IZA Beliefs Workshop
+++ presentation: 30 minutes +++ floor discussion: 10 minutes +++
Program
Thursday, May 08
09:00 - 09:25
Registration
09:25 - 09:30
Welcome
09:30 - 10:10
Sonja Settele (University of Cologne), Steffen Altmann (University of Würzburg), Robert Mahlstedt (University of Copenhagen), Malte Jacob Rattenborg (University of Copenhagen), Alexander Sebald (Copenhagen Business School), Johannes Wohlfart (University of Cologne)
"Expected Reemployment Wages and Job Search"
10:10 - 10:50
Sili Zhang (LMU Munich), Lorenzo Casaburi (University of Zurich), Jack Willis (Columbia University)
"Time versus State in Commitment: Experimental Evidence from Crop Insurance in Uganda"
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00
Michael Thaler (University College London), Mattie Toma (University of Warwick), Victor Yaneng Wang (MIT)
"Numbers Tell, Words Sell"
12:00 - 12:40
Philipp Strack (Yale University)
"Misinterpreting Yourself"
12:40 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:10
Joel Flynn (Yale University), Peter Andre (SAFE), George Nikolakoudis (Princeton), Karthik Sastry (Princeton)
"Quick-Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption and Savings Behavior"
15:10 - 15:50
Sevgi Yuksel (New York University), Menglong Guan (Penn State University), Ryan Oprea (UC, Santa Barbara)
"Beyond Instrumental Value: How Complexity Shapes Information Demand"
15:50 - 16:20
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:40
Lingxuan Wu (Harvard University), Pierfrancesco Mei (Harvard University)
"Thinking about the Economy, Deep or Shallow?"
18:30
Dinner
Friday, May 09
09:00 - 09:40
Christina Felfe (University of Konstanz and IZA), Lea Cassar (Uni Regensburg), Denise Feigl (Uni Regensburg), Maximilian Müller (Toulouse School of Economics)
"Career Choices: The Role of Beliefs, Preferences and Perceived Pressure"
09:40 - 10:20
Nicola Gennaioli (Bocconi University)
"A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice"
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30
Ingar Haaland (Norwegian School of Economics), Felix Chopra (Frankfurt School), Fabian Roeben (University of Cologne), Chris Roth (University of Cologne), Vanessa Sticher (MIT )
"AI Customization and the Market for News"
11:30 - 12:10
David B. Huffman (University of Pittsburgh and IZA)
"Minds, Models and Markets: How Managerial Cognition Affects Pricing Strategies"
12:10 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:10
Francesca Bastianello (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
"Underreaction and Overreaction in Inference and Forecasting"
14:10 - 14:50
Chiara Aina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Florian Schneider (University of Copenhagen)
"Weighting Competing Models"
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