Seminar Series 2017-2024
15 October | Anastasia Leontiou | U Vienna | “Loss-leading in vertical markets: The role of consumers’ loss aversion” |
1 October | Flora Drucker | U Düsseldorf/DICE | “Difficult Merits” |
8 July | Konstantinos Ioannidis | University of Cambridge | "Heterogeneous Cognitive Effort Restores General Equilibrium when Goods are Indivisible: Theory and Experimental Test" |
25 June | Yunshen Yang | UNSW | “Forecasting Change Under Leptokurtic Noise: Evidence from a Controlled Lab Experiment” |
25 June | Elise Payzan-LeNestour | UNSW | “Forecasting Change Under Leptokurtic Noise: Evidence from a Controlled Lab Experiment” |
25 June | Alexander Usvitsky | HSE University | “Support Networks in Contests“ |
18 June | Morten Nyborg Støstad | NHH | “Comparing Universes of Redistributive Arguments” |
11 June | Ulrich Glogowsky | JKU Linz | “Racial Discrimination in Seeking Advice” |
21 Mai | Victor Gonzalez Jimenez | Erasmus University Rotterdam | “Consistency and structural properties of individual and group decisions”. |
16 April | Yilong Xu | Utrecht University | “Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions” |
2 April | Hande Erkut (2) | WZB | “Repugnant transactions: The role of agency and severe consequences“ |
2 April | Levent Neyse (1) | WZB | “Does Cognitive Reflection Relate to Preferences and Socio-Economic Outcomes?” |
5 March | Boris Maciejovsky | University of California | Too much feedback? The effects of relative performance information on task performance and task persistence” |
20 February | Peter Martinsson | University of Gothenburg | “The Impact of Suggested Donation and Social Information on Voluntary Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment” |
23 January (2) | Marie Claire Villeval | GATE, CNRS – U Lyon | “Selective Information Sharing and Group Delusion” |
23 January (1) | Michael Hilweg | U Mannheim | “Why don’t you deduct to donate more? Behavioral factors undermining tax-incentives for deduction” |
16 January (2) | Daniele Nosenzo | U Aarhus | “Social, Demographic, and Psychological Correlates of Lying Aversion” |
16 January (1) | Ryan Webb | U Toronto | “A Neuro-Autopilot Theory of Habit: Evidence from Canned Tuna” |
2023 Seminars
12 December | Loukas Balafoutas | U Exeter | “Artificial Intelligence and Debiasing in Hiring: Impact on Applicant Quality and Gender Diversity” |
5 December | Irenaeus Wolff | U Konstanz | “Rights, Duties, and Taboo: The Social Codex of Peer-Punishment” |
28 November | Johannes Hoelzemann | U Vienna | “Anticipated Regret” |
21 November | Tibor Neugebauer | U Luxemburg | “Does Wash Trading Impact Information Dissemination in Security Markets?” |
17 November | Ariel Rubinstein | NYU / Tel Aviv U | “People Aggregating Signals: An Experiment and a Short Story” |
7 November | Natalie Lee | U Amsterdam | “Over-spying under Strategic Risk” |
24 October 2023 | Frauke Stehr | U Vienna | “Dodging High Impact Behavior with Motivated Beliefs?” |
10 October 2023 | Christian Koch | U Vienna | "Overcoming negative ethnic sentiments: A narrative compassion intervention" |
3 October 2023 | Edika Quispe-Torreblanca | U Leeds | "Investor Logins and the Disposition Effect" |
July 4th, 2023 | Elise Payzan-LeNestour | UNSW Sydney | “Pavlovian ‘Sign-tracking’ Influences Repeated Risk-Taking in Humans” |
June 30th, 2023 | Evgenia Dechter | UNSW Sydney | “Automation Risk and Occupational Sorting” |
June 30th, 2023 | Gonzalo Castex | UNSW Sydney | “Job Displacement and Transferability of Human Capital” |
June 20th, 2023 | Zoe Rahwan | MPI Berlin | “Delegation of ethical tasks to AI” |
June 13th, 2023 | Arieda Muco | U Libre de Bruxelles | “The politician, the party, and the president: How do political scandals propagate across the party network?” |
June 6th, 2023 | Myrto Pantazi | U Libre de Bruxelles | “Too much belief or too much disbelief? Seeking the answer in a complex digital world” |
May 30th, 2023 | James Tremewan | IESEG | “Leadership and Cooperation in a Sequential Prisoners’ Dilemma” |
May, 23rd May | Ada Kovaliukaite | U Vienna | “An Experiment on Gender Representation in Majoritarian Bargaining” |
May 16th, 2023 | Kateřina Chadimová | Charles U | “Timing, Deterrence & Simplicity in Repetitive Nudges” |
May 10th, 2023 | Basit Zafar | U Michigan | “Assessing the Costs of Balancing College and Work Activities: The Gig Economy Meets Online Education” |
May 9th, 2023 | Paolo Crosetto | INRAE Grenoble | “External validity of risk elicitation: a meta-analysis and a new design” |
May 2nd, 2023 | Wolfgang Luhan | U Portsmouth | “Do as I Do: Paternalism and Preference Differences in Decision Making for Others” |
April 25th, 2023 | Eva Ranehill | U Gothenburg | “The Impact of Doctoral Studies on Mental Health Care Uptake” |
April 18th, 2023 | Tibor Neugebauer | U Luxemburg | “Does Wash Trading Impact Information Dissemination in Security Markets?” |
April 18th, 2023 | Stephanie Heger | U Bologna | “Eliciting Preferences for Risk and Altruism: Experimental Evidence” |
April 11th, 2023 | Felix Holzmeister | U Innsbruck | "Population, Sample, and Analytical Heterogeneity: Evidence and Implications" |
March 28th, 2023 | Yan Chen | U Michigan | “Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy” |
March 21st, 2023 | Florian Englmaier | LMU Munich | “The Value of Leadership: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment” |
March 14th, 2023 | Kathleen Ngangoué | UCLA | “The Resolution of Uncertainty in Value and Probability Domains” |
March 7th, 2023 | Lawrence Choo | Southwestern U Fin Econ | “Information diffusion and aggregation over separated markets: An experiment” |
January 24th, 2023 | Kiryl Khalmetski | U Bath | “Altruistic punishment as norm-signaling” |
January 17th, 2023 | Mackenzie Alston | U Illinois | “Does Black and Blue Matter? An Experimental Investigation of Race, Perceptions of Police, and Legal Compliance” |
January 10th, 2023 | Wladislaw Mill | U Mannheim | “LinkedOut? Measuring Discrimination in Job Network Formation” |
2022 Seminars
December 6th, 2022 | Anja Schöttner | Humboldt U | “Delegation of Job Design and the Value of Communication with Imperfect Performance Measurement” |
November 29th, 2022 | Emin Karagozoglu | Bilkent U | “Moral Preferences in Bargaining” |
November 22nd, 2022 | Marco Lambrecht | Hanken School of Economics & Helsinki GSE | “An experiment on robo-advising” |
October 25th, 2022 | Veronica Pizziol | IMT Lucca | "Contributing to the European public budget? An experimental comparison across countries" |
October 18th, 2022 | Melanie Koch | Austrian National Bank | “The Effect of Social Comparison on Debt Taking: Experimental Evidence” |
October 11th, 2022 | Anand Murugesan | Central European U | “Public goods, trust and tax compliance in the shadow of an empire” |
September 22nd, 2022 | Hong Il Yoo | Durham U | “Constant Discounting, Temporal Instability and Dynamic Inconsistency in Denmark: A Longitudinal Field Experiment” |
June 28th, 2022 | Anna Sandberg | Stockholm U | “Gender Homophily in Job Referrals: Evidence from a Field Study Among University Students” |
June 21st, 2022 | Andreas Nicklisch | CEPR, U Applied Sciences of the Grisons | “Socio-Economic Values of Syrian Refugees” |
June 14th, 2022 | Despoina Alempaki | U Warwick | “Deceptive Communication” |
June 8th, 2022 | Axel Ockenfels | U Cologne | “Why is the soft reserve auction so popular?” |
May 31st, 2022 | Giorgia Romagnoli | U Amsterdam | “Morals in multi-unit markets” |
May 24th, 2022 | Catherine Eckel | Texas A&M U | 3 pm online: “The Democratic Peace: An experimental test of a causal relation and of underlying mechanisms” |
May 17th, 2022 | Simeon Schudy | U Munich | online: “Leadership matters more than you think: On the (misperceived) determinants of team success in non-routine tasks” |
May 10th, 2022 | Jordi Brandts | Barcelona School of Economics | "Pictures are Worth Many Words: Effectiveness of Visual Communication in Dispelling the Rent–Control Misconception" |
May 3rd, 2022 | Kristof Madrasz | LSE | “Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion: Private Goods in Public Context” |
April 26th, 2022 | Julia Rose | Erasmus U | “Same same, not different: Client-Advisor Matching in the Finance Industry” |
April 19th, 2022 | Yan Xu | U Vienna | “Commitment and communication in Bayesian persuasion: theory and experiment.” |
April 5th, 2022 | Nickolas Gagnon | Aarhus U | online: “The Effect of Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply” |
March 29th, 2022 | Mats Köster | CEU | “Salient Cues and Complexity” |
February 8th, 2022 | Jakob Möller | WU Vienna | “Backlash against Women in Competition” |
February 1st, 2022 | Georg Lintner & Philipp Grünwald | WU Vienna | “Incentives, Framing, and Trust in AI: An experimental study” |
January 25th, 2022 | Christoph Huber | WU Vienna | “On Social Norms and Observability in (Dis)honest Behavior” |
2021 Seminars
December 21st, 2021 | Johannes Hoelzemann | U Toronto | “Magic Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Smartest One of All?” |
December 14th, 2021 | Thomas de Haan | U Bergen | “Fairness Preferences in the face of Limited Information: Are people Bayesian Meritocrats?” |
December 14th, 2021 | Simone Haeckl | U Stavanger | “Effects of Supportive Leadership Behaviors on Worker Satisfaction, Engagement and Performance: An Experimental Field Investigation” |
December 7th, 2021 | Peter Schwardmann | Carnegie Mellon U | "Learning about one's self" |
November 30th, 2021 | Gergely Hajdu | WU Vienna | "Image Concerns and Voting Order in Group Decisions" |
November 9th, 2021 | Marc Kaufmann | CEU | "Narrow Bracketing in Work Choices". |
November 2nd, 2021 | Jonathan Schulz | George Mason U | "The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation" |
October 19th, 2021 | Elena Cettolin | Tilburg U | "Goals for Development: Experimental Evidence from Cassava Processors in Ghana" |
October 12th, 2021 | Nadine Chlaß | U Jena | "Giving in Dictator Games - Experimenter demand effect or preference over the rules of the game?" |
October 5th, 2021 | Eugen Dimant | U Penn | "Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences" |
June 22nd, 2021 | Maria Kleshnina | Institute of Science and Technology Austria | “Categorical or flexible? Sustaining cooperation among unequals” |
June 15th, 2021 | Moritz Janas | University of Konstanz/ NYU Abu Dhabi | “Social Ties and Gender Differences in Preferences for Competition” |
June 8th, 2021 | Elaine Rhee | University of Arizona | “Is The Gender Difference in Competitive Behavior History Dependent?” |
June 1st, 2021 | Geoffrey Castillo | University of Vienna | “Measuring the importance of interpersonal similarity” |
May 25th, 2021 | Alexander K. Wagner | University of Vienna | “Ambiguous Promises” |
May 19th, 2021 | Lise Vesterlund | University of Pittsburgh | “Belief Elicitation: Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives” |
May 18th, 2021 | Klara Kinnl | WU Vienna | “Self-serving Beliefs About Others when Moral Situations Differ” |
May 11th, 2021 | Nikola Frollová | Prague University of Economics and Business | “A Qualitative Study of Perception of a Dishonesty Experiment” |
May 4th, 2021 | Dorothea Kübler | WZB Berlin | “Costly information acquisition in centralized matching markets” |
April 27th, 2021 | Boon Han Koh | U East Anglia | “Gender biases and performance evaluation: Do outcomes matter more than intentions?” |
April 20th, 2021 | Andrea Robbett | Middlebury College | “Polarization and Group Cooperation” |
April 13th, 2021 | Jana Cahlikova | MPI Tax Law and Public Finance | “Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating” |
March 23rd, 2021 | Christine Exley | Harvard Business School | “The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion” |
March 16th, 2021 | Joe Vecci | U Gothenburg | “Locus of Control, Economic Decision-Making and Aspirations: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India” |
March 9th, 2021 | Anya Samek | UCSD | “Impact of Consequence Information on Insurance Choice” |
March 2nd, 2021 | Jan Philipp Krügel | HSU Hamburg | “The Impact of Fake Reviews on Reputation Systems and Efficiency” |
February 9th, 2021 | Diya Abraham | WU Vienna | “Social comparisons and effort provision: The effect of being less trusted relative to one’s peers” |
February 2nd, 2021 | Paul J. Healy | Ohio State University | “Testing Elicitation Mechanisms Via Team Chat.” |
January 26th, 2021 | Jakob Möller | WU Vienna | “Participation in voluntary competitions and gender discrimination" |
January 19th, 2021 | Gergely Hajdu | WU Vienna | “Social Image in Joint Decisions” |
2020 Seminars
December 22nd, 2020 | Anna Schwarz | WU Vienna | “Just (bad) luck? - Gender differences in confidence and learning about ability” |
December 15th, 2020 | Angela Sutan | Burgundy School of Business | “Cognitive processes and substitutability vs. complementarity in beauty contest games: A story of 4 experiments.” |
December 1st, 2020 | Jason Aimone | Baylor University | “The Economics of the Innocence Problem: A Laboratory Study of the Causes and Consequences of False Convictions and Plea Bargains” |
November 24th, 2020 | Pol Campos-Mercade | University of Copenhagen | “Irrational Statistical Discrimination” |
November 17th, 2020 | Miloš Fišar | WU Vienna | “Media negativity bias and tax compliance: Experimental evidence” |
November 10th, 2020 | Lenka Fiala | Tilburg University | “Statistical Role Models” |
October 27th, 2020 | Arno Riedl | Maastricht University | “Fairness and Coordination: The Role of Fairness Ideals in Coordination Failure and Success" |
October 13th, 2020 | Nickolas Gagnon | WU Vienna | “The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply” |
September 15th, 2020 | Mehmet Yigit Gurdal | Bogazici University | “Action-assortative Matching and Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma” |
February 11th, 2020 | Rostislav Staněk | Masaryk University | “Adding fuel to the fire: An experiment on the role of provocation in conflict” |
January 21st, 2020 | Balázs Krusper | CEU | “How does choice affect beliefs?” |
2019 Seminars
December 17th, 2019 | Gergely Hajdu | WU Vienna | "Learning it now or learning it later: Impatience about uncertain outcomes" |
November 19th, 2019 | Benjamin Mandl | Stockholm School of Economics | "An Experiment in Motivated Recall - A Pre Analysis Plan" |
October 8th, 2019 | Georg Sator | University of Vienna | “Peer Effects and Social Closeness” |
September 17th, 2019 | Marco Faravelli | University of Queensland | “Conflict in the Pool” |
September 3rd, 2019 | Ralph-C Bayer | University of Adelaide | “On the credibility of punishment in repeated social dilemma games” |
August 28th, 2019 | Nicolas Klein | University of Montreal | "Bandits in the Lab” |
June 18th, 2019 | Michael Jetter | UWA | "Truth and absolution in Colombia: For FARC's sake” |
June 17th, 2019 | Ali Ozkes | WU Vienna | “Strategic environment, communication, cognitive skills, and cooperation” |
June 6th, 2019 | Timm Teubner | TU Berlin | “Rankings in Health Care Markets: Theory and Experimental Evidence” |
June 6th, 2019 | Christian Waibel | ETH Zurich | "Profile Photos, Avatars, and the Platform Economy” |
May 28th, 2019 | Adam Sanjurjo | University of Alicante | "A Bridge from Monty Hall to the Hot Hand: The Principle of Restricted Choice” |
May 13th, 2019 | Kerstin Grosch | Insitute for advanced studies | "Increasing children’s interest in STEM” |
May 7th, 2019 | John Antonakis | University of Lausanne | "Just Words? Just Speeches?” On the Economic Value of Charismatic Leadership” |
April 9th, 2019 | Stefan Trautmann | University of Heidelberg | "Does money make you mean?” |
April 2nd, 2019 | Lisa Bruttel | University of Potsdam | "The effect of a leniency rule on cartel formation and stability: experiments with open communication” |
March 5th, 2019 | Christine Grimm | WU Vienna | "Strategic Manipulation of Contribution Information in Public Good Games with Punishment” |
January 22nd, 2019 | Heike Hennig-Schmidt | University of Bonn | "Altruistic preferences in medicine: An experimental panel study“ |
January 15th, 2019 | Martin Fochmann | University of Cologne | “When happy people make society unhappy: How incidental emotions affect compliance behavior” |
January 8th, 2019 | Marianne Stephanides | WU Vienna | “How avatars affect trust and trustworthiness in online marketplaces” |
2018 Seminars
December 11th, 2018 | Stefan Lehner | WU Vienna | “Innovative pricing policies for commuting: a field experiment” |
December 4th, 2018 | Victor Gonzalez Jimenez | University of Vienna | “Contracting Probability Distortions” |
November 27th, 2018 | Christiane Schwieren | University of Heidelberg | “Social Norm Perception in Economic Laboratory Experiments: Inexperienced versus Experienced Participants” |
November 20th, 2018 | Simone Häckl | WU Vienna | “Conscientious over-placement versus biased self-perception” |
November 13th, 2018 | Raisa Sherif | Max-Planck-Institute | “Sanctioning, selection and pivotality - Theory and experimental results” |
November 6th, 2018 | Diya Elizabeth Abraham | Masaryk University | "The Effects of Feeling Trusted on Exploration" |
October 23rd, 2018 | Jelena Cerar | WU Vienna | "The effect of psychic distance on the internal capital allocation to subsidiaries’ proposals” |
October 9th, 2018 | Peter Werner | Maastricht University | "Wage negotiations and strategic responses to transparency” |
June 19th, 2018 | Stefan Palan | University of Graz | "Stronger together: Comparing aggregation mechanisms for obtaining optimal predictions” |
June 12th, 2018 | Martin Kocher | University of Vienna | "Cooperation in a company: a large-scale experiment” |
May 22nd, 2018 | László Csató | Corvinus University | "Strategy-proofness of sports rules” |
May 15th, 2018 | Gigi Foster | University of New South Wales | “The Role of Communication in Managing Multi-level Conflicts” |
May 15th, 2018 | Jingjing Zhang | University of Technology Sydney | “Is there a gender power paradox within the household? A replication and extension of Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan (2015) for the US and Australia" |
May 8th, 2018 | Wendelin Schnedler | Paderborn University | “Why letter writing leads to kindness: Regulating emotions or activating pro-social thinking?” |
April 24th, 2018 | Peter Katuščák | CERGE-EI | “How to Boost revenues in First-Price Auctions? The Magic of Disclosing Only Winning Bids from Past Auctions” |
April 10th, 2018 | Owen Powell | WU Vienna | “Designing and Running Economics Experiments with jtree” |
March 27th, 2018 | Attila Ambrus | Duke University | “Informal risk sharing with local information” |
March 20th, 2018 | Stéphane Luchini | Université Aix-Marseille | “Eyewitness Testimony under oath: An experimental investigation” |
March 13th, 2018 | James Tremewan | WU Vienna | “Communication, transparency, and endogenously conflicted advisers” |
February 13th, 2018 | Ondřej Krčál | Masaryk University | “The Effect of Housing Conditions on Preferences and Behavior: Lab-in-the-Field Experiments with Participants of a Randomized Controlled Trial” |
January 23rd, 2018 | Christine Grimm | WU Vienna | “Commitment in food choices” |
January 16th, 2018 | Marianne Stephanides | WU Vienna | “Communication and helping behavior: An experimental study” |
2017 Seminars
January 9th, 2017 | Stephan Lehner | WU Vienna | "Innovative pricing policies for urban traffic: a field experiment” |
December 12th, 2017 | Sara le Roux | Oxford Brookes Business School | "Climate Change Catastrophes and Insuring Decisions: A Study in the Presence of Ambiguity” |
December 5th, 2017 | Ann-Kathrin Koessler | University Osnabrück | "How to create commitment for pro-social behaviour?” |
November 28th, 2017 | Jana Freundt | University of Hamburg | "Corrupted Votes and Rule Compliance" |
November 21st, 2017 | Paul Pezanis-Christou | University of Adelaide | "A naive approach to bidding" |
November 15th, 2017 | Andrew Oswald | University of Warwick | "The Midlife Crisis, Suicide, and Social and Economic Policy" |
October 24th, 2017 | Manuel Schwaninger | University of Vienna | “Conditional Altruism in Bilateral Bargaining” |
October 17th, 2017 | Maleke Fourati | University of Geneva | “Are Muslim immigrants really different? Experimental evidence from the Lebanese Australian community” |
August 29th, 2017 | Juan Carlos Carbajal | University of New South Wales | "Policy Persistence and Economic Reform" |
July 11th, 2017 | Stephan Lehner | WU Vienna | Smart Parking and Road Pricing: A field experiment? |
June 14th, 2017 | Karl Schlag | University Vienna | “Mathematically Correct Tests for Comparing Variables” |
May 30th, 2017 | Alexander Usvitskiy | Florida State University | “State-contingent risk-taking in dynamic contests” |
May 19th, 2017 | Daniel Wiesen | University Cologne | “Performance pay and motivation crowding-out: Evidence from an experiment with general practitioners”. |
May 19th, 2017 | Daniel Wiesen | University Cologne | “Behavioral experiments in health” |
May 2nd, 2017 | Gigi Foster | University of New South Wales | “What Women Want (their men to do): Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households” |
April 4th, 2017 | Nemanja Antic | Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University | "Screening through coordination" |
March 28th, 2017 | Judd Kessler | The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania | "Thinking fast and slow: generosity over time" |
March 21st, 2017 | Lukas Wenner | University Cologne | "More Effort With Less Pay - On Information Avoidance, Belief Design and Performance" |
March 21st, 2017 | Martin Finkenzeller | WU Vienna | “The silence of the founders: What makes nascent entrepreneurs reveal or conceal their business idea” |
March 14th, 2017 | Stéphane Luchini | Greqam, Marseille, France | “Commitment to truth-telling and Trust” |
March 7th, 2017 | Owen Powell | WU Vienna | “Mispricing: experiments and theory” |
January 31st, 2017 | Marianne Stephanides | WU Vienna | “Apologies in economic decisions” |
January 24th, 2017 | Ondřej Krčál | Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic | "Killing two birds with one stone: Reducing fiscal and welfare loss of tax Evasion” |
January 17th, 2017 | Redzo Mujcic | WU Vienna | “A Natural Field Experiment on Discriminatory Gifts” |
2016 Seminars
December 6th, 2016 | Anita Zednik | WU Vienna | “The search for good music: preliminary results of latent class analyses of music listen and download choice” |
November 22nd, 2016 | Christine Grimm | WU Vienna | “Bargaining, Asymmetric Information and Strategic Communication” |
November 15th, 2016 | Markus Deimel | WU Vienna | “Investigating self-selection mechanisms induced by selective revealing” |
November 8th, 2016 | Ben Greiner | WU Vienna | “Democratic punishment in public good games with perfect and imperfect observability” |
October 25th, 2016 | Florian Spitzer | WU Vienna | “Product Testing in Markets for Experience Goods” |
October 11th, 2016 | Johannes Hölzemann | University of New South Wales | “Gender effects on eBay: 'How many cents on the dollar? Women and men in product markets” |
October 4th, 2016 | Redzo Mujcic | WU Vienna | “Team Gender Diversity in High-Stake Competitions” |
Institute for Markets and Strategy