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
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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
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5 – 5:15pm: Wrap up 


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