IZA Beliefs Workshop
Program
+++ presentation: 30 minutes +++ floor discussion: 10 minutes +++
Thursday, June 13
09:00 - 09:25
Registration
09:25 - 09:30
Welcome
09:30 - 10:10
Sarah Eichmeyer (Bocconi University), Luca Braghieri (Bocconi University)
"The Value of Learning History"
10:10 - 10:50
Katrin Gödker (Bocconi University), Terrance Odean (UC, Berkely), Paul Smeets (University of Amsterdam)
"Disposed to Be Overconfident"
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:00
Christine Laudenbach (Goethe University Frankfurt), Kamila Duraj (Goethe University Frankfurt), Daniela Grunow (Goethe University Frankfurt), Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt), Stephan Siegel (University of Washington)
"Rethinking the Stock Market Participation Puzzle: A Qualitative Approach"
12:00 - 12:40
Muriel Niederle (Stanford University), Max Bakhtin (Stanford University), Markus Mobius (University of Michigan)
"A Memory Model of Belief Formation"
12:40 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:10
Yucheng Liang (Carnegie Mellon University), Wenzhuo Xu (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Why Exclude Test Scores from Admission Decisions?"
15:10 - 15:50
John Conlon (Stanford University), Spencer Kwon (Brown University)
"Persuasion through Simulation"
15:50 - 16:20
Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00
Benjamin Enke (Harvard University)
"-- to be announced --"
18:30
Dinner
Friday, June 14
09:00 - 09:40
Felix Chopra (IZA), Ingar Haaland (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
"Conducting Qualitative Interviews with AI"
09:40 - 10:20
Ferdinand von Siemens (Goethe University Frankfurt), Andreas Grunewald (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and IZA), Victor Klockmann (University of Würzburg), Alicia von Schenk (University of Würzburg)
"Are Biases Contagious? The Influence of Communication on Motivated Beliefs"
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30
Frederik Schwerter (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and IZA), Anna Kerkhof (LMU Munich), Johannes Münster (University of Cologne)
"Fact Checking, Selective Attention and Belief Updating"
11:30 - 12:10
Johannes Wohlfart (University of Cologne), Sebastian Link (Ifo and IZA), Andreas Peichl (LMU Munich and IZA), Christopher Roth (University of Cologne)
"Attention to the Macroeconomy"
12:10 - 13:30
Lunch
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