10th Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference (ECBE)
Reviewing Committee
Luca Braghieri (Bocconi University), Ben Bushong (Michigan State University), John Conlon (Stanford University), Katrin Gödker (Bocconi University)
Program
+++ Presentation: 15 minutes +++ Q&A: 5 minutes +++
Monday, July 01
09:00 - 09:30
Registration
09:30 - 09:40
Welcome Remarks
09:40 - 11:00
Session 1: Social Values in Markets
Chair: Luca Henkel (University of Chicago and IZA)
Marc Kaufmann (Central European University)
"Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers"
Sili Zhang (LMU Munich)
"What Money Can Buy: How Market Exchange Promotes Values"
Anna Schulze Tilling (University of Bonn)
"Changing Consumption Behavior with Carbon Labels: Causal Evidence on Behavioral Channels and Effectiveness"
Andrej Woerner (LMU Munich)
"How to Increase Public Support for Carbon Pricing"
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Session 2: Learning I
Chair: Luca Henkel (University of Chicago and IZA)
Franz Ostrizek (Sciences Po, Paris and IZA)
"Acquisition, (Mis)use and Dissemination of Information: The Blessing of Cursedness and Transparency"
Peter Andre (Goethe University Frankfurt)
"Mental Models of the Stock Market"
Cuimin Ba (University of Pittsburgh)
"Robust Misspecified Models and Paradigm Shifts"
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Session 3: Behavioral Consumption
Chair:
Holly Dykstra (University of Konstanz)
"The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through"
Rafael Jimenez (Bocconi University)
"When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media"
Philip Schnorpfeil (Goethe University Frankfurt)
"Households' Response to the Wealth Effects of Inflation"
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:40
Session 4: Attention
Chair:
John Conlon (Stanford University)
"Attention, Neglect and Persuasion"
Andreas Kraft (University of Chicago)
"Behavioral Skimming: Theory and Evidence from Resale Markets"
18:30
Conference Dinner
Tuesday, July 02
09:15 - 09:40
Welcome Coffee
09:40 - 11:00
Session 5: Complexity
Chair: Cuimin Ba (University of Pittsburgh)
Jeffrey Yang ( Harvard University)
"Similarity and Comparison Complexity"
Luca Henkel (University of Chicago and IZA)
"Interpersonal Uncertainty as the Origin of Differences in Moral Behavior"
Gonzalo Arrieta (Stanford University)
"Procedural Decision-Making in the Face of Complexity"
Shakked Noy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Lost in Transmission"
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Session 6: Learning II
Chair: Cuimin Ba (University of Pittsburgh)
Katrin Gödker (Bocconi University)
"Disposed to Be Overconfident"
Chiara Aina (Harvard University)
"Contingent Belief Updating"
Mattie Toma (University of Warwick)
"Numbers Tell, Words Sell"
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Session 7: Methods
Chair: Mattie Toma (University of Warwick)
Felix Chopra (IZA)
"Conducting Qualitative Interviews with AI"
Fernando Payro Chew (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
"Bayesian Adaptive Choice Experiments"
David Walker-Jones (University of Surrey)
"Difficult Decisions"
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00
Session 8: Inefficiencies and Inequities
Chair: Mattie Toma (University of Warwick)
Manasvini Singh (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Rationing by Race"
Charlie Rafkin (MIT)
"Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market"
Germán Reyes (Middlebury College and IZA)
"Cognitive Endurance, Talent Selection, and the Labor Market Returns to Human Capital"
17:00 - 17:10
Closing Remarks
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