The National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) will hold a Workshop in Behavioural Economics at QUT, on Friday 10 February and Saturday 11 February, 2012. If any QUT research students are interested in attending, please contact the Administration Coordinator.

The workshop will be held in the Dennis Gibson Room, Z1064, Gardens Point Campus, QUT.

Workshop Convener

Dr Lionel Page, Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics, QUT
Professor Uwe Dulleck, Professor in Economics, QUT

Schedule

Date Topic
Friday
February 10

12:50 pm
Introductory remarks

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Individual Presentations I - Chair Benno Torgler

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm - Intergroup competition and the efficient provision of public goods – Robert Slonim (Univ. Sydney)
1.30 pm - 2.00 pm – Choice prediction competitions for social preferences: Likes and dislikes – Andreas Ortmann (UNSW)
2:00 pm - 2.30 pm – Social exclusion and coalition formation in a repeated dictator election game – Ben Greiner (UNSW)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Afternoon Tea

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Individual Presentations II - Chair Uwe Dulleck

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - – Linking risk preferences, personality traits, physiological states and the ability to decide in a dilemma – Jonas Fooken (QUT)
3.30 pm - 4:00 pm – Cognitive abilities and behaviour in strategic-form games – Ralph Bayer (Univ. Adelaide)
4:00 pm - 4.30 pm – Handing out guns at a knife-fight:  behavioral limitations to Subgame-Perfect Implementation – Tom Wilkening (Univ. Melbourne)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Round table: Methodological Challenges in Behavioural Economics (A. Ortmann, L. Page, T. Wilkening.)

6:15 pm
Opening of the Queensland Behavioural Economics Lab (QuBe)
7:00 pm
Workshop Dinner (Ship Inn)
Saturday
February 11

9:00 am - 10:30 am
Individual Presentations III - Chair Markus Schaffner

9:00 am – 9.30 am – Legalising bribe-giving: A powerful tool against harassment bribes? – Klaus Abbink (Monash)
9.30 am - 10:00 am – Dishonesty in Self-Reporting: An Experimental Study – Lana Friesen (UQ)
10:00 am - 10.30 am – Subjective beliefs about the income distribution and political position – Lionel Page (QUT)
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Morning Tea

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Individual Presentations IV - Chair Lionel Page

11:00 am – 11.30 am – Information quality and competition in common-value auctions – Paul Pezanis-Christou (UNSW & Univ. Strasbourg)
11.30 am - 12.00 pm – Directed search, coordination failure and seller profit: an experimental comparison of posted pricing with single and multiple prices – Nick Feltovich (Monash)
12:00 pm - 12.30 pm – The good, the bad and the naive – Uwe Dulleck (QUT)

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm
Round table: Directions for Behavioural and Experimental Research (R. Bayer, U. Dulleck, R. Slonim)
2:30 pm
Closing remarks

Enquiries and Registration

For further details please contact the NCER Administration Coordinator:

Angela Fletcher
Queensland University of Technology
Email: a.fletcher@qut.edu.au