EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS LUNCHTIME SEMINARS SPRING 2008

TIME and LOCATION: seminar starts at 12:30pm and takes place in room 517 (5th floor), 19 W 4th street.

Coordinator of the seminar is Professor Frechette.

• January 31: Ido Erev (Technion)
  "Learning and the Economics of Small Decisions", joint with Ernan Haruvy.

• February 14: Leeat Yariv (CalTech)
  "Welfare Reducing Polls?", joint with Jacob Goeree and Julian Romero.

• February 28: Sean Crockett (Baruch)
  "Exchange and Specialization as a Discovery Process", joint with Vernon Smith and Bart Wilson.

• March 13: Dale Stahl (University of Texas, Austin)
  "Learning Transference Between Dissimilar Symmetric Normal-Form Games", joint with Ernan Haruvy.

• April 3: Brit Grosskopf (Texas A&M University)
  "Is Reputation Good or Bad? An Experiment" , joint with Rajiv Sarin.

• April 17: Olivier Armantier (NY Fed, Université de Montréal)
  "Can Corruption be Studied in the Lab? Comparing a Field and a Lab Experiment"

• May 1: Glenn Harrison (University of Central Florida)
  "Eliciting Beliefs: Theory and Experiments", joint with Steffen Andersen, John Fountain & E. Elisabet Rutström

EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS LUNCHTIME SEMINARS FALL 2007

TIME and LOCATION: seminar starts at 12:30pm and takes place in room 517 (5th floor), 19 W 4th street.

Coordinator of the seminar is Professor Frechette.

• September 6: Yuval Rottenstreich (Stern School of Business, New York University)
  "The Power of Focal Points is Limited: Even Minor Payoff Asymmetry yields Massive Coordination Failures", joint with Vincent P. Crawford and Uri Gneezy.

• September 20: Tim Salmon (Florida State University)
  "Self-Selection and Market Power in Risk Sharing Contracts", joint with Kislaya Prasad.

• October 11: Marco Battaglini (Princeton University)
  "The Dynamics of Distributive Politics", joint with Thomas R. Palfrey.

• October 25: Charles Bellemare (Universite Laval)
  "Gift Giving and Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment", joint with Bruce Shearer.

• November 8: Charlie Holt (University of Virginia)
  "Hierarchical Package Bidding: A Paper and Pencil Combinatorial Auction", joint with Jacob Goeree.

• November 29: Charles Noussair (Tilburg University)
  The Impact of Simple Institutions in Experimental Economies with Poverty Traps , joint with C. Mó Capra, Tomomi Tanaka, Colin F. Camerer, Lauren Feiler,V Veronica Sovero

• December 6: Georg Weizsacker (LSE)
  "Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices", joint with Matthew Rabin.