Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory

Stony Brook, NY, July 20-22, 2009

Schedule of Talks

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Monday, July 20

9:15 - 10:00

David Laibson  (Harvard University)
Heuristic Forecasting: An Asset Pricing Application

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:15

Peter Cramton  (University of Maryland)
Fear of Losing in Dynamic Auctions: An Experimental Study

11:15 - 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:30

Eyal Winter  (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Mental Equilibrium and Rational Emotions

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

 

Session A
Chair: David Cooper

Session B
Chair: Geir Asheim

14:00 - 14:30

David Gill  (University of Southampton)
Fairness and Desert in Tournaments  

Friederike Mengel  (Maastricht University)
Learning by (Limited) Forward Looking Players  

14:30 - 15:00

Juergen Bracht  (University of Aberdeen)
How to Place Trust Well: An Experimental Study in the Role of the Source of Information  

John Smith  (Rutgers-Camden)
Not So Cheap Talk: A Model of Advice with Communication Costs  

15:00 - 15:10

Coffee Break

15:10 - 15:40

Raphaėle PREGET  (INRA)
MULTI-UNIT AUCTIONS AND COMPETITION STRUCTURE  

Alexander Matros  (University of Pittsburgh)
Raising Revenue With Raffles: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment  

15:40 - 16:10

David Cooper  (Florida State University)
Credible Communication and Collusion  

Geir Asheim  (University of Oslo)
Procrastination, partial naivete, and behavioral welfare analysis  

 

Tuesday, July 21

9:15 - 10:00

Al Roth  (Harvard University)
Unraveling of Matching Markets: Some Experimental Evidence

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:15

Andrew Postlewaite  (University of Pennsylvania)
Effecting Cooperation

11:15 - 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:30

Robert John Aumann  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Rule Rationality versus Act Rationality

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

 

Session A
Chair: Myrna Wooders

Session B
Chair: Maya Bar- Hillel

14:00 - 14:30

Penelope Hernandez  (University of Valencia)
Free riding in Schelling models: Avoiding the cost of moving  

Amnon Rapoport  (University of Arizona)
Choice of Routes in Networks with Different Information Structures:  

14:30 - 15:00

Tatsuhiro Shichijo  (Osaka Prefecture University)
Evolution of Payoff-dependent Preferences  

David V. Budescu  (Fordham University)
Taking Wason to the market: Studies of the Wason selection task in competitive markets  

15:00 - 15:10

Coffee Break

15:10 - 15:40

 

Yaakov Kareev  (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Do the Weak Stand a Chance? Distribution of Resources in a Competitive Environment  

15:40 - 16:10

Myrna Wooders  (Vanderbilt University and University of Warwick)
Conformity and stereotyping in social groups  

Maya Bar-Hillel  (The Russell Sage Foundation)
Multiple Choice Tests As A Game Of Hide And Seek  

 

Wednesday, July 22

9:15 - 10:00

Guillaume Frechette  (New York University)
Bargaining and Reputation: Experimental Evidence on Bargaining in the Presence of Irrational Types

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

 

Session A
Chair: Joseph Tao-Yi Wang

Session B
Chair: John Wooders

10:30 - 11:00

David Ong  (University of California, Davis)
Sorting with Shame in the Laboratory  

Luciano Andreozzi  (Universitą di Trento)
Learning to be Fair  

11:00 - 11:30

Uri Weiss  (The Center for The Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University)
The Rationality of Irrationality  

Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky  (Paris School of Economics)
Games with Type Indeterminate Players  

11:30 - 12:00

Poster Session and Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:30

Joseph Tao-yi Wang  (National Taiwan University)
A Window of Cognition: Eyetracking the Reasoning Process in Spatial Beauty Contest Games  

John Wooders  (University of Arizona)
Does Experience Teach? Professionals and Minimax Play in the Lab  

 

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