Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory

Stony Brook, NY, July 20-22, 2009

Schedule of Talks

Monday, July 20
9:15 - 10:00	David Laibson (Harvard University) Heuristic Forecasting: An Asset Pricing Application
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15	Peter Cramton (University of Maryland) Fear of Losing in Dynamic Auctions: An Experimental Study
11:15 - 11:45	Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:30	Eyal Winter (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Mental Equilibrium and Rational Emotions
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break
	Session A Chair: David Cooper	Session B Chair: Geir Asheim
14:00 - 14:30	David Gill (University of Southampton) Fairness and Desert in Tournaments	Friederike Mengel (Maastricht University) Learning by (Limited) Forward Looking Players
14:30 - 15:00	Juergen Bracht (University of Aberdeen) How to Place Trust Well: An Experimental Study in the Role of the Source of Information	John Smith (Rutgers-Camden) Not So Cheap Talk: A Model of Advice with Communication Costs
15:00 - 15:10	Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:40	Raphaële PREGET (INRA) MULTI-UNIT AUCTIONS AND COMPETITION STRUCTURE	Alexander Matros (University of Pittsburgh) Raising Revenue With Raffles: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
15:40 - 16:10	David Cooper (Florida State University) Credible Communication and Collusion	Geir Asheim (University of Oslo) Procrastination, partial naivete, and behavioral welfare analysis

Tuesday, July 21
9:15 - 10:00	Al Roth (Harvard University) Unraveling of Matching Markets: Some Experimental Evidence
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15	Andrew Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania) Effecting Cooperation
11:15 - 11:45	Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:30	Robert John Aumann (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Rule Rationality versus Act Rationality
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break
	Session A Chair: Myrna Wooders	Session B Chair: Maya Bar- Hillel
14:00 - 14:30	Penelope Hernandez (University of Valencia) Free riding in Schelling models: Avoiding the cost of moving	Amnon Rapoport (University of Arizona) Choice of Routes in Networks with Different Information Structures:
14:30 - 15:00	Tatsuhiro Shichijo (Osaka Prefecture University) Evolution of Payoff-dependent Preferences	David V. Budescu (Fordham University) Taking Wason to the market: Studies of the Wason selection task in competitive markets
15:00 - 15:10	Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:40		Yaakov Kareev (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Do the Weak Stand a Chance? Distribution of Resources in a Competitive Environment
15:40 - 16:10	Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt University and University of Warwick) Conformity and stereotyping in social groups	Maya Bar-Hillel (The Russell Sage Foundation) Multiple Choice Tests As A Game Of Hide And Seek

Wednesday, July 22
9:15 - 10:00	Guillaume Frechette (New York University) Bargaining and Reputation: Experimental Evidence on Bargaining in the Presence of Irrational Types
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
	Session A Chair: Joseph Tao-Yi Wang	Session B Chair: John Wooders
10:30 - 11:00	David Ong (University of California, Davis) Sorting with Shame in the Laboratory	Luciano Andreozzi (Università di Trento) Learning to be Fair
11:00 - 11:30	Uri Weiss (The Center for The Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University) The Rationality of Irrationality	Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky (Paris School of Economics) Games with Type Indeterminate Players
11:30 - 12:00	Poster Session and Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:30	Joseph Tao-yi Wang (National Taiwan University) A Window of Cognition: Eyetracking the Reasoning Process in Spatial Beauty Contest Games	John Wooders (University of Arizona) Does Experience Teach? Professionals and Minimax Play in the Lab

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