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 (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)
Stanislao Maldonado (Universidad del Pacífico, Perú)
Upcoming Seminars
TBA
Past Seminars
2023
September 26th
John Duffy (University of California, Irvine)
Title: "Facing the Grim Truth: Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma Against Robot Opponents" (co-authored with Ed Hopkins and Tatiana Kornienko)
June 6th
Stephanie Szonszein (University of Berkeley)
Title: "Immigrant Personal Narratives Reduce Exclusionary Attitudes towards Immigration."
May 23rd
Hanna Fuhrman Riebel (IDOS, Germany)
Title: "Correcting Misperceptions About Trends and Norms to Address Weak Collective Action" (joint with Ben D'Exelle, Kristian Lopez-Vargas, Sebastian Tonke and Arjan Verschoor)
May 9th
Brit Grosskopf (University of Exeter)
Title: "Predictably competitive? What faces can tell us about competitive behavior" (joint with Loukas Balafoutas and Helena Fornwagner)
April 25th
Kathleen Ngangue (University of California, Los Angeles)
Title: "The Resolution of Uncertainty in the Values and Probability Domains" (joint with Eungik Lee and Andrew Schotter)
April 11th
Ricardo Perez Truglia (University of Berkeley)
Title: "Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending"
March 21st
Martin Dufwenberg (University of Arizona)
Title: "Threats" (joint work with Flora Li and Alec Smith)
March 7th
Maria Cubel (University of Bath)
Title: "Identity and Corruption: A Laboratory Experiment" (joint work with Nastasia Papadopoulou and Santiago Sanchez-Pages)
February 21st
Jean Paul Rabanal (University of Stavanger)
Title: "Trade, voting, and ESG policies: Theory and evidence" (joint work with Daniel Friedman, John Duffy and Olga Rudd)
February 7th
Jose Guerra (Universidad de los Andes)
Title: "Anti-social norms" (joint work with Leopoldo Fergusson and James Robinson)
2022
December 13th
Danila Serra (Texas A&M University)
Title: "Information, Beliefs and Activism: An Experiment" (joint with Farzana Afridi, Ahana Basistha, and Amrita Dhillon).
November 29th
Charles Noussair (University of Arizona)
Title: "Emotions and Markets: Cause or Effect?"
November 15th
Andrew Dustan (Vanderbilt University)
Title: "Reduction in Belief Elicitation" (joint work with Kristine Koutout and Greg Leo).
November 1st
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)
October 18th
Cesar Martinelli (George Mason University)
Title: "Career Incentives and Corruption: A Lab Experiment” (joint work with Naila Esandi)
October 4th
Timothy Cason (Purdue University)
Title: "Contingent Reasoning and Dynamic Public Goods Provision” (joint work with Evan Calford)
September 20th
Marina Agranov (California Institute of Technology)
Title: "Information Aggregation on Networks: an Experimental Study" (joint work with Ben Gillen and Dotan Persitz)
June 21st
Inácio Bo (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
Title: “Pick-an-object Mechanisms” (joint work with Rustam Hakimov)
June 7th
Joy Buchanan (Samford University)
Title: “Women Willing to Program”
May 24th
Tim Friehe (Southern Methodist University)
Title: “Keep Them Out of It! How Concerns for Others’ Privacy Influence the Willingness to Sell Personal Data” (joint work with Leonie Gerhards and Franziska Weber)
May 10th
Timothy Salmon (Southern Methodist University)
Title: “Is 'Real' Effort More Real?”
April 26th
Karen Ye (Queen's University)
Title: “Understanding peer effects in educational decisions: Theory and evidence from a field experiment”
April 12th
Paul Feldman (Johns Hopkins University)
Title: "A Certainty Effect for Preference Reversals Under Risk: Experiment and Theory" (joint work with Paul J. Ferraro)
March 29th
Julia Seither (JILAEE & University of Rosario)
Title: "The Economics of Women’s Entrepreneurship" (joint work with Megan Lang)
March 15th
Axel Ockenfels (University of Cologne, Germany)
Title: "Why is the soft reserve auction so popular?"
March 1st
John Wooders (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Title: “Expertise, Gender, and Equilibrium Play” (joint work with Romain Gauriot and Lionel Page).
February 1st
Lucas A. Rentschler (Utah State University)
Title:“Economics of Policing Incentives and Criminal Justice”
January 18th
Mikhail Freer (University of Essex)
Title:“Collective Deliberation: Theory and Experiment” (jointly with Edgar Castro and César Martinelli)
2021
December 7th
Mariana Blanco (Universidad del Rosario)
Title:“How to make a criminal” (Joint with Dan Houser)
November 23rd
Kristian López Vargas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Title:“Disentangling Risk Attitudes and Other-Regarding Preferences: Theory and Experiment” (Joint with Paul Feldman)
November 9th
Yue Deng (George Mason University)
Title:“The Opioid Crisis and Secondary Markets: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment”
October 26th
Agne Kajackaite (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
Title:“Breaking bad: Misfunctioning institutions erode good behavior”
October 12th
Santiago Sautua (Universidad del Rosario)
Title:“Emotional influence on information processing in decisions under uncertainty”
September 28th
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"
September 14th
Johanna Mollerstrom (George Mason University)
Title:"Your place in the world: Relative income and global inequality"
August 31st
Daniel Friedman (University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Essex)
Title:“Market mysteries, old, and new”
Contact
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