When it comes to choosing the right elementary school, a number of factors besides the school’s location can play a role, including how likely it is to even get a place in the chosen school. For this reason, many parents plan their registration strategically. What are the current system’s weaknesses, and what possible approaches could be taken to fix them? Nobel laureate Alvin E. Roth gives us an insight into the design of the computer algorithms used to distribute kids to schools fairly in many cities around the world.

Lecture:

Alvin E. Roth, Winner of the Nobel Prize 2012, Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Anita Zednik, Assistant Professor, Institute for Markets and Strategy, WU

Discussion:

Heinrich Himmer,Head of the Vienna Board of Education

Christiane Spiel, Professor of Educational Psychology and Evaluation, University of Vienna

Christoph Wiederkehr, Executive City Councillor for Education, Youth, Integration and Transparency

Anita Zednik, Assistant Professor, Institute for Markets and Strategy, WU

Moderation:

Ben Greiner, Professor of Empirical Business Research, WU

This workshop deals with the tension that arises when people have to cooperate in order to exploit others. Cooperation-based exploitation dynamics are observed when thieves work in teams, when ruling coalitions exclude others from resources, when rogue groups siphon off the wealth of developing countries, and when the reciprocal gift exchange behaviour of political elites re-directs the surplus of a developed nation into the hands of those elites. The workshop aims to illuminate many facets of such processes, including how such group members can trust each other while at the same time behaving in an untrustworthy way towards others; how exploitative coalitions form, and what affects their stability; and how a society can design institutions that discourage exploitative cooperation by subgroups while still encouraging socially beneficial cooperation across the society as a whole. It is envisioned that contributions to the workshop will be methodologically and conceptually diverse.

Organizers: Gigi Foster (UNSW), Paul Frijters (LSE), Ben Greiner (WU Vienna)

Location: WU Vienna Campus, Building LC, Club room

Schedule

Th, 17 May 2018

10:00am Opening remarks

10:15pm-11:10pm

Talk 1: Rebecca Morton (NYU NYC & Abu Dhabi)

"Runoff Elections in the Laboratory"

11:10pm-11:40pm Coffee break

11:40pm-12:35pm

Talk 2: Roel van Veldhuizen (WZB Berlin)

"Behavioral Drivers of Distorted Decisions"

12:35pm-02:00pm Lunch

02:00pm-02:55pm

Talk 3: Galina Zudenkova (U Mannheim)

"Party Discipline and Government Spending: Theory and Evidence"

02:55pm-03:25pm Coffee break

03:25pm-04:20pm

Talk 4: Cameron Murray (U Queensland)

"Challenges of identifying exploitative cooperation in the wild"

04:30pm-05:30pm

Talk 5: Klaus Abbink (Monash U)

"Enforcing self-segregation: Experimental evidence"

7:00pm Workshop dinner at Heuriger Sirbu

Fr, 18 May 2018

12:30pm-01:30pm Lunch

01:30pm-02:20pm

Quick talk session

Lisa Bruttel (U Potsdam)

"Cartel formation in experiments with and without human consumers”

Milos Fisar (Masaryk U Brno)

"The trade-off between wages and corruption in a bribery experiment"

Ondrej Krcal (Masaryk U Brno)

"Why do bystanders choose not to intervene to stop bullying? A laboratory experiment"

Nastassia Leszczynska (U Brussels)

"Fairness concerns and corrupt decisions: an experimental approach"

Julien Senn (U Zurich): "Corruption and cooperation"

03:20am-02:45am Coffee break

03:45am-03:35am

Talk 6: Michael Muthukrishna (LSE)

"Corruption, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Prosocial Institutions"

03:35pm-03:50pm Break

03:50pm-04:40pm

Talk 7: Joep Sonnemans (U Amsterdam, CREED)

"Joining a group or going solo"

05:00pm Drinks at Die Allee, Prater

We welcome you to join us at the Science Talk about "Evaluierungszwang und Rankingflut - Bewertungen im Fokus" on April 16th, 2018 at 7pm at the Aula der Wissenschaften at Wollzeile 27a in the 1st district. 

Please be aware that the talk will be in German.  

Please register here.

How sensitive do consumers react to a brand when the media reports negatively about their advertising? Which tax system would citizens choose if they could vote on it directly? In the future, WU researchers will investigate these and many other questions in the laboratory of the new Competence Center for Experimental Research, which will be opened at 5 pm next Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017. After introductory words from the Vicerector for Research Stefan Pichler and the presentation of the laboratory, guests can experience experimental research up close and try their hand at experiments. All WU members are very cordially invited!

The new "Competence Center for Experimental Research" as well as the new WULABS under the leadership of Ben Greiner, Bernadette Kamleitner and Rupert Sausgruber will unite the already existing equipment for experimental research at the WU and expand it with a new large research laboratory. The additional infrastructure is funded by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research within the framework of the Universities' Structural Program and operated by the WU Competence Center in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Studies.

This way, WU is strengthening its research infrastructure and content orientation in a particularly innovative area of ​​economic and business research. "In recent years, the method of experimental research has established itself in many areas of business administration and economics, and even in the legal sciences. At the WU Competence Center for Experimental Research, researchers from the fields of finance, management, marketing, strategy and innovation, economics and business informatics are working together to investigate key economic issues in an experimental way, "said Professor Ben Greiner in a press release on the occasion of the opening.

When: May 3rd, 2017, 5pm

Where: Campus WU, Building D2, Entrance D, Ground Floor

Please register by sending an email to andrea.pusch@wu.ac.at  and we are looking forward to meeting you.