ECONOMICS 218

Psychology and Economics
Fall 2003
Professor Stefano Dellavigna
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Seminar Location: 608-7 Evans Hall
Schedule: Tuesday, 2:00-4:00 PM
                   
August 26 Shachar Kariv, UC Berkeley
  "The Advice Puzzle: An Experimental Study of Social Learning where Words Speak Louder than Action"
September 2 Stefano DellaVigna , UC Berkeley
  "Attention, Demographic Changes, and the Stock Market" (with Joshua Pollet)
September 12**
Joint with Labor
Hank Farber, Princeton University
"Is Tomorrow Another Day? The Labor Supply of New York City Cab Drivers"
September 16 Matthew Rabin, UC Berkeley
  "Piecemeal Preferences"
Handout
September 23 Gary Charness, UC Santa Barbara
  "Bayesian Updating vs. Reinforcement and Affect: A Laboratory Study"
September 30 Cancelled
 
October 7 Dan Ariely, MIT University
  "Decisions by Rules" (paper not available, yet)
October 14 Jim Andreoni, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  "Building Rational Cooperation (with L. Samuelson)"
October 22**
Joint with Department
Wed., 4:30-6PM
in 608-7 Evans Hall
George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University
"Affect in Economics: What Adam Smith Knew and Contemporary Economists are Beginning to Discover"

Related Papers:
October 28 James Choi, Harvard University
  "Consumption-Wealth Comovement of the Wrong Sign," and it is joint with David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian, and Andrew Metrick
November 4 John Morgan, UCB, Haas School of Business & Economics
  "A Test of the Revenue Equivalence Theorem using Field Experiments on eBay"
November 11 Veterans' Day Holiday
 
November 18 Roberto Weber, Carnegie Mellon
  "'Moral Wriggling' in Decisions Involving Fairness"
November 25 Ray Fisman, Columbia University
  Empirical Determinants of Mate Selection: Evidence from an Experimental Dating Market (no paper available)
December 2 John List, University of Maryland, College Park
  "THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF DISCRIMINATION IN THE MARKETPLACE: EVIDENCE FROM THE FIELD*"

 
** Note Change from Regular Day/Time/Location

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