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Behavioral Workshops

Sponsored by the Gatto Economic Research & Faculty Development Fund

Cornell has two complementary workshops that focus on the intersection of psychology and economics, and these workshops meet at the same time on alternate Tuesdays. The Behavioral Economics Workshop (in normal text below) focuses more on the economics side of behavioral research, whereas the BEDR Workshop (in italics below) focuses more on the psychology side of behavioral research. Graduate students interested in Behavioral Economics research are encouraged to attend both.

Both workshops meet on Tuesdays at 11:45-1:15 in 141 Sage Hall (unless otherwise noted).

September 1 - Stephan Meier (Columbia University)
Stability of Time Preferences (joint w/Charles Sprenger)

September 8 - Shane Frederick (Yale University)
Anchoring in Sequential Judgments (joint w/Daniel Mochon)

September 15 - Raj Chetty (Harvard University) (joint w/ Public Econ)
Salience and Taxation: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/chetty/files/taxsalience_aer.pdf
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/chetty/files/eitcblock.pdf

September 21 - (Mon., 4:15 p.m., 498 Uris) - Antonio Rangel (CalTech) (joint w/ Public Econ)
Neuroeconomics of Simple Choice

September 22 - (B06 Sage Hall) - Antonio Rangel (CalTech)
Neurobiology of Self-Control

September 29 - (B06 Sage Hall) - Stefan Penczynski (Cornell University)
Out of Your Mind: Estimating the Level-k Model (joint w/Konrad Burchardi)

October 5 - (Mon.,     ) - Claudia Sahm (Federal Reserve Board) - CANCELLED

October 6 - (B06 Sage Hall) - Brian Wansink (Cornell University) - CANCELLED

October 20 - Paul Heidhues (University of Bonn)
Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market (joint w/Botond Koszegi)

October 27 - Eric Johnson (Columbia University)
Constructing Preference from Memory: A Query Theory Account (talk based on the following 2 papers)
Partitioning Default Effects: Why People Choose Not to Choose (joint w/Isaac Dinner, Daniel Goldstein & Kaiya Liu)
A Dirty Word or a Dirty World? Attribute Framing, Political Affiliation, and Query Theory (joint w/David Hardisty & Elke Weber)

November 3 - Josh Schwartzstein (Harvard University)
Selective Attention and Learning

November 10 - Chenbo Zhong (University of Toronto)
Moral Correlates of Cleanliness and Darkness

November 13 - (Fri., 4:00 p.m., STL 265) - Department Wide Seminar - Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)
Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India (joint w/Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak & Jeanne Lafortune)

November 17 - David Huffman (Swarthmore College)
Reference Points and Effort Provision (joint w/Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk & Lorenz Gotte

November 24 - Leif Nelson (New York University)
Interrupted Consumption: Disrupting Adaptation to Hedonic Experiences (joint w/Tom Meyvis)

December 1 - Andrew Schotter (New York University)
On Blame-Freeness and Reciprocity: An Experimental Study (joint w/Mariana Blanco & Bogachan Celen)

December 4 - (Fri., 4:00 p.m., STL 265) - Frank Knight Lecture- Roger Myerson - (University of Chicago)
Understanding the Foundations of Institutions: Moral Hazard in High Office

December 8 - Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University, visiting Columbia University)