CESifo Area Conference on Behavioral Economics 2021

Program

• Friday, 29 October 2021

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    Presenting authors are denoted in capital letters | Timing: 25 min presentation and 10 min discussion 

    10:15 – 10:25	Welcome and Introduction Chair: Klaus Schmidt
    	Session 1a  Distributional Preferences  Chair: Klaus Schmidt
    10:25 - 11:00	Preferences for the Allocation of Production Rewards between Capital and Labor Florian Schneider, ROBERTO WEBER (University of Zurich) and Vanessa Valero
    11:00 - 11:35	Fairness across the World: Preferences and Beliefs Ingvild Almås, ALEXANDER CAPPELEN (Norwegian School of Economics), Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden
    	Session 1b Incentives    Chair: Matthias Sutter
    10:25 - 11:00	The Efficacy of Tournaments for Non-Routine Team Tasks Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, DAVID SCHINDLER (Tilburg University) and Simeon Schudy
    11:00 - 11:35	Adverse Effects of Control: Evidence from a Field Experiment HOLGER HERZ (University of Fribourg) and Christian Zihlmann
    11:35 - 11:50	Break
    	Session 2a  Social Welfare Chair: Christopher Roth
    11:50 - 12:25	Social Institutions and Bias in the Aggregate Benjamin Enke and THOMAS GRAEBER (Harvard Business School)
    12:25 - 13:00	The Social Welfare Function of Elected Representatives SANDRO AMBUEHL (University of Zurich)
    	Session 2b Social Choice Chair: David Schindler
    11:50 - 12:25	Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrolment HENNING HERMES (NHH Bergen), Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter and Simon Wiederhold
    12:25 - 13:00	School Choice and Loss Aversion VINCENT MEISNER (TU Berlin) and Jonas von Wangenheim
    13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
    	Prize Sessions Chair: Roberto Weber
    14:00 – 14:35	Does Identity Affect Labor Supply? SUANNA OH (briq)
    14:35 – 14:40	Short Break
    14:40 – 15:15	Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission LUCA BRAGHIERI (LMU Munich)
    15:15 – 15:20	Short Break
    15:20 – 15:55	Signalling Moral Values through Consumption FLORIAN SCHNEIDER (University of Zurich)
    15:55 – 16:10	Coffee Break
    	Session 3a Consumer Choice Chair: Nick Netzer
    16:10 – 16:45	Dominance Seeking and the Economics of Exclusion ALEXANDER IMAS (University of Chicago) and  Kristof Madarasz online
    16:45 – 17:20	Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice BENJAMIN ENKE (Harvard University) and Thomas Graeber online
    	Session 3b  Learning and Fact Checking Chair: Fabian Kosse
    16:10 – 16:45	Learning in the Household FRANK SCHILBACH (MIT Economics) online
    16:45 – 17:20	The Demand for Fact Checking CHRISTOPHER ROTH (University of Cologne)
    17:20 – 17:30	Break
    	Keynote 1 Chair: Bertil Tungodden
    17: 30 – 18:30	A Stepping Stone Approach to Understanding Harmful Norms Selim Gulesci, San Jindani, ELIANA LA FERRARA (Bocconi University), David Smerdon, Munshi Sulaiman and Peyton Young

• Saturday, 30 October 2021

  • 	Session 4a Prosocial Behavior of Children Chair: Henning Hermes
    10:15 – 10:50	Prosociality and Competition Evidence from a Long-run Field Experiment FABIAN KOSSE (LMU Munich) and Michela Tincani
    10:50 – 11:25	The Roots of Cooperation  Zvonimir Basic, Parampreet Bindra, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Angelo Romano, MATTHIAS SUTTER (Max-Planck-Institute) and Claudia Zoller
    	Session 4b Motivated Beliefs, Salience and Risky Choices Chair: Florian Engl
    10:15 – 10:50	Risk-Taking under Limited Liability: Quantifying the Role of Motivated Beliefs CIRIL BOSCH ROSA (TU Berlin), Frank Heinemann and Daniel Gietl
    10:50 – 11:25	Salient Cues and Complexity MARKUS DERTWINKEL-KALT (University of Konstanz) and Mats Köster
    11:25 - 11:45	Break
    	Session 5a Obfuscation Chair: Klaus Schmidt
    11:45 – 12:20	Obfuscation in Competitive Markets ERNST FEHR (University of Zurich) and Keyu Wu
    	Session 5b  Social Conformity Chair: Alexander Cappelen
    11:45 – 12:20	Social Conformity in the Workplace: Evidence from Field Experiment ANIK ASHRAF (LMU Munich)
    12:20 – 12:25	Break
    	Session 6a Fairness and Information Chair: Holger Herz
    12:25 - 13:00	Fairness Preferences in the Face of Limited Information BERTIL TUNGODDEN (Norwegian School of Economics)
    	Session 6b  Identification from Response Data Chair: Thomas Graeber
    12:25 - 13:00	Happy Times: Identification from Ordered Response Data NICK NETZER (University of Zurich)
    13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
    	Session 7a  Field Experiments on Worker Productivity Chair: Anik Ashraf
    14:00 - 14:35	Do Financial Concerns Lower Productivity? SUPREET KAUR (UC Berkeley), Sendhil Mullainathan, Suanna Oh and Frank Schilbach online
    14:35 –15:10	Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention SULE ALAN (European University Institute), Gozde Corekcioglu and Matthias Sutter online
    	Session 7b  Recognition and Attribution Chair: Sandro Ambühl
    14:00 – 14:35	Social Recognition: Experimental Evidence from Blood Donors Lorenz Goette and EGON TRIPODI (University of Essex)
    14:35 –15:10	Causal Responsibility Attribution: Theory and Experimental Evidence FLORIAN ENGL (University of Regensburg)
    15:10 – 15:25	Coffee Break
    	Keynote 2 Chair: Ernst Fehr
    15:25 – 16: 25	Bottlenecks for Policy Experiments STEFANO DELLAVIGNA (University of California, Berkeley), Woojin Kim and Elizabeth Linos
    	Presentation of Award Closing and Farewell