“Coping with difficult decisions: An Experimental Economics perspective” in Dusseldorf

I'm arriving in Dusseldorf today, for a workshop marking the end of a years-long project originally organized by Reinhard Selten:

Closing workshop of the Academy Research Center

“Rationality in the Light of Experimental Economics”

Coping with difficult decisions: An Experimental Economics perspective

Part I: Mini-School on complex experiments

10:00 – 11:00    Introductory lecture on complex experiments

Sabine Pittnauer (Univ. Bonn): Procedural rationality in complex decision problems

11:00 – 12:00   Presentations by young researchers (Part I)

Sven Nolte (Finance Center Muenster): An Experimental Analysis of Annuity Aversion

David Schindler (Univ. Munich LMU): Risk, Time Pressure, & Selection Effects

Ori Plonsky (Technion): Reliance on small samples, the wavy recency effect and similarity-based learning

Annika Herr (Univ. Düsseldorf): Organ donation in the lab: Preferences and votes on the priority rule

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 13:30     Presentations by young researchers (Part II)

Josue Ortega (Univ. Glasgow): Rational Inattention in Online Dating

Katharina Momsen (Univ. Mannheim): Buying Goods of Unknown Value - An Experiment

Efrat Aharonov (Technion): On the imitation of mistakes

Volker Benndorf (Univ. Düsseldorf): Voluntary Disclosure of Information and Unraveling

13:30 – 15:00     Lunch research seminars

Group Prof. Ido Erev

Mira Fischer (Univ Köln): Investment in Learning and Beliefs about Knowledge and Talent: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Two Dimensions of Confidence

Stephan Germer (Univ. Hannover): tba

Claudia Möllers (Univ. Düsseldorf): tba

Anja Rey (Univ. Düsseldorf): Representing and Solving Hedonic Games with Ordinal Preferences and Thresholds

Rebecca Schmitt (TU Kaiserslautern): Bridging the Attitude-Preference-Gap: A Cognitive Approach To Preference Formation

Nadja Wolf (Univ. Hannover): Mental Accounting in Tax Evasion Decisions – An Experiment on Underreporting and Overdeducting

Group Prof. Uri Gneezy

Anna Brandt (Univ Bern):  Personality correlates of willingness to compete

Marianne Carson (Royal Veterinary College): Behavioural adaptations of poultry production stakeholders to disease outbreaks and different control policies in Bangladesh

Henning Cordes (Finance Center Muenster): Perceiving the Real Value: How Inflation Communication Affects the Attractiveness of Delayed Consumption

Judith Schneider (Finance Center Muenster): tba

Lisa Spantig (Univ. Munich LMU): High-Stakes Non-Monetary Decision under Risk

Valentin Wagner (Univ. Düsseldorf): Shying Away from Demanding Tasks? Experimental Evidence
on Gender Differences in Multiple-Choice Tests

15:00 – 16:00     Poster session

Part II: Plenary talks and panel discussion on coping with difficult decisions

16:00 – 16:15     Welcome address

16:15 – 17:00     Professor Uri Gneezy: Lying Costs and Incentives

17:00 – 17:45     Professor Ido Erev: On maximization, complexity, and the effect of economic incentives

17:45 – 18:15     Coffee break

18:15 – 19:00     Professor Alvin E. Roth: Repugnant transactions and forbidden markets

19:00 – 20:00     Panel discussion: “Coping with difficult decisions: What do we know about how difficult decisions are made and how they can be improved?”

                              Moderation by Professor Martin Weber

20:00                    Closing remarks and supper