CESifo Area Conference on Behavioral Economics 2022

Program

• Friday, 14 October 2022

  • 10:00 - 10:10	Welcome and Introduction
    	Parallel Session 1a, Ludwig Erhard Room Memory Chair: Klaus Schmidt
    10:10 - 10:45	Associative Memory: Individual Beliefs and Market Outcomes FLORIAN ZIMMERMANN (briq Institute on Behavior & Inequality)
    10:45 - 11:20	Stories, Statistics and Memory THOMAS GRAEBER (Harvard Business School)
    	Parallel Session 1b, Richard Musgrave Room Endogenous Preferences and Beliefs Chair: David Schindler
    10:10 - 10:45	Endogenous Risk Attitudes NICK NETZER (University of Zurich)
    10:45 - 11:20	The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression, Beliefs, and Economic Outcomes JONATHAN DE QUIDT (Stockholm University)
    11:20 - 11:35	Coffee Break
    	Parallel Session 2a, Ludwig Erhard Room Gender Economics Chair: Teodora Boneva
    11:35 - 12:10	Continuous Gender Identity and Economics Decision Making ROBERTO WEBER (University of Zurich)
    12:10 - 12:45	Gender Misperceptions around the World BERTIL TUNGODDEN (Norwegian School of Economics)
    	Parallel Session 2b, Richard Musgrave Room Governments and Biases Chair: Uwe Sunde
    11:35 - 12:10	State Ownership Biases Government Support KLAUS M. SCHMIDT (LMU Munich)
    12:10 - 12:45	Hindsight Bias and Trust in Government: Evidence from the United States HOLGER HERZ (University of Fribourg)
    12:45 - 13:45	Lunch
    	Session 3 – Plenary Session, Ludwig Erhard Room Award Candidates Chair: Jonathan de Quidt
    13:45 - 14:20	Shallow Meritocracy PETER ANDRE (briq - Institute on Behavior & Inequality)
    14:25 - 15:00	Selective Memory around Big Life Decisions MAXIMILIAN MÜLLER (briq - Institute on Behavior & Inequality)
    15:05 – 15:40	Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments JONAS RADBRUCH (IZA - Institute for Labor Economics)
    15:40 – 16:00	Coffee Break
    	Parallel Session 4a Ludwig Erhard Room Narratives Chair: Matthias Lang

    16:00 - 16:35	Narratives about Macroeconomy JOHANNES WOHLFART (CEBI)
    16:35 - 17:10	Narrative Persuasion KAI BARRON (WZB Berlin)
    	Parallel Session 4b, Richard Musgrave Room Field Evidence on Leadership and Fast Decision Making Chair: Holger Herz
    16:00 - 16:35	The Value of Leadership: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment DAVID SCHINDLER (Tilburg University)
    16:35 - 17:10	Speed, Quality, and the Optimal Timing of Complex Decisions: Field Evidence UWE SUNDE (LMU Munich)
    17:10 - 17:20	Coffee Break
    	Keynote Lecture I, Ludwig Erhard Room Chair: Armin Falk
    17:20 - 18:20	Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies STEFANIE STANTCHEVA (Harvard) Presentation held online
    19:30	Conference Dinner

• Saturday, 15 October 2022

  • 	Parallel Session 6a, Ludwig Erhard Room Behavioral Theory: Wishful Thinking Chair: Taisuke Imai
    09:15 - 09:50	Misinterpreting Yourself BOTOND KOSZEGI (Central European University) and Paul Heidhues
    09:50 - 10:25	Decision Theory and Stochastic Growth JAKUB STEINER (University of Zurich)
    	Parallel Session 6b, Richard Musgrave Room Moral Luck and Apologies Chair: Christopher Roth
    09:15 - 09:50	Moral Luck: Mechanisms, Robustness, and Prevalence DAVID HUFFMANN (University of Pittsburgh)
    09:50 - 10:25	I’m Sorry if You Are: The Risk of Apologizing First Shereen Chaudhry, VALERIA BURDEA (LMU Munich)
    10:25 - 10:45	Coffee Break
    	Parallel Session 7a, Ludwig Erhard Room Distributional Preferences Chair: Bertil Tungodden
    10:45 - 11:20	Meta-Analysis of Inequality Aversion Estimates SALVATORE NUNNARI (Bocconi University)
    11:20 - 11:55	The Fundamental Properties, the Stability and the Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences ERNST FEHR (University of Zurich)
    	Parallel Session 7b, Richard Musgrave Room Incentives and Misperceptions Chair: Nick Netzer
    10:45 - 11:20	Do Financial Incentives have Negative Unintended Consequences? Evidence from Payments for Vaccinations FLORIAN SCHNEIDER (University of Zurich)
    11:20 - 11:55	Correcting Consumer Misperceptions about the Impact of CO2 Emissions TAISUKE IMAI (LMU Munich)
    11:55 - 12:05	Short Break
    	Parallel Session 8a, Ludwig Erhard Room Fighting Climate Change Chair: Matthias Sutter
    12:05 - 12:40	Global Evidence on the Willingness to Fight Climate Change ARMIN FALK (briq Institute on Behavior & Inequality)
    	Parallel Session 8b, Richard Musgrave Room Polarization Chair: Benjamin Enke
    12:05 - 12:40	Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences EUGEN DIMANT (University of Pennsylvania) - online
    12:40 - 13:40	Lunch
    	Parallel Session 9a, Ludwig Erhard Room Universalism and Homophily Chair: Florian Zimmermann
    13:40 - 14:15	Universalism: Global Evidence BENJAMIN ENKE (Harvard University)

    14:15 - 14:50	Homophily and Transmission of Behavioral Traits in Networks MATTHIAS SUTTER (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
    	Parallel Session 9b, Richard Musgrave Room Labor Supply Chair: Kai Barron
    13:40 - 14:15	Maternal Labor Supply: Perceived Returns, Constraints, and Social Norms TEODORA BONEVA (University of Bonn)
    14:15 - 14:50	Worker Beliefs about Outside Options CHRISTOPHER ROTH (University of Warwick)
    14:50 - 15:10	Coffee Break
    	Keynote Lecture II, Ludwig Erhard Room Chair: Ernst Fehr
    15:10 - 16:10	Complexity and Economic Behavior RYAN OPREA (UCSB)
    	End of Conference