Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory, Department of Economics, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science and Paul Merage School of Business Present:
Southwest Experimental & Behavioral Economics Conference
Lyman Porter Colloquium Room (Room 5200, Business School I) Friday and Saturday, May 20 & 21, 2016
Friday, May 20
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome
9:10 – 9:40 Waiting for the Glow: Theory and Experiments on Intertemporal Altruism, Marta Serra-Garcia, UCSD & CESifo, (with James Andreoni, UCSD & NBER, and Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Queensland University of Technology)
9:40 – 10:10 Testable Implications of Models of Intertemporal Choice: Exponential Discounting and Its Generalizations, Taisuke Imai, (with Federico Echenique and Kota Saito), Caltech
10:10 – 10:40 Dynamic Inconsistency in Food Choice: Experimental Evidence from a Food Desert, Sally Sadoff, UCSD, (with Anya Samek, USC, and Charles Sprenger, UCSD)
10:40 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 When to Quit: Narrow Bracketing and Reference Dependence in Taxi Drivers, Vincent Leah-Martin, UCSD
11:30 – 12:00 Learning from Prices in Models of Models of Higher Order Beliefs, Radhika Lunawat, UCI
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch (by rsvp)
1:30 – 2:00 Communication Without the Cooperative Principle: A Signaling Experiment, Cailin O'Connor, (with Simon Huttegger, Justin Bruner and Hannah Rubin), UCI
2:00 – 2:30 Information Transmission and the Shadow of the of the Future, Emanuel Vespa, (with Alistair Wilson), UCSB
2:30 – 3:00 Experimenting with Measurement Error: Techniques with Applications to the Caltech Cohort Study, Ben Gillen, (with Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv), Caltech
3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:00 Equilibrium Selection in Stable Matching Mechanisms: Experimental Evidence, Ahrash Dianat, (with Marco Castillo), Caltech
4:00 – 4:30 Population Uncertainty in Voluntary Contributions of Public Goods, Duk Goo Kim, Caltech
5:30 – 8:00 Dinner, Plenary Speaker Shyam Sunder, Yale School of Management, UCI University Club (by invitation)
Saturday, May 21
9:00 – 9:30 Candidate entry and political polarization: An experimental study, Jens Grosser, FSU, (with Thomas R. Palfrey, Caltech)
9:30 – 10:00 Dump, Date, or Marry: Endogenous Group Formation with Varied Contract Length, Sean D'Evelyn, LMU
10:00 – 10:30 A Theory of Mind Ability and Cooperation in Prisoners Dilemma, Garret Ridinger, (with Michael McBride), UCI
10:30 – 10:50 Break
10:50 – 11:20 Persistence of Power: Dynamic Multilateral Bargaining, Marina Agranov, Caltech
11: 20 – 11:50 An Empirical Investigation of Wagering Behavior in a Large Sample of Slot Machine Gamblers, Florina Salaghe, (with James Sundalie, Mark Nichols, Federico Guerrero), University of Nevada, Reno
11:50 – 12:20 Tra i Lioni: The Economics of Supersition, Joshua B. Miller, (with Tommaso Coen, Martin Dufwenberg, Giovanna Invernizzi and Luiz Oliviera), Bocconi University
12:20 – 12:30 Closing remarks
12:30 Adjournment
RSVP to conference to Joanna Kerner at kernerj@uci.edu.