1st Durham - Newcastle Behavioural & Experimental Economics Mini-Workshop

1st Durham - Newcastle Behavioural & Experimental Economics Mini-Workshop

Programme

09:30 – 10:00    Registration and breakfast

10:00 – 11:00    Session 1:

• Diego Marino-Fages (Durham University): "Motivated Forecasts: Evidence from the Presidential Elections in Argentina"
• Morgan Beeson (Newcastle University): "Setting Optimal Diagnostic Thresholds: A Consumer-Choice Model and an Experimental Test" (with Jytte Nielsen)

11:00 – 11:30    Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30    Session 2:

• Till Weber (Newcastle University): "Cooperation and the Strength of Social Ties: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Real Groups" (with Simon Gaechter, Chris Starmer, Christian Thoeni, and Fabio Tufano)
• Aleksei Chernulich (Durham University): "Information Curse" (with Olivier Bochet, Jeremy Laurent-Lucchetti, and Justin Leroux)

12:45 – 14:15    Lunch