Bay Area Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop
(BABEEW)
May 4-5, 2012. Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
Friday, May 4th
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Dean's Welcome
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Plenary Session
Hersh Shefrin: Behavioral Finance and the Pricing Kernel Puzzle: Estimating Sentiment, Risk Aversion, and Time Preference
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Parallel Session 1
1A: Financial Decisions
Guerrero: Does Experiencing a Market Crash Make All the Difference? An Experiment on the Depression Babies Hypothesis
Motika: Knowledge and Planning in Saving Choices
Rabanal: The Strategic Decision to Default with Presence of Neighbor Effects
1B: Labor Markets
Acquisti: An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks
Gee: Getting a Job From a Friend: Weak Ties on Facebook's Social Network
Yannelis: Indiscriminate Discrimination : A Correspondence Test for Ethnic Homophily in the Chicago Labor Market
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Parallel Session 2
2A: Expectations
Cardella: Strategic Guilt Induction Stone: Measurement Error and the Hot Hand
Tasoff: Everyone Believes in Redemption: Overoptimism and Nudges
2B: Games
Fragiadakis: Identifying Predictable Players
Shafran: Spatial Externalities in Interdependent Security Games
Silvestre: Embedding choices and risk aversion
12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Walking Tour
History of Santa Clara: Professor George Giacomini
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Plenary Session
Meir Statman: A behavioral asset pricing model with social responsibility factors
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Parallel Session 3 Session
3A: Gender and Social Preferences
Kamas: Can Social Preferences Explain Gender Differences in Economic Behavior?
Visser: Gender, sexual identity, and altruism
Session 3B: Auctions
Caldara: Bidding Behavior in Pay-to-Bid Auctions: An Experimental Study
Griffin: Bidder Behavior in a First-Price Sealed Bid Auction for Multiple Common Value Goods with Endogenous Entry
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m. Parallel Session 4
Session 4A: Social Identity
Mozumder: Status, Risk, and Catching Up
Sheremeta: Facing Your Opponents: Social Identification and Information Feedback in Contests
Viotti: Does Self-Deceptive Enhancement Affect Attitudes Toward Inequality?
Zhang: The Unfavored Group Favors the Group Less: Social Identity in Dictators Games among Migrant Workers in China
4B: Field Experiments in Developing Countries
Callen: Violent Trauma and Risk Preference: Artefactual and Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Cassar: Institutions, Culture and Economic Exchange: Experimental Evidence from Italy and Kosovo on the Causal Effect of Legal Institutions
Lybbert: Targeting Technology to Reduce Poverty & Conserve Resources: Experimental Delivery of Laser Land Leveling to Farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India
Petraud: Understanding crop insurance demand in developing countries: Experimental evidence from behavioral games in Peru.
5:20 p.m. – 5:35 p.m. Break
5:35 p.m. – 6:20 p.m.
Plenary Session
John Morgan: Testing the CNBC Effect: Behavioral Impacts of Public Information
6:20 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Drinks and Appetizers
Nobili Hall Porch
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 pm Dinner Saturday.
Nobili Hall Dining Room
May 5th
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Plenary Session
Charles Holt: A Multi-site Attacker Defender Game with Value Disparities
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Parallel Session 5
Session 5A: Charitable Giving
Armantier: Rob Peter to Pay Paul, Are Charitable Contributions Substitutes?
Exley: Volunteer Behavior: The Downside of Good Reputations and Incentives
Rao: Avoiding The Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving
Stoian: Dishonesty and Charitable Behavior Session
5B: Happiness
Foldvary: A Theory of Utopian Behavioral Economics
Ifcher: A Bundle of Joy: Does Parenting Really Make Us Miserable
Szembrot: Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Towards National Well-being Indices Based on Stated Preference
Zarghamee: TBA
11:20 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. Break
11:35 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Parallel Session 6
Session 6A: Cheap Talk
Shahriar: When Does Cheap-Talk (Fail to) Increase Efficient Coordination? Experimental Evidence
Wang: Experimental Implementations and Robustness of Fully Revealing Equilibria in Multidimensional Cheap Talk
Session 6B: Experimental Macroeconomics
Magnani: Time versus State Dependence in Laboratory Ss Pricing Games
Petersen: Nonneutrality of Money, Preferences, and Expectations in Laboratory New Keynesian Economies
12:20 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Plenary Session
David Reilly: Location, Location, Location: Proximity and Repetition Increase Effectiveness of Display Ads in Controlled Experiments
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Parallel Session 7
7A: Social Preferences
Jamison: Endogenous Public Goods Institutions: Who Likes to Punish?
Myung: Competition and Public Goods of the Ultimatum Game
Sadrieh: Concurrence of Pro-Social and Anti-Social Preferences
Taubinsky: Social Pressure and Pro-Social Acts: Theory and Experiments
7B: Field Experiments in Developing Countries
Callen: Violent Trauma and Risk Preference: Artefactual and Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Cassar: Institutions, Culture and Economic Exchange: Experimental Evidence from Italy and Kosovo on the Causal Effect of Legal Institutions
Lybbert: Targeting Technology to Reduce Poverty & Conserve Resources: Experimental Delivery of Laser Land Leveling to Farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India
Petraud: Understanding crop insurance demand in developing countries: Experimental evidence from behavioral games in Peru.
3:35 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. Break
3:50 p.m. – 4:35 p.m.
Plenary Session
Muriel Niederle: Gender, competition and career choices
4:35 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Wrap-up
