Faculty and graduate students from the Economics departments at Indiana University and Purdue University gathered together on November 11, 2017, for the first annual Jordan-Wabash Conference on Experimental and Behavioral Economics. Daniela Puzzello, professor of Economics at IU, and Tim Cason, Distinguished professor of Economics at Purdue, organized this conference.
All presentations took place in Wylie Hall 329.
10:00-11:45
Jimmy Walker, “Provision of Environmental Public Goods: Unconditional and Conditional Donations from Outsiders” (30min)
Shuze Ding (grad student), “Legal Restrictions and International Currencies: An Experimental Approach” (22min)
Jose Nuno Ledesma (grad student), “Multi-product nonlinear pricing with quantity caps” (22min)
Volodymyr Lugovskyy/Daniela Puzzello, “On Cooperation in Finitely and Infinitely Repeated Social Dilemma Games” (30min)
11:45-12:30 Lunch
12:30-2:00
David Gill/Victoria Prowse, “Strategic complexity and the value of thinking” (45min)
Peter Wagner (grad student), “’I think that you think...’: An experimental analysis of level-k reasoning in repeated mixed strategy games” (45min)
2:00-2:30 Break
2:30-4:00
Evan Calford, “Polarization with endogenous network formation” (45min)
Collin Raymond, “Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers” (45min)
4:00-4:30 Break
4:30-6:00
Yaroslav Rosokha, “Motivating Innovation: The Effect of Loss Aversion on the Willingness to Persist” (45min)
Stanton Hudja (grad student), “Is Experimentation Invariant to Group Size? A Laboratory Analysis of Innovation Contests” (22min)
Jake Schild (grad student), “Inequality Aversion vs Altruism: Experimental Evidence” (22min)
6:30-8:00 Dinner (Samira)
The College of Arts