reading
experimental and behavioral
reading group
We meet weekly during the academic year to do close readings of important papers in experimental/behavioral/theory, present our own research and host brown bag seminars by visitors.
fall 2017
October 24: Revisiting Information Aggregation in Asset Markets: Reflective Learning & Market Efficiency by Corgnet, DeSantis and Porter.
October 10: Rational Expectations and the Aggregation of Diverse Information in Laboratory Security Markets, by Plott and Sunder.(see also this paper)
October 3: Learning, forecasting and optimization: An experimental study, by Bao, Duffy and Hommes. (see also this supplementary reading)
winter 2017
January 17: What you see is all there is, by Benjamin Enke.
January 24: Minimax regret and strategic uncertainty, by Ludovic Renou and Karl Schlag.
January 31: Continue discussion from last week.
February 7: The Bubble Game: An Experimental Study of Speculation by Sophie Moinas and Sebastien Pouget.
February 14: Contingent Preferences and the Sure-Thing Principle: Revisiting Classic Anomalies in the Laboratory by Ignacio Esponda and Emanuel Vespa.
February 21: Why Do People Violate No-Trade Theorems? A Diagnostic Test by Jacopo Magnani and Ryan Oprea.
March 7: You Owe Me, by Ulrike Malmendier and Klaus Schmidt
March 14: Managing Self-Confidence, by Markus Mobius, Muriel Niederle, Paul Niehaus and Tanya Rosenblat
March 21: Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms, by Shengwu Li
fall 2016
September 27: Endogenous Depth of Reasoning, by Larbi Alaoui and Antonio Penta
October 4: Ramon Cobo-Ryes presents.
October 11.: Patrick Holder presents.
October 18: Brianna Halladay presents.
October 25: Lucas Reddinger presents.
November 1: Claudia Zoller presents.
November 8: Luke Lindsay presents.
November 15: Natalia Jiminez presents.
November 29: Sevgi Yuksel presents.
spring 2016
May 23: Corey Lott presents.
May 16: Ted Bergstrom presents.
May 12 @ 3:30 p.m.: Guillaume Frechette (NYU) presents. (Note day of week and time change)
May 2: Sevgi Yuksel presents.
April 25: Alistair Wilson (Pitt) presents.
April 18: Christine Harbring presents.
April 11: Becky Wright presents.
winter 2016
January 18: An Endowment Effect for Risk: Experimental Tests of Stochastic Reference Points, by Charlie Sprenger [Presented by Patrick Holder]
January 25: Ryan Oprea presents work in progress.
February 1: Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium: A level-k analysis, by David Gill and Victoria Prowse.
February 8:
February 15: Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games, by Reidl, Rohde and Strobel.
February 22: Emanuel Vespa presents work in progress.
February 29: Patrick Holder presents work in progress.
March 7: Andreas Leibbrandt presents his research.
March 14: Daniel Fragiadakis presents his research.
fall 2015
October 1: Gergeley Hajdu presents his research.
October 8: Brianna Sheets presents her research.
October 22: The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets by W. Keith Chen. [Presentation by Zack Grossman]
October 29: Daniel Benjamin presenting The Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics at 4 p.m. in Psychology 1314.
November 5: Lucas Reddinger presents his research.
November 12: Patrick Holder presents his research.
November 19: Experimenting with Measurement Error: Techniques with Applications to the Caltech Cohort Study by Gillen, Snowberg and Yariv. [Presentation by Michael Cooper]
December 3: Huy Nguyen presents his research.
spring 2015
April 8: Greg Leo presents his research
April 15: Kuziemko, Buell, Reich and Norton "Last-Place Aversion: Evidence and Redistributive Implications" [Presented by Michael Cooper]
April 22 Georganas, Healy and Weber. "On the Persistence of Strategic Sophistication." [Presentation by Lizi Yu]
April 29: Iansa Ferreira presents her research
May 6: Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva. "How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments" [Presented by Lucas Reddinger]
May 13: King King Li, "Asymmetric memory recall of positive and negative events in social interactions." [Presentation by Charlotte Saucet]
May 20: Yoram Halevy, "Ellsberg Revisted: An Experimental Study" [Presentation by Patrick Holder]
May 27: Rachel Croson and Uri Gneezy, "Gender Differences in Preferences." [Presented by Brianna Sheets]
winter 2015
January 12: Banks, Olson and Porter "An experimental analysis of the bandit problem." Economic Theory, 1997.
January 26: Charness and Levin, "When Optimal Choices Feel Wrong." AER, 2005.
February 2: Heinemann, Nagel and Ockenfels, "The Theory of Global Games on Test: Experimental Analysis of Coordination Games with Public and Private Information." Econometrica, 2004.
March 2: Penelope Hernandez presents her research.
fall 2014
October 8: Dal Bo, Pedro "Cooperation under the Shadow of the Future: experimental evidence from infinitely repeated games," American Economic Review, 2005. [Presented by Emanuel Vespa]
October 15: Greg Leo Presents his research.
October 22: Guarnaschelli, McKelvey and Palfrey, "An Experimental Study of Jury Decision Rules" American Political Science Review, 2000.
October 29: Charness, Levine "The Origin of the Winner's Curse: A Laboratory Study," AEJ: Micro, 2009.
November 5: Iansa Melo Ferreira presents her research.
November 12: Ahrash Dianat (George Mason University) presents his research.
November 19: Brianna Sheets presents her research
December 3: Agne Kajackaite (Cologne) and Ann-Kathrin Koessler (Queensland)
December 10: Brianna Sheets and Tom Zimmerfaust present an experiment idea