Previous Seminars

Spring 2024

March 14th – Leeat Yariv (Princeton University)
Title: “The Dynamics of Networks and Homophily”

March 28th – Maria Abascal (New York University)
Title: “Diversity and Prosocial Behavior Across NYC Neighborhoods: Evidence from a Lost Wallet Experiment”

April 4th – Björn Bartling (Zurich University)
Title: “Paternalistic Interventions: Determinants of Demand and Supply”

April 11th – Shachar Kariv (University of California, Berkeley)
Title: “The Predictivity and Falsifiability of Theories of Choice Under Uncertainty”

April 18th – Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)
Title: “How large is that treatment effect, really?”

April 25th – Benjamin Bushong (Michigan State)
Title: “Heterogeneous Tastes and Social (Mis)Learning”

May 2nd – Salvatore Nunnari (Bocconi University)
Title: “Cognitive Skills and the Demand for Bad Policy”

Fall 2023

September 21st – Alex Imas (University of Chicago)
Title: “Over- and Underreaction to Information”

October 5th – Daniel Chen (Toulouse School of Economics)
Title: “Data Science for Justice: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in Kenya”

October 19th – WonSeok Yoo (New York University)
Title: “Belief Updating Under Cognitive Dissonance: An Experimental Study”

November 2nd – Jimena Galindo (New York University)
Title: “Learning with Misspecified Models: The Case of Overestimation”

November 16th – Marina Agranov (California Institute of Technology)
Title: “Disentangling Suboptimal Updating: Complexity, Structure, and Sequencing” (joint with Pellumb Reshidi from Duke)

November 30th – Marie-Claire Villeval (Université de Lyon)
Title: “Selective Information Sharing and Group Delusion”

Spring 2023

May 04 – Daniel Martin (University of California Santa Barbara)
Title: “Labeling and Train
ing with Elicited Beliefs”

April 27 – Annie Liang (Northwestern University)
Title: “The Transfer Performance of Economic Models”

April 20 – Josh Schwartzstein (Harvard Business School)
Title: “Model Persuasion: Theory and Experimental Evidence”

April 13 – Severine Toussaert (Oxford University)
Title: “Stochastic dominance and preference for randomization”

March 23 – Jason Somerville (Federal Reserve Bank)
Title: “Distinguishing Common Ratio Preferences from Common Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks”

March 30 – Anne Karing (University of Chicago)
Title: “Optimal Incentives in the Presence of Social Norms: Experimental Evidence from Kenya”

Fall 2022

September 08 – Collin Raymond (Cornell University)
Title: “Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision”

September 22 – Alistair Wilson (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: “Predicting Multiplayer Coordination in Repeated Games: Some Theory, Some Lab, Some AIs”

October 06 – Bill Zame (UCLA)
Title: “Do Decision Makers Have Subjective Probabilities?  An Experimental Test”

October 20 – Eric Spurlino (NYU)
Title: “Rationally Inattentive and Strategically (un)Sophisticated: Theory and Experiment”

November 03 – Erkut Ozbay (U. of Maryland)
Title: “The Thrill of Gradual Learning”

November 17 – Colin Sullivan (Purdue University)
Title: “Eliciting Preferences over Life and Death: Experimental Evidence from Organ Transplantation”

Spring 2022

March 10 – Peter Schwardmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: “Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking ”

March 31 – Isabelle Brocas (University of Southern California)
Title: “Dynamic Coordination in Efficient and Fair Strategies: A Developmental Perspective”

April 07 – Frank Schilbach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title: “Learning in the Household”

April 14 – Eugenio Proto (NYU Visitor)
Title: “Reverse Bayesianism Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events”

April 21 – Yucheng Liang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: “The Inference-Forecast Gap in Belief-Updating” 

April 28 – Andreas Blume (University of Arizona)
Title: “Mediated Talk: An Experiment”

May 5 – Sally Sadoff (University of California San Diego)
Title: “Earnings, Parenthood and Gender Differences in Choice of Educational Field”

Fall 2021

September 9 – Georg Weizsacker (HU Berlin)
Title: “Coaudience Neglect”

September 23 – Dorothea Kübler (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
Title: “Repugnant Transactions: The Role of Agency and Extreme Consequences”

October 7 – Gary Charness (University of California Santa Barbara )
Title: “Improving Children’s Food Choices: Experimental Evidence From the Field”

October 21 – Kirby Nielsen (California Institute of  Technology)
Title: “When Choices are Mistakes”

November 4 – Joshua Knobe (Yale University)
Title: “Ordinary Judgements of Causation”

November 11 – Tianzan Pang (NYU)
Title:  “Persistently Ignoring Others’ Information: A Laboratory Experiment on Retail Investors”

November 18 – Amanda Friedenberg (University of Arizona)
Title: “Is Bounded Reasoning about Rationality Driven by Limited Ability?”

December 2 – Paul J. Healy (Ohio State University)
Title: “Incentive Compatibility in Experiments: An Overview”

Spring 2021

March 4 – Nagore Iriberri ( University of Basque County)
Title: “Naivete and Sophistication in Initial and Repeated Play in Games”

March 11 – Eva Vivalt (University of Toronto)
Title: “How Do Policy-makers Update Their Beliefs?”

March 18 – Georg Weizsäcker (HU Berlin)
Title: “Biased Wage Expectations and Female Labor Supply”

March 25 – Antonio Cabrales (Carlos lll de Madrid)
Title: “What Does Make People Nice: A Common Identity, a Common Interest, a Large Shock?”

April 8 – Sabine Kröger (Laval)
Title: “Optimal Frequency of Portfolio Evaluation in a Choice Experiment with Ambiguity and Loss Aversion”

April 22- Catherine Eckel (TAMU)
Title: “The Democratic Peace: An Experimental Test of a Causal Relation and of Underlying Mechanisms”

April 29 – Katherine Milkman (Wharton)
Title: “Mega-Studies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioral Science”

May 6 – Chad Kendall (USC BS)
Title: “On the Complexities of Model Inference”

Fall 2020

September 3 – Marta Serra-Garcia (University of California, San Diego)
Title: “Mistakes, Overconfidence and the Effect of Sharing on Detecting Lies”

September 17 – Dorothea Kübler (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
Title: “How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems”

October 1 – Samuel Kapon (New York University)
Title:  “Making the Most of Limited Government Capacity”

October 22 – Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: “Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem” 

November 5  – Utteeyo Dasgupta (Wagner College)
Title: “Games of Prejudice – Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin”

November 19 – John Duffy (University of California, Irvine)
Title: “Bargaining Under Liquidity Constraints: Nash vs. Kalai in the Laboratory”

Spring 2020

March 12 – Sanjeev Goyal
Title: “Large Scale Experiments on Networks: A New Platform with Applications”

February 27 – Anujit Chakraborty
Title: “Cooperation in Finitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma”

Fall 2019

September 5 – Ernst Fehr (New York University)
Title: “Social Preferences and Redistributive Politics”

September 12 – Tim Cason (Purdue University)
Title: “Correlated Beliefs: Predicting Outcomes in 2×2 Games” 

September 26 –  Karl Schlag (University of Vienna)
Title: “Evaluating Treatment Effects and Replicability”

October 17 – Marco Casari (University of Bologna)
Title: “Financial Intermediation and the Macroeconomy: An Experiment”

October 24 – Kathleen Ngangoue (New York University)
Title: “Common-Value versus Common-Probability Auctions”

November 07 – Alex Rees-Jones (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: “Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching”

November 21 – Ben Greiner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Title: “The Effect of a `None of the Above’ Ballot Paper Option on Voter and Politician Behavior and Election Outcomes”

December 05 – David Budescu (Fordham University)
Tile: “The Wisdom of Forecasting Crowds and Teams”

December 12 – Andrzej Baranski-Madrigal (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Title: “Communication in Multilateral Bargaining with Joint Production”

Spring 2019

May 9 – Lise Vesterlund
Title: “Gender Differences in Negotiation: Dialing up or Down?”

May 2 – Yoram Halevy
Title: “Hard-to-Interpret Signals”

April 18 – Rachel Kranton
Title: “Deconstructing Group Bias”

April 11 – Olivier Armantier
Title: “Overcoming Discount Window Stigma: An Experimental Investigation”

April 4 – Charles Noussair
Title: “Sequential Search with a Price Freeze Option: Theory and Experimental Evidence”

March 28 – Johanna Mollerstrom
Title: “A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior”

March 21 – Charles Sprenger
Title: “Direct Tests of Cumulative Prospect Theory”

Fall 2018

September 13 – Natalie Lee (NYU)
Title: “Feigning Ignorance for Long-term Gains: Theory and Experiment”  

September 27 – Gary Charness (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Title: “Incentivizing Exercise Improves Academic Performance”  

October 11 – Dan Friedman (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Title: “Price Dispersion and Cycles: Theory and Experiment”

October 25 – Axel Ockenfels (University of Cologne)
Title: “Engineering Trust Among Strangers”

November 8 – Florian Ederer (Yale University)
Title: “The Persistent Power of Promises”

November 29 – Leeat Yariv (Princeton University)
Title: “Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action in the Lab”

December 13 – Sevgi Yuksel (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Title: “How Do People Choose Between Biased Information Sources? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment”

Spring 2018

May 3 – Andrea Robbett
Title: “Voter Expression and Information Acquisition in Common Value Elections”

April 26 – Pietro Ortoleva
Title: “Econographics”

April 12 – Fabio Maccheroni
Title: “Multinomial Logit Processes and Preference Discovery: Inside and Outside the Black Box”

March 15 – Daniel Martin
Title: “Inattention to Game Form: A Theory of the WTA/WTP Gap”

March 8 – Christine Exley
Title: “Motivated Framing Effects”

March 1 – Philipp Strack
Title: “Too Proud to Stop: Regret in Dynamic Decisions”