Jean-Robert Tyran (U Copenhagen)
Rupert Sausgruber (U Innsbruck)
Second Workshop
Behavioral Public Economics
October 14 and 15, 2006
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together a small group of researchers to discuss recent and prospective developments in the field of behavioral public economics. We take a broad view of this emerging field and welcome theoretical, empirical and experimental approaches to analyze the effects of social preferences and bounded rationality on all issues in public economics.
The workshop will take place in the University of Copenhagen at Studiestræde 6, room 02-010 (second floor, on the left).
Program (download as pdf)
Saturday, October 14th
(click on the links to see the abstracts and papers)
13:00 – 13:30
Get together, Coffee
13:30 – 14:00
Opening address
Jean-Robert Tyran
Session 1: Field Experiments
14:00 – 14:45
Title: Active Decisions and Pro-social Behavior: A Field Experiment on Blood Donation ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Alois Stutzer
Discussant: Dean Karlan
14:45 – 15:30
Title: Field Experiments in Charitable Contribution: The Impact of Social Influence on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Rachel Croson
Discussant: Christina Fong
Coffee break 15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:45
Title: Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on a Nationally Representative Sample ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Christina Fong
Discussant: Rachel Croson
16:45 – 17:30
Title: Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Dean Karlan
Discussant: Alois Stutzer
Coffee break 17:30 – 17:45
17:45 – 18:30
Title: A Live Experiment on Approval Voting ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Jean-François Laslier
Discussant: Hans-Peter Grüner
Aperitif
19:30 Dinner (at Le Pavé, Gråbrødretorv 14)
Sunday, October 15th
Session 2: Voting and Endogenous Institutions
9:00 – 9:45
Title: Carrots, Sticks and Looking-Glasses: Redistribution And Monitoring in Public Goods Games ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Louis Putterman
Discussant: Matthias Sutter
9:45 – 10:30
Title: Choosing the Stick or the Carrot? – Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Matthias Sutter
Discussant: Louis Putterman
Coffee break 10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:45
Title: Democracy and the Disincentive Effect of Redistribution ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Rupert Sausgruber
Discussant: Jan Potters
Session 3: Name of session
11:45 – 12:30
Title: Technology Adoption Subsidies: An Experiment with Students and Managers ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Jan Potters
Discussant: Erik Ø. Sørensen
Lunch 12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:45
Title: Responsibility, Fairness and Institutions ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Erik Ø. Sørensen
Discussant: Dirk Engelmann
14:45 – 15:30
Title: Giving Little by Little: Dynamic Voluntary Contribution Games ABSTRACT PAPER
Presenter: Lise Vesterlund
Discussant: Louis Putterman
Coffee break 15:30 – 16:00
Plenary discussion
16:00 – 17:00
Chair: Jean-Robert Tyran
List of Participants
(* paper presenter, d discussant)
* Rupert Sausgruber, U Innsbruck
Jean-Robert Tyran, U Copenhagen
*d Christina Fong, Carnegie Mellon
*d Lise Vesterlund, U Pittsburgh
*d Dean Karlan, Yale U
*d Jan Potters, Tilburg U
*d Louis Putterman, Brown U
*d Rachel Croson, Wharton
*d Alois Stutzer, U Basel
* Jean-François Laslier, Polytechnique Paris
*d Erik Sørensen, U Mannheim
*d Matthias Sutter, U Cologne
d Hans-Peter Grüner, U Mannheim
d Dirk Engelmann, Royal Holloway, U London
Henrik J. Kleven, U Copenhagen
David Dreyer Lassen, U Copenhagen
Frederik Øvlisen, U Copenhagen
Jes Winther Hansen, U Copenhagen
Toke Fosgaard, U Copenhagen
Mads P. Harmsen, U Aarhus
Håkan
Holm, Lund U
Erik
Wengström, Lund U
Ola Andersson, Lund U
The first Workshop in Behavioral Public Economics was held in 2005