ECONOMICS 218

Psychology and Economics Seminar
Spring 2005
Professor Stefano DellaVigna
E-mail:
608-7 Evans
Tuesday, 2-3:30 p.m.

* Note Change in Day, Location and Time

Announcement: The seminar will begin on February 8th
February 8 Alberto Bisin, New York University
Hyperbolic Discounting: An Experimental Analysis
February 15 Dan Benjamin, Harvard University
Does Cognitive Ability Reduce Psychological Bias?
February 22 Cancelled
March 1
Malcolm Baker, Harvard University
Corporate Financing Decision When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance
March 8 Uri Simonsohn, University of Pennsylvania
eBay's Happy Hour: Non-rational Herding in Online Auctions
March 15
Andy Schotter, New York University
Workaholics and Drop Outs in Optimal Organizations
March 22 No Meeting - Spring Break
March 29 David Laibson, Harvard University
Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards
April 5 Matthew Rabin, UC Berkeley
Reference-dependent Risk Preferences
April 12 David K. Levine, UC Los Angeles
A Dual Self Model of Impulse Control
April 19 Elisabeth Sadoulet, UC Berkeley
Decomposing the Behavioral Responses to the Flu Vaccine Shortage of 2004
April 26 Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
Cultural Biases in Economic Exchanges
May 3 Cancelled
May 10 No Meeting

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