The 2016 summer semester series had been held at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Burgstr. 26, 10178 Berlin.

Speakers
  • Apr 27  Marco Battaglini, Cornell University, on "The Political Economy of Public Debt: A Laboratory Study"

  • May 04 Nikita Roketskiy, University College London, on "Circles of Trust"

  • May 11 Armin Falk, University of Bonn, on "The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment"

  • May 25 Andrej Angelovski and Werner Güth, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, on "Voluntary cooperation in local public goods provision: An experimental study" and "(Sub) optimality and (non) optimal satisficing in a decision making experiment"

  • Jun 01  Yoram Halevy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, on “Ambiguous Correlation”

  • Jun 08  Tom Palfrey, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, on "Trading Votes for Votes: A Decentralized Matching Algorithm"

  • Jun 15  Manuel Bagues, Aalto University, on "Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?"

  • Jun 29  Abigail Barr, University of Nottingham, on "Unemployment and distributive preferences: Results from a longitudinal lab-in-the-field experiment"

  • Jul 06  David Reiley, University of California, Berkeley, on "Online Advertizing"

  • Jul 13  Marina Agranov, California Institute of Technology

 

The 2015/16 winter semester series had been held at the WZB, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin.

Speakers
  • Sep 09 Jason Shachat, Durham University, on "Discrete Rule Learning and the Bidding of the Sexes"

  • Oct 07  Hakan Holm, Lund University, on "Do CEOs differ from others in strategic decision-making?"

  • Oct 14  Enrique Fatas, University of East Anglia, on "Sacrifice - An Experiment on the Political Economy of Extreme Intergroup Punishment"

  • Oct 21  Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota, on "A Neuro-computational model of economic decisions: implications for economic theory"

  • Oct 28  Martin Schonger, ETH Zurich, on "Allais at the Horse Race: Testing Models of Ambiguity Aversion"

  • Nov 04  Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics, on "Do we hold men more responsible than women?"

  • Nov 11  David Ahn, University of California, Berkeley, on "Comparative Measures of Naiveté"

  • Nov 18  Frank Riedel, Bielefeld University, on on "Ellsberg Games - The Strategic Use of Ambiguity in Games"

  • Nov 25  Christian Basteck and Alexander Nestorov, WZB

  • Dec 02  Miguel Costa-Gomes, University of St Andrews, on "Choice, Deferral and Consistency"

  • Dec 09  Ralph-Christopher Bayer, The University of Adelaide, on Does the double dividend of relative auditing exist? Experiments on corporate-tax enforcement

  • Dec 16  Bettina Rockenbach, University of Cologne

  • Jan 06  Christian Koch, New York University Abu Dhabi, on "Let's talk it over: In the long run sanctions are not necessary for self-governance"

  • Jan 27  Anja Prummer, University of Cambridge

  • Feb 03  Hamid Aghadadashli, University of Duesseldorf, on "Advertising and price competition in online markets"

 

The 2015 summer semester series had been held at the Technische Universität Berlin, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1, 10587 Berlin.

Speakers
  • Apr 15  Jan Potters, Tilburg University, on "Flexibility and Cooperation with Imperfect Monitoring"

  • Apr 29  Nick Netzer, University of Zurich, on "Informational Requirements of Nudging"

  • May 06  Erik Eyster, London School of Economics, on "Preferences for Fair Prices, Cursed Inferences, and the Nonneutrality of Money"

  • May 13  Dan Friedman, University of California Santa Cruz, on "Emergence of Market Institutions in a Large Virtual Economy"

  • May 20  Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, University Bocconi, on "Stochastic Dominance Analysis without the Indepencence Axiom"

  • May 27  Elisa Cavatorta, King's College London, on "Preferences and Exposure to Policy Shocks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment"

  • Jun 10  Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan School of Management, on "Do Credit Card Companies Screen for Behavioral Biases?"

  • Jun 17  Antonio Cabrales, University College London, on "Can there be  a market for cheap talk information: some experimental evidence"

  • Jun 24  Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, on "Stochastic Choice and Revealed Perturbed Utility"

  • Jul 01   Sabine Kröger, Laval University Quebec, on "Public good production in heterogeneous groups: An experimental analysis on the relation between external return and information"

  • Jul 08   Michael Kosfeld, University of Frankfurt, on "Economic Preferences, Dropout from Eduction, and Transition to the Labor Market"

 

The 2014/15 winter semester series had been held at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Burgstr. 26, 10178 Berlin.

Speakers
  • Oct 22  Chris Starmer, University of Nottingham, on "How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?"

  • Oct 29  Jean-Robert Tyran, University of Wien, on "Democracy, Disincentives, and the Demand for Redistribution"

  • Nov 12  Roberto Weber, University of Zurich, on "Learning to Interact: A Study on Coordination and Centralization"

  • Nov 19  Christian Zehnder, University of Lausanne, on “'Just Words? Just Speeches?' On The Economic Value of Charismatic Leadership"

  • Nov 26  Theo Offerman, University of Amsterdam, on "Competition for Status Creates Superstars. An Experiment on Public Good Provision and Network Formation"

  • Dec 03  Arno Riedl, Maastricht University, on "Revealed Incomplete Preferences under Uncertainty"

  • Dec 10  Martin Peitz, University of Mannheim, on "Media See-saws: Winners and Losers on Media Platforms"

  • Dec 17  Julia Nafziger, Aarhus University, on "A Real-Effort Experiment on Gift Exchange with Temptation"

  • Jan 07   Andreas Fagereng, Statistics Norway, on "Why do Wealthy Parents have Wealthy Children?"

  • Jan 14  Jürgen Eichberger, University of Heidelberg, on "Preference for Randomization and Dynamic Consistency"

  • Jan 21  Topi Miettinen, Hanken School of Economics, on "Person-Organization Fit and Incentives: A Causal Test"

  • Jan 28  Andrea Isoni, University of Warwick, on "Focal Points and Payoff Information in Tacit Bargaining"

  • Feb 11  Christoph March, Technische Universität München, on "Even Experts Follow Large Herds: Naive Herding in the Laboratory"

 

The 2014 summer semester series had been held at the ESMT, Schlossplatz 1, 10178 Berlin.

Speakers
  • April 09  Alex Imas, Carnegie Mellon University, on "The Realization Effect: Risk Taking after Realized versus Paper Losses"

  • April 16  Tom Cunningham, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, on "Biases and Implicit Knowledge"

  • May 07 Andrew Schotter, New York University, on "Complementary Institutions and Economic Development: A Demonstration Experiment"

  • May 14 Erik Wengström, University of Lund, on "Risk aversion relates to cognitive ability: preferences or noise?"

  • May 21 Jidong Zhou, New York University, on "Competitive bundling"

  • May 28 Rajiv Sarin, University of Exeter, on "A Model of Satisficing Behaviour"

  • Jun 18  Burkhard Schipper, University of California, Davis, on "Strategic teaching and learning in games"

  • Jun 25  Uwe Sunde, Universität München, on "Heterogeneity in Discounting: Evidence from Representative Samples and Multiple Designs of Inter-Temporal Choice Experiments"

  • Jul 02  Ran Spiegler, University College London and Tel Aviv University, on "Bayesian Networks and Boundedly Rational Expectations"

  • Jul 09  Yan Chen, University of Michigan, on "Does Team Competition Increase Pro-Social Lending? Evidence from Online Microfinance"

  • Jul 16  Daniel Zizzo, University of East Anglia, on "Competence Versus Trustworthiness: What Do Voters Care About?" 

 

The 2013/14 winter semester series had been held at the WZB, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin.

Speakers
  • Oct 16  Joep Sonnemans, University of Amsterdam, on "Strategies and Evolution in the Minority Game: A Multi-Round Strategy Experiment"

  • Oct 23  Karine Nyborg, University of Oslo, on "Cooperation Is Relative: Framing and Income Effects with Public Goods"

  • Nov 13  Jean-Robert Tyran, University of Vienna, on "The Price of Prejudice"

  • Nov 20  Ingela Alger, Toulouse School of Economics, on "Evolutionary foundations of human motivation, and some consequences for economics"

  • Nov 27  Sandra Ludwig, Universität Ulm, on "Do women have more shame than men? An experiment on self-assessment and the shame of overestimating oneself"

  • Dec 11  Paul Viefers, DIW and Humboldt Universität, on "A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush: On Choice Behavior in an Optimal Stopping Task"

  • Dec 18  Pietro Ortoleva, Columbia University, on "Stochastic Choice and Hedging"

  • Jan  29  Gebhard Kirchgässner, Universität St. Gallen, on "Soft Paternalism, Merit Goods, and Normative Individualism"

  • Feb 05  Theodore Turocy, University of East Anglia, on "Bidding in first-price and second-price affiliated values auctions: An experiment"

  • Feb 12  Daniel Markovits, Yale Law School, on "The Distributional Preferences of an Elite"

 

The 2013 summer semester series had been held at the TU Berlin. For further information please follow this link: http://www.mikro.tu-berlin.de/menue/studium_und_lehre/uebersicht/bbe_seminar/