IZA Workshop: Behavioral and Organizational Economics

Friday, May 25:

09:00	-	09:45		W. Bentley MacLeod (Princeton University*))
				"Can Contract Theory Explain Social Preferences?"
09:45	-	10:30		Etienne Wasmer (Sciences Po, Paris*))
				"The Economics of Prozac. (Do employees really gain from strong employment protection?)"
10:30	-	10:45		Coffee Break
10:45	-	11:30		Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne and IZA*)), Alwine Mohnen (University of Cologne), Kathrin Pokorny (University of Cologne)
				"Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams - Theory and Evidence"
11:30	-	12:15		Carmit Segal (University of Zurich*))
				"Motivation, Test Scores, and Economic Success"
12:15	-	13:15		Lunch
13:15	-	14:00		Thomas Dohmen (University of Bonn*)), Armin Falk (IZA and University of Bonn), David Huffman (IZA), Uwe Sunde (IZA)
				"Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?"
14:00	-	14:45		Daniel J. Benjamin (Cornell University*))
				"Is Gift-Exchange Efficient? The Rotten Firm Theorem"
14:45	-	15:00		Coffee Break
15:00	-	15:45		Charles Bellemare (Université Laval and IZA*)), Bruce S. Shearer (Laval University)
				"Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender: An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace"
15:45	-	16:30		Paul Heidhues (European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)*)), Botond Kőszegi (University of California, Berkeley)
				"Competition and Price Variation when Consumers are Loss Averse"
19:00				Dinner at the Restaurant 'La Cigale'

Saturday, May 26:

09:00	-	09:45		David B. Huffman (University of Pittsburgh and IZA*))
				"Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Expectations"
09:45	-	10:30		Ulrike Malmendier (University of California, Berkeley and IZA*)), Geoff Tate (UCLA), Jun Yan (AIG)
				"Corporate Financial Policies with Overconfident Managers"
10:30	-	10:45		Coffee Break
10:45	-	11:30		George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University*)), John Hamman (Carnegie Mellon Unversity), Roberto Weber (Carnegie Mellon University)
				"Self-Interest through Agency: An alternative rationale for the principal-agent relationship"
11:30	-	12:15		Jeffrey P. Carpenter (Middlebury College and IZA*)), Peter Matthews (Middlebury College), John Schirm (Google)
				"Does sabotage attenuate the incentive effect of tournaments? Evidence from a real effort experiment"
12:15	-	13:15		Lunch
13:15	-	14:00		Simon Gächter (University of Nottingham and IZA*)), Christian Thöni (University of St. Gallen)
				"Understanding Social Interaction in the Workplace - An Experimental Study"
14:00	-	14:45		Stefano DellaVigna (University of California, Berkeley*)), Gordon Dahl (UCSD)
				"Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?"
14:45	-	15:45		Poster Session: Steffen Altmann (IZA), Armin Falk (IZA and University of Bonn), Matthias Wibral (IZA) “Behavior in Multi-Stage Elimination Tournaments: an Experimental Investigation” Sebastian Goerg (University of Bonn), Gari Walkowitz (University of Bonn) “The Janus Face of Cooperation - An Intra- and Cross-Cultural Review” Andreas Nicklisch (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) “Inequity, Reciprocity, and Efficiency-Preferences in the Ultimatum-Revenge Game” Matthias Wibral (IZA), Johannes Abeler (IZA), Steffen Altmann (IZA), Sebastian Kube (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) “Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair” Daniel Wiesen (University of Bonn), Heike Hennig-Schmidt (University of Bonn), Reinhard Selten (University of Bonn) “Physicians' Provision Behavior under Different Payment Systems – An Experimental Investigation”
15:45	-	16:45		Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA*))
				"Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum"
19:00				Informal Dinner at the Restaurant 'Schänzchen'