally Sadoff | UC San Diego
Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during COVID-19


November 12, 2020
Michela Carlana | Harvard Kennedy School
Parents and peers: The cost of gender stereotypes
David Huffman | University of Pittsburgh
The complementary nature of trust and contract enforcement


November 5, 2020
Johannes Wohlfart | University of Copenhagen
Uncertainty and information acquisition: Evidence from firms and consumers
Katherine B. Coffman | Harvard Business School
Stereotypes and belief updating


October 29, 2020
Bernhard Kasberger | University of Oxford
An equilibrium model of the first-price auction with strategic uncertainty: Theory and empirics
Johannes Abeler | University of Oxford
Bounded rationality, complexity and optimal incentives


October 26, 2020
BBE Workshop (online) | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Programme


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 | Düsseldorf 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 Müller-Trede | IESE Business School Barcelona
Principled defection: Untapped social motivation as an impediment to cooperation
Aniko Öry | 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 Tecnológico Autónomo de México
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


2015


September 23, 2015
BBE Workshop | Technische Universität Berlin
Programme

March 23, 2015
BBE Workshop | WZB
Programme


2014


September 15, 2014
BBE Workshop | ESMT

March 11, 2014
BBE Workshop | WZB
Programme


2013


September 11, 2013
BBE Workshop | WZB
Programme

February 20, 2013
BBE Workshop | DIW


2012


September 19, 2012
BBE Workshop | WZB
Programme

February 10, 2012
BBE Workshop | DIW


2011


February 21, 2011
BBE Workshop | ESMT