Welcome to WEBEAS
Workshop of Experimental and Behavioral Economics of the Americas
This online workshop series is a joint effort of economics faculty at Carleton University (Canada), George Mason University (US), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México-ITAM (México), University of California Santa Cruz (US), Universidad del Pacífico (Perú) and Universidad del Rosario (Colombia).
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Organizing Committee
Radovan Vadovič (Carleton University, Canada)
Cesar Martinelli (George Mason University, US)
Andrei Gomberg (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México - ITAM, Mexico)
Kristian Lopez Vargas (University of California, Santa Cruz, US)
Francisco Galarza (Universidad del Pacífico, Perú)
Mariana Blanco and Stanislao Maldonado (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)
Upcoming Seminars
Tuesday February 07, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET (10 am PT)
Jose Guerra (Universidad de los Andes)
Title: "Anti-Social Norms" (joint with Leopoldo Fergusson and James Robinson).
Past Seminars
Tuesday December 13, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET (10 am PT)
Danila Serra (Texas A&M University)
Title: "Information, Beliefs and Activism: An Experiment" (joint with Farzana Afridi, Ahana Basistha, and Amrita Dhillon).
Tuesday November 29, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET (10 am PT)
Charles Noussair (University of Arizona)
Title: "Emotions and Markets: Cause or Effect?"
Tuesday November 15, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET (10 am PT)
Andrew Dustan (Vanderbilt University)
Title: "Reduction in Belief Elicitation" (joint work with Kristine Koutout and Greg Leo).
Tuesday October 4, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET (10:00 am PT)
Timothy Cason (Purdue University)
Title: "Contingent Reasoning and Dynamic Public Goods Provision” (joint work with Evan Calford)
Tuesday September 20 2022 at 1:00 pm ET (10:00 am PT)
Marina Agranov (California Institute of Technology)
Title: "Information Aggregation on Networks: an Experimental Study" (joint work with Ben Gillen and Dotan Persitz)
Tuesday August 31 at 1 pm EST (10 am California - 12 pm Bogota-Lima-Mexico D.F. - 1 pm DC)
Daniel Friedman (University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Essex)
Title:“Market mysteries, old, and new”
Tuesday September 14 at 1 pm EST (10 am California - 12 pm Bogota-Lima-Mexico D.F. - 1 pm DC)
Johanna Mollerstrom (George Mason University)
Title:"Your place in the world: Relative income and global inequality"
Tuesday September 28 at 1 pm EST (10 am California - 12 pm Bogota-Lima-Mexico D.F. - 1 pm DC)
Hernan Bejarano (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica)
Title:"When the rich do (not) trust the (newly) rich: Experimental evidence on the effects of positive random shocks in the trust game"
Tuesday October 12 at 1 pm EST (10 am California - 12 pm Bogota-Lima-Mexico D.F. - 1 pm DC)
Santiago Sautua (Universidad del Rosario)
Title:“Emotional influence on information processing in decisions under uncertainty”
Tuesday October 26 at 1 pm EST (10 am California - 12 pm Bogota-Lima-Mexico D.F. - 1 pm DC)
Agne Kajackaite (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
Title:“Breaking bad: Misfunctioning institutions erode good behavior”
Tuesday November 9 at 1 pm EST (10 am California - 12 pm Bogota-Lima-Mexico D.F. - 1 pm DC)
Yue Deng (George Mason University)
Title:“The Opioid Crisis and Secondary Markets: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment”
Tuesday November 23 at 1 pm EST (10 am California - 12 pm Bogota-Lima-Mexico D.F. - 1 pm DC)
Kristian López Vargas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Title:“Disentangling Risk Attitudes and Other-Regarding Preferences: Theory and Experiment” (Joint with Paul Feldman)
Tuesday December 7 at 1 pm EST (10 am California - 12 pm Bogota-Lima-Mexico D.F. - 1 pm DC)
Mariana Blanco (Universidad del Rosario)
Title:“How to make a criminal” (Joint with Dan Houser)
Tuesday January 18 2022 at 11:30 am EST (8:30 am PST; 11:30 am Bogota, Lima, 10:30 am Mexico D.F)
Mikhail Freer (University of Essex)
Title:“Collective Deliberation: Theory and Experiment” (jointly with Edgar Castro and César Martinelli)
Tuesday February 1 2022 at 11:30 am EST (8:30 am PST; 11:30 am Bogota, Lima, 10:30 am Mexico D.F)
Lucas A. Rentschler (Utah State University)
Title:“Economics of Policing Incentives and Criminal Justice”
Tuesday March 1 2022 at 11:30 am EST (8:30 am PST; 11:30 am Bogota, Lima, 10:30 am Mexico D.F)
John Wooders (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Title: “Expertise, Gender, and Equilibrium Play” (joint work with Romain Gauriot and Lionel Page).
Tuesday March 15 2022 at 11:30 am EST (8:30 am PST; 11:30 am Bogota, Lima, 10:30 am Mexico D.F)
Axel Ockenfels (University of Cologne, Germany)
Title: "Why is the soft reserve auction so popular?"
Tuesday March 29 2022 at 11:30 am ET (8:30 am PT)
Julia Seither (JILAEE & University of Rosario)
Title: "The Economics of Women’s Entrepreneurship" (joint work with Megan Lang)
Tuesday April 12 2022 at 11:30 am ET (8:30 am PT)
Paul Feldman (Johns Hopkins University)
Title: "A Certainty Effect for Preference Reversals Under Risk: Experiment and Theory" (joint work with Paul J. Ferraro)
Tuesday October 18, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET (10:00 am PT)
Cesar Martinelli (George Mason University)
Title: "Career Incentives and Corruption: A Lab Experiment” (joint work with Naila Esandi)
Tuesday November 1, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET (10 am PT)
Isabel Trevino (University of Californa, San Diego)
Title: “Uncovering Biases in Information Choice and its Use: The Role of Strategic Uncertainty” (joint work with Michal Szkup)
Contact
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