2017 New England Experimental Economics Workshop May 23 - 24th, Middlebury's Bread Loaf Mountain Campus
Tuesday, May 23rd
Morning: Arrival
12 – 1pm: Lunch and Introductions
1 – 2:30pm: PUBLIC ECONOMICS Resolving Ambiguity as a Public Good: Experimental Evidence from Guyana, Kaywana Raeburn Partisan Bias and Expressive Voting, Andrea Robbett A Taste for Taxes: Minimizing Distortions Using Political Preferences, Emiliano Huet-Vaughn
2:30 – 3pm: Coffee Break
3 – 4:30pm: CONTESTS Pari-mutuel Lotteries for Charity, Jeff Carpenter Prize Allocation and Information Revelation in Two-Stage Contests: Theoretical and Experimental Evidence, Jiang Jiang The Determinants of Incentive Choice: Do Female Decision-makers Shy Away from Promoting Competition? Olga Shurchkov
4:30 – 5:10pm: STUDENT SESSION Who Scheduled the Meeting? Gender Biases in Group Initiatives, Alden Cowap Do Bilinguals Behave Differently Depending on Language? Mohamed Hussein
6:00pm: Dinner at American Flatbread, 137 Maple Street, Middlebury, VT 7:30 – 8pm: Return to Bread Loaf Inn
Wednesday, May 24th
8 – 9am: Breakfast
9 – 10:30am: COOPERATION & PREFERENCES Misfortune or Malice: Reacting to Known Unknowns, Nathan W. Chan Does How We Measure Altruism Matter? Playing Both Roles in Dictator Games, Wei Zhan Preference Discovery, Sarah Jacobson
10:30 – 11am: Coffee Break
11 – 12:30pm: MARKETS & INFORMATION On the Dynamics of Prices and Mark-ups, David Munro Do Uncertainty Traps Occur? Jean Paul Rabanal Heterogeneity, Information, and the Emergence of Central Authority, David Kingsley 12:30 – 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30 – 3pm: COMMON POOL RESOURCES A Dynamic Common Pool Resource Experiment, Alexander Smith Crossing the (Uncertain) Rubicon: Is Ambiguity Better than Risk in Threshold Common-Pool Resources? Abdul Haleem Kidwai Defending Public Goods and Common Pool Resources, Lawrence De Geest
3 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 – 5pm: POLICY Motivating Household Energy Conservation With Feedback and Social Nudges, John Spraggon Identity Priming When Behaviors are Risky: A Flu Vaccination Field Experiment, Irene Mussio Contrasting the Effects of Monetization of Use and Non-Use Value on Environmentally Relevant Behavior, Sandra Goff 5 – 5:15pm: Wrap up