Friday, April 25

SESSION ONE | 8:30-9:45 AM

Positive Economics I

• The Case for Mindless Economics - Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer
• The Case for Mindful Economics - Colin Camerer
• Mindless or Mindful Economics: A Methodological Evaluation - Dan Hausman

SESSION TWO | 9:45-11:00 AM

Positive Economics II

• Comments on Neuroeconomics - Ariel Rubinstein
• What's so Informative about Choice? - Andrew Schotter
• Researcher Incentives and Empirical Methods - Edward Glaeser

COFFEE | 11:00-11:30 PM

DISCUSSION | 11:30-12:30 PM

• Boyan Jovanovic, Robert Lucas Jr., and Debraj Ray

LUNCH | 12:30-2:00 PM

SESSION THREE | 2:00-3:15 PM

Normative Economics

• Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics - Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel
• Revealed Mistakes and Revealed Preferences - Botond Köszegi and Matthew Rabin
• The Economist as Therapist: Methodological Ramifications of “Light” Paternalism - George Loewenstein and Emily Haisley

COFFEE | 3:15-3:45 PM

DISCUSSION | 3:45-4:45 PM

• Ken Binmore, Eric Maskin, and David Pearce