Conference of the French Economic Association on Behavioral Economics and Experiments (Lyon, 23-25 May 2007)

Journée d'Economie Expérimentale

Wednesday 23th May

10:00 Welcome address

Wednesday

23th

May

TUTORIALS

Chair: Stéphane Robin

10:15-11:15 Maria Bigoni

Information and learning in oligopoly: An experiment

11:15-12:15 Antoine Nebout

Different strategies in the sequential decision problem: an experimental approach

12:15-13:15 Julie Rosaz

Biased information and motivation

13:15-14:30 LUNCH

14:30-15:30 Marie-Pierre Dargnies

Learning to be less miscalibrated

15:30-16:30 Thuriane Mahe

Social preferences and experimental auctions for ethical and eco-labelled food

16:30-17:00 COFFEE BREAK

LECTURE

17:00-18:00 Glenn W. Harrison

(University of Central Florida)

Behavioral econometrics with experimental data

18:00 INFORMAL RECEPTION

Thursday 24th May

9:30 Welcome address of the conference - Jean Pisani Ferry (Président de l'AFSE) and Olivier Faron (Directeur de l'ENS LSH)

9:45-10:45 Keynote speech 1 : Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota) : Praise of competition

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

Thursday

24th

May

11:15-13:15

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND EXPERIMENTS

COMPETITION

CHOOSING SEQUENTIALLY OR SIMULTANEOUSLY

MARKET AND BEHAVIORAL FINANCE

RISK AND EXPECTED UTILITY

TOURNAMENT AND PROMOTION

SOCIAL DILEMMA

Chair: Anne Rozan

Chair: Doris Weichselbaumer

Chair: Laurent Denant-Boemont

Chair: Jean-Paul Decamps

Chair: Philippe Delquie

Chair: Carsten Schmidt

Chair: Louis Lévy-Garboua

L’impact d’une structure de marché intermédiée sur les stratégies environnementales des firmes : une application au secteur alimentaire.

Nathalie Lameta

Competition when buyers’ and sellers’ evaluations are linearly related.

Nadine ChlaB and

Werner Güth

Price leadership and firm size asymmetry: an experimental analysis.

Shakun Datta and

Emmanuel Dechenaux

Best reply matching in an experience good model.

Gisèle Umbhauer

Is the veil of ignorance only a concept about risk? An experiment.

Hannah Hoerisch

Risk taking tournaments-theory and experimental evidence.

Petra Nieken

and Dirk Sliwska

Voting on a sharing norm in a dictator game.

Christoph Vanberg

The regulations of a common pool resource with heterogeneous agents: an experimental investigation.

Carine Sebi,

Stefan Ambec, Alexis

Garapin

and Laurent Muller

Behavioural effects of competition: The case of cheating.

Doris Weichselbaumer

Risk aversion and incoherence bias: Distortion between sequential and simultaneous responses.

Hela Maafi,

Laurent Denant-Boemont,

Louis Lévy-Garboua

and David Masclet

Coordination and learning in dynamic global games: experimental evidence.

Olga Shurchkov

Beyond multiplication: The priority heuristic.

Eduard Brandstätter

Relative evaluation schemes, tournaments and piece rate contracts: an experimental study.

Marina Agranov

and Chloe Tergiman

Divide et impera.

Pablo Branas-Garza

On the acceptability of the ambient tax mechanism: An experimental investigation.

Anthony Ziegelmeyer,

François Cochard

and Kene Boun My

Comparison between simultaneous and sequential sales schemes: From symmetric to asymmetric information setting.

Aleesha Mohamudally

and Paul Pezanis-Christou

“J”-shaped returns to timing advantage in access to information-experimental evidence and a tentative explanation.

Juergen Huber

Testing the predictions of decision theories in a natural experiment when half a million is at stake.

Pavlo Blavatskyy

and Ganna Pogrebna

Optimal group incentives with social preferences and self-selection.

Sabrina Teyssier

Cooperation in a prisoner’s dilemma game with a precedent of collective action.

Alexis Garapin,

Michel Hollard

and Daniel Llerena

Taxe ambiante : un outil adapté à la lutte contre les coulées de boue ? Une étude expérimentale.

Rémi Barbier,

François Cochard

and Anne Rozan

Herding and cascades in financial markets: an experiment.

Christophe Bisière,

Jean-Paul Décamps

and Stefano Lovo

A generic measure of risk with a behavioral foundation.

Philippe Delquié

and Alessandra Cillo

Imperfect monitoring and small prizes in team production.

Carsten Schmidt and

Maros Servatka

Hétérogénéité des agents et coopération dans un dilemme social : une étude expérimentale.

Marie-Laure Cabon-Dhersin

and Nathalie Etchart-Vincent

13:15-14:15 LUNCH

Thursday

24th

May

14:15-16:15

PREFERENCE ELICITATION AND CONSUMPTION

BOUNDED RATIONALITY

RISK AND TIME PREFERENCE 1

INSURANCE AND CORPORATE BEHAVIORAL FINANCE

EVOLUTION AND COOPERATION

PUNISHMENT

PROSPECT THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS

Chair: Bernard Ruffieux

Chair: Uri Weiss

Chair: Philippe De Donder

Chair: Arthur Schram

Chair: Dale Stahl

Chair: Marie-Claire Villeval

Chair: Glenn Harrison

Individual preference elicitation for health care: discrete choice experiments applied to the choice of hormone replacement therapy.

Florence Nguyen,

Nora Moumjid,

Alain Brémond and Marie-Odile Carrère

Financial incentives and cognitive abilities: Evidence from a forecasting task with varying cognitive load.

Ondrej Rydval

Risk and time preferences integrated.

Manel Baucells

and Franz Heukamp

Testing the “Lemons” model: An experimental market for insurance.

Dorra Riahi

and Louis Lévy-Garboua

Learning and coping in repeated collective-good games.

Kene Boun My

and Benoît Chalvignac

Framing and free-riding: Moral judgments, emotional responses and punishment in social dilemma games Michalis Drouvelis,

Robin Cubitt

and Simon Gaechter

Monitoring illegal activities with optimistic bias.

Nicolas Jacquemet,

Jean-Louis Rullière

and Isabelle Vialle

Sequential consumer model. Alfred Norman,

Katie Brehm,

Carolyn Hinchey, Samarth Kejriwal and Katherine Kuang

Experimental evidence of the emergence of aesthetic rules in pure coordination games. Federica Alberti

How to measure risk and time preferences of savers?

Luc Arrondel

and André Masson

Moral hazard and credit screening : An experimental approach.

C. Monica Capra,

Irene Comeig and

Matilde O. Fernandez

Système de réputation “directe” et relations de confiance-réciprocité dans la population. Dimitri Dubois

and Marc Willinger

Social ties and punishment in group lending, the experimental case.

Mohamed Walid Seddiki, Mohamed Ayedi

and Chokri Mamoghli

Choix individuel et décision fondée sur l’expérience : une étude expérimentale.

Olivier L’Haridon

and Corina Paraschiv

In small decision it is rational to act like bounded rational - an answer for rabin.

Uri Weiss

When does the future really start: Non-monotonic time preference. Kan Takeuchi

Screening by monitoring: An experimental study of the entrepreneurial finance relationship.

Jean-Louis Rullière

and Hind Sami

The evolution of cooperation in infinitely repeated games: Experimental evidence.

Guillaume Frechette

and Pedro Dal Bo

Why do small deterrent incentives encourage stealing? A neutrally framed experiment.

Christina Strassmair

and Hannah Hörisch

Money matters: an axiomatic exploration of the endowment effect, loss aversion and the preference reversal phenomenon.

Raphaël Giraud

Habit formation and labor supply.

Philippe De Donder,

Helmuth Cremer,

Pierre Pestieau

and Dario Maldonado

How individuals choose insurance: An experimental analysis.

Arthur Schram

and Joep Sonnemans

An experimental test of the efficacy of simple reputation mechanisms to solve social dilemmas.

Dale Stahl

The physionomics of tax evasion: Rational cheaters or emotional deciders.

Georgio Coricelli,

M. Joffily,

Claude Montmarquette

and Marie-Claire Villeval

Dynamic choice behavior in a natural experiment.

Steffen Andersen,

Glenn Harrison,

Morten Lau

and Elisabet Rutström

16:15-16:45 COFFEE BREAK

Thursday

24th

May

16:45-18:15

VOTING AND BELIEFS

AUCTION

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS AND EXPERIMENTS

AMBIGUITY AVERSION

COMMITMENT

PUBLIC GOODS

VOTING AND REDISTRIBUTION

Chair: Jean-François Laslier

Chair: Nadège Marchand

Chair: Alain Trannoy

Chair: Jean-Marc Tallon

Chair: Anders Poulsen

Chair: Joe Oppenheimer

Chair: Jean-Louis Rullière

Evaluating political decision makers: With the benefit of hindsight bias?

Florian Schuett and Alexander Klaus Wagner

Charity auctions for the happy few.

Olivier Bos

Social mobility and economic inequality: How school finance decentralization matters? Arnaud Bilek

A choice-based investigation of beliefs under ambiguity.

Aurélien Baillon

and Laure Cabantous

Are non-binding agreements pure cheap-talk?

Julian Rauchdobler,

Rupert Sausgruber,

Rudolf Kerschbamer

and Jean-Robert Tyran

Peer punishment: emotions or strategic reasoning?

Marco Casari

and Luigi Luini

Social identity and preferences over redistribution.

Moses Shayo

and Esteban F. Klor

Une expérience de vote sur un enjeu de société : réflexions sur la construction d’un protocole et sur les résultats des scrutins.

Eric Dubois

Signal transmission in repeated sealed-bid first price auction: an experimental investigation.

Stéphane Robin

and Vianney Dequiedt

Individual and couple decision behavior under risk: The power of ultimate control.

André de Palma,

Nathalie Picard

and Anthony Ziegelmeyer

Measuring ambiguity attitudes: A field experiment among small-scale stock investors in China.

Bei Zhang

and Elizabeth Potamites

Do binding agreements solve the social dilemma?

Emmanuel Sol,

Sylvie Thoron

and Marc Willinger

Group competition and punishment in a public goods game.

Eva Van Den Broek,

Arno Riedl,

Martijn Egas

and Laurens Gomes

Voting for redistribution under responsibility-sensitive altruism.

Marie-Anne Valfort

and Roland Iwan Luttens

One round and two round election: An experimental study.

Jean-François Laslier

Reserve prices in online auctions.

Nadège Marchand,

Susana Cabrera Yeto and Rosario Gomez

Measuring the effects of parental food control on childhood obesity: An experimental economics approach

Mariah Tanner Ehmke,

Kari Morgan,

Enette Larson-Meyer,

Christiane Schroeter

and Nicole Ballanger

Choice under imprecise information: Experimental evidence.

Michèle Cohen,

Jean-Marc Tallon and Jean-Christophe Vergnaud

Learning to make strategic moves: Experimental evidence on strategic information avoidance in bargaining games.

Anders Poulsen

An analysis of context-dependent preferences in voluntary contribution games with agent-based modeling. Stephen Wendel

and Joe Oppenheimer

19:00 - Conference Dinner at the City Hall of Lyon

Friday 25th May

9:00-10:00 : Keynote speech 2 : Robert Slonim (Case Western Reserve University) Designing incentives using laboratory and field experiments: a focus on education

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

Friday

25th

May

10:30-12:30

TEAM

BELIEF AND DECISION

TIME CONSISTENCY

GROUPS AND NETWORKS

RECIPROCITY

RISK ATTITUDE

EMOTIONS AND NEURO-ECONOMICS

Chair: Guillaume Frechette

Chair: Hakan Holm

Chair: Pierre Malgrange

Chair: Daniel Zizzo

Chair: Luis Santos-Pinto

Chair: Christophe Bisière

Chair: Giorgio Coricelli

Relations sociales dans l’entreprise, niveau d’effort des employés, niveau des salaraires et performance économique.

Meriem Bouamoud,

Marc-Arthur Diaye and

Emmanuelle Walkowiak

Dynamic model of decision-making under cognitive dissonance and modularity of mind.

Emin Karagozoglu

Hyperbolic discounting may be time consistent.

Nicolas Drouhin

Social networks and trust. Daniela Di Cagno and

Emanuela Sciubba

Réciprocité indirecte et généralisée : une investigation expérimentale supplémentaire.

Aurélie Bonein

and Daniel Serra

Joker: Choice in a simple game with large stakes.

Egil Matsen

and Bjarne Strom

Schelling and the brain: Testing concepts of rationality using the neuroeconomics approach. Giorgio Coricelli

and Angela Ambrosino

Selfish bakers, caring nurses? A model of work motivation.

Kjell Arne Brekke

and Karine Nyborg

Tort reform and disputes under endogenous beliefs.

Claudia M. Landeo

Are impatient people irrational? Thomas Epper,

Helga Fehr

and Adrian Bruhin

Confiance et réciprocité dans des intéractions entre groupes d’agents : une étude expérimentale des effets de la communication au sein des groupes.

Jérémy Celse,

Dimitri Dubois

and Marc Willinger

Gift exchange, reciprocity and joint production: An Experimental Study.

Berly Martawardaya

On the linkage between financial risk tolerance and risk aversion: Evidence from a psychometrically-validated survey versus an online lottery choice experiment.

Robert Faff,

Daniel Mulino

and Daniel Chai

The role of affective reactions on investment selling prices.

Enrico Rubaltelli,

Giacomo Pasini,

Rino Rumiati,

Robert A. Olsen

and Paul Slovic

On the effect of different incentive environments on trust and trustworthiness. Christine Harbring

Belief manipulation and policy issues.

Raphaël Levy

Investment under uncertainty with time inconsistent preferences: Impact on learning process.

Caroline Orset

and Sophie Chemarin

The value of groups.

Shaun Hargreaves Heap and Daniel Zizzo

Collusion and reciprocity in infinitely repeated games.

Luis Santos-Pinto

Risk attitudes, randomization to treatment, and self-selection into experiments.

Glenn Harrison,

Morten Lau

and Lisa Rutstrom

Cooling-off in the ultimatum game.

Jörg Oechssler,

Andreas Roider

and Patrick Schmitz

On the benefits of control in teams.

Petra Hagemann

Collective trust behavior.

Hakan Holm

and Paul Nystedt

The art of not choosing: What explains the attractiveness of default options?

Federica Teppa

and Maarten van Rooij

Choice with regret and envy. Nadège Bault,

Giorgio Coricelli

and Aldo Rustichini

12:30-13:30 LUNCH

Friday

25th

May

13:30-15:00

PREFERENCE ELICITATION AND FOOD CONSUMPTION 1

BELIEFS CONSISTENCY

RISK AND TIME PREFERENCE 2

SELF IMAGE BIAS

INCENTIVE AND PRO-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

PUBLIC GOODS

Chair: Céline Jullien

Chair: Nathan Berg

Chair: Claude Montmarquette

Chair: Chair: Sandra Ludwig

Chair: Dan Ariely

Chair: David Masclet

Preference reversals and willingness to pay-willingness to accept disparity in the case of consumption goods.

Serge Blondel,

And Mahsa Javaheri

Expectations and beliefs in the italian game show “Deal or no deal”. Fabrizio Botti,

Anna Conte,

Daniela T. di Cagno, Carlo D’Ippoliti

and Peter G. Moffatt

I can’t wait! An experiment on risk, timing of resolution and anticipatory emotions.

Michal Krawczyk,

Astrid Hopfensitz

and Frans Van Winden

Trigger-happy confidence. Grzegorz Mardyla

Is beauty only skin-deep? Evidence from a TV game show. Michele Belot,

V. Bhaskar

and Jeroen Van De Ven

Bidding for the public good: An experiment.

Walid Hichri

and Pavel Diev

Food decision, information and personality.

Pierre Combris,

Sylvie Issanchou

and Youenn Lohéac

On return-prediction and technical investment - experimental examination.

Doron Sonsino

and Tal Shavit

A theory of satisfaction with empirical and experimental evidences.

Louis Lévy-Garboua

and Claude Montmarquette

Team formation, overconfidence, leadership and work rewards: From a theoretical behavioural model to experiments.

Brice Cognet

and Angela Sutan

Power and social preferences: the role of hierarchy in promoting selfishness.

Luigi Bosco

Voluntary contribution to the provision of public goods: A metaeconomic approach. Hicham El Moussaoui

Willingness to pay for functional foods: an experimental approach. Céline Jullien,

Maurice Doyon

and JoAnne Labrecque

Empirical links between logical consistency and accuracy of beliefs: A survey of AEA attendees.

Nathan Berg

My and your bias - What do you know about them?

Sandra Ludwig

and Julia Nafziger

Incentives and the signal of behaving pro-socially: Evidence from field and lab experiments.

Dan Ariely,

Anat Bracha

and Stephan Meier

Creating vs maintaining threshold public goods in conservation contracts. Douadia Bougherara,

Laurent Denant-Boèmont

and David Masclet

15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK

Friday

25^th

May

15:30-17:00

FRAUD AND CRIME

PREFERENCE ELICITATION AND CONSUMPTION 2

SOCIAL PREFERENCES

GAME THEORY

SOCIAL EXTERNALITIES

Chair: François Pannequin

Chair: Marie-Odile Carrère

Chair: Daniel Serra

Chair: Jonathan Leland

Chair: Marc Willinger

Fighting income tax evasion with positive rewards.

Cécile Bazart

and Michael Pickhardt

Consumer preferences for milk: An experimental study.

Laure Saulais

Gender effect pairing effect in a centipede game. An experimental test.

Gianna Lotito

and Anna Maffioletti

Psycho-social equilibria: Theory and applications.

Patricio Dalton

and Sayantan Ghosal

Enthusiasm of the few and entrapping bandwagons in groups with peer effects: An experimental study.

Yves Breitmoser,

Jonathan Tan

and Daniel Zizzo

Bribes and the intrinsic motivation. Are they compatible?

Maxim Frolov

An assessment of the ability of contingent valuation (CV) to elicit patients’ preferences for the organization of home care: The case of blood transfusion (BT).

Raphaël Remmonay,

Magali Morelle,

Yves Devaux

and Marie-Odile Carrère

Status, ethnicity, and wealth in Vietnam: Evidence from experimental games.

Tomomi Tanaka,

Colin Camerer

and Quang Nguyen

Behavioral equilibrium.

Fabrice Le Lec

Social learning: Imitation, information, and network externalities.

Julian Jamison,

David Owens

and Glenn Woroch

Insurance fraud and audit, an experimental approach. Sameh Borgi Zouari

and François Pannequin

Social inequality factors in the contexts of education and health: A european comparison based on an experimental questionnaire survey.

Romina Boarini,

Geert Demuijnck,

Christine Le Clainche

and Jérôme Wittwer

Equilibrium selection, similarity judgments and the “nothing to gain/nothing to lose” effect.

Jonathan Leland

Executing complex cognitive tasks: Prizes vs markets. Debrah Meloso,

Peter Bossaerts

and Jernej Copic