Economic Seminar Series 2012-13

Seminars take place on from 4:30 – 5:45 PM. Please note that days and locations vary. Although many occur on Tuesdays in the Economics/Poli Sci Conference Room (UNH 4110), a large number of seminars take place this year on other days and in other locations, including in ECC 1857, which is located in the northwest corner of the first floor of University Hall, and can be accessed via the entrance to the Crimson Lion.

For more information, contact Prof. James Konow at jkonow at lmu dot edu.

 

 

 

 

Date

Speaker(s)

Affiliation

Talk

Location

September 6

Iwan Barankay

 

Wharton

University of Pennsylvania

Rank Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Workplace Experiment  

UNH 4110

September 20

Ron Harstad

 

 

University of Missouri

Behavioral Efficiency: Definition, Methodology, Demonstrations  

McIntosh Center

 September 27

 

 Dan Haybron

 Saint Louis University

Normative Foundations for Well-Being Policy

McIntosh Center

October 23

David Ong

 

Peking University HSBC Business School

Tiger Women: An All-Pay Auction Experiment on Gender Signaling of Desire to Win  

 

 

ECC 1857

October 30

 

 

Christian Grose

USC

Shirking, Pivotality, and Representation: A Field Experiment of Legislator Voting

 

ECC 1857

 November 6

 

 

 Sovathana Sokhom

 CGU/LMU

How Does Intangible Human Capital Impact Economic Growth in Less Developed Count  

 ECC 1857

December 4

Isabelle Brocas

 USC

 A Neuroeconomic Theory of Self Control

ECC 1857

February 12

Gabriel Lenz

 

University of California, Berkeley

TBA

 

 

UNH 4110

February 19

Bradley Ruffle

 

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

First-Mover Advantage in Two Sided Competitions: An Experimental Comparison of Role Assigned Rules    

UNH 4110

February 25th

Kishore Gawande

 

 

The Bush School, Texas A&M

Can Public Goods Reduce Conflict: MGNREGS
and the Maoist Insurgency in India

UNH 4110

 March 19

 Ronald Rogowski

 UCLA

 Are Survey, Field, and Natural Experiments Really Experiments, and Should We Trust Their Results? 

ECC 1857

 April 16th

 Frederico Echenique

California Institute of Technology

 TBA

 UNH 4110

Links to past seminar series: [2005-06] [2006-07]  [2007-08] [2008-09] [2009-10] [2010-11] [2011-12]