Program

Thursday, October 18

13:00 – 13:30

Get together, Coffee

13:30 – 13:45

Opening address

Rupert Sausgruber

13:45 – 14:30

Title: Is Transparency to No Avail? Committee Decision-making,
Pre-meetings, and Credible Deals (paper)

Presenter: Otto Swank

Discussant: Rudolf Kerschbamer

14:30 – 15:15

Title: The Dynamics of Distributive Politics (paper)

Presenter: Tom Palfrey

Discussant: Otto Swank

Coffee break 15:15 – 15:45

15:45 – 16:30

Title: Encouraging Giving: Subsidies in the Field (paper)

Presenter: Catherine Eckel

Discussant: Olof Johansson Stenman

16:30 – 17:15

Title: Testing Consumer Theory in the Field:

Private Consumption versus Charitable Goods (paper)

Presenter: Steffen Huck

Discussant: Catherine Eckel

Coffee break: 17:15 – 17:30

17:30 – 18:15

Title: Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online
Communities:

A Field Experiment on MovieLens (paper)

Presenter: Yan Chen

Discussant: Steffen Huck

Apéritif

Dinner 19:15

(location Restaurant Sitzwohl)

Friday, October 19

09:00 – 09:45

Title: How Non-binding Agreements Resolve Social
Dilemmas (paper)

Presenter: Rupert Sausgruber

Discussant: Tom Palfrey

09:45 – 10:30

Title: The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited:

The Importance of Group Decision-Making (paper)

Presenter: Arthur Schram

Discussant: Matthias Sutter

Coffee break 10:30 – 11:00

11:00 – 11:45

Title:                 When the Joneses' Consumption Hurts:
                         Optimal Public Good Provision and Non-linear Income
                         Taxation (paper)

Presenter: Olof Johansson Stenman

Discussant: Arthur Schram

11:45 – 12:30

Title: Trust and Social Interaction (abstract)

Presenter: Michael Kosfeld

Discussant: Yan Chen

Lunch 12:30 – 14:00

14:00 – 14:45

Title: Social Incentives in the Workplace (paper)

Presenter: Iwan Barankay

Discussant: Thomas Dohmen

14:45 – 15:30

Title: Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive
Ability? (paper)

Presenter: Thomas Dohmen

Discussant: Tanya Rosenblat

Coffee break 15:30 – 16:00

16:00 – 16:45

Title: Gender Differences in Incorporating Performance
Feedback (paper)

Presenter: Tanya Rosenblat

Discussant: Iwan Barankay

Coffee break 16:45 – 17:00

17:00 – 18:00

Discussion: Establishing an Internet-based Platform for Experimental
Economics

Chair: Jean-Robert Tyran