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International Workshop
on
Behavioural Game Theory and Experiments

Capua, 12-13 May 2006

PROGRAM

Session A1 - Social Choice

 Chair: Sam Bowles (Santa Fé Institute and Università di Siena)

Matthias Sutter* Stefan Haigner** and Martin G. Kocher*** (*University of Cologne, **University of Innsbruck, ***University of Amsterdam)

“Choosing the stick or the carrot? – Endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations”

            Nikos Nikiforakis (Royal Holloway, University of London)

“Punishment and Counter-Punishment in Public Good Games: Can We Really Govern Ourselves?”

Luca Corazzini * and Ben Greiner** (*University of East Anglia and Università Bocconi. **University of Cologne)

“Herding and Social Preferences”

Jim Engle-Warnick * and Andreas Leibbrandt** (*McGill University, **University of Zurich)

“Who Gets the Last Word? An Experimental Study of the Expression of Social Norms”

            Raul Lopez-Perez (Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, Zürich)

“Social Norm and Games: Comunication, Cooperation, Coordination and Punishment”

Session A2 - Equilibrium Selection and Coordination

  Chair: Andrew Schotter (Columbia Business School)

Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans and Elena Katok (*University of Illinois, **Penn State University)

“Regret and Feedback Information in First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions”           

            Andrea Gallice (European University Institute)

“Predicting One Shot Play in 2x2 Games using Beliefs based on Minimax Regret”

Mauro Caminati,* Alessandro Innocenti* and Roberto Ricciuti** (*Università di Siena **Università di Firenze)

“Drift effect with human and virtual players”

            Régis Deloche (Université de Franche-Comté)

            “Walras’ Correspondence as a natural test of Aumann’s conjecture”

            Pablo Fajfar (Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Abierta Interamericana)

“Information and competition in Cournot’s model: “evidence from the laboratory””

Session B1 – Trust and Reciprocity

 Chair: Alessandro Innocenti (Università di Siena)

            Maxim Frolov (Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, CNRS)

“The experimental verification of the signal-based crowding-out effect”

Lorenzo Sacconi and Marco Faillo (Università di Trento)

“Conformity and Reciprocity in the 'Exclusion Game': An Experimental Investigation”

Massimiliano Landi and Domenico Colucci (Università di Firenze)

“Rational and boundedly rational behavior in sender-receiver games”

Vittorio Pelligra (Università di Cagliari)

“How to distinguish between trust and reciprocity”

Alessandro Innocenti* and Maria Grazia Pazienza** (*Università di Siena, **Università di Firenze)

“Altruism and Gender in the Trust Game”

Session B2 – Social Preferences and Public Goods

  Chair: Luigi Luini (Università di Siena)

Dirk Engelmann* and Veronika Grimm** (*Royal Holloway, University of London, **University of Cologne)

“Overcoming Incentive Constraints? The (In)-effectiveness of Social Interaction”

            Emrah Arbak and Marie-Claire Villeval  (GATE, CNRS – Université Lyon 2 and Ecole Normale Supérieure)

            “Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Efficiency”

            Antonio Cabrales* Raffaele Miniaci,** Marco Piovesan and Giovanni Ponti**** (*Universitat Pompeu Fabra, **Università di Padova, ***Università di Brescia, ****Universidad de Alicante and Università di Ferrara)

“Social Preferences and Contracts: An Experiment on Corporate Culture”

Alexander W. Cappelen*° Astri D. Hole,** Erik Ø. Sørensen,° and Bertil Tungodden***° (*The University of Oslo**Bergen University College,  *** Chr. Michelsen Institute, °Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration,)

“The pluralism of fairness ideals: An experimental approach”

Marco Casari* and Luigi Luini** (*Purdue University, **Università di Siena)

“Peer Punishment in Teams: Emotional or Strategic Choice?”

Session C1 – PREFERENCES AND INTERTEMPORAL CHOICE

Chair: Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans (University of Illinois)

Francesco Drago * and Dora Kadar** (*Università di Napoli, Parthenope and IZA, **Università di Siena)

“Rebate or bait? Evidence on time inconsistent consumer behavior”

Astrid Matthey (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin)

“Getting used to the Future: Reference Dependence and Anticipatory Utility”

Marco Casari (Purdue University)

“Pre-commitment and flexibility in a time decision experiment”

Anna Conte,*° Daniela Di Cagno° and John Hey**° (* Tor Vergata University and FAO of the UN., **University of York, °Luiss Guido Carli)

“Risk Aversion, Demographics and Unobserved Heterogeneity. Evidence from the Italian TV Show “Affari Tuoi””

Session C2 – Learning and information

Chair: Patrizia Sbriglia (Università di Napoli 2)

Andrea Morone (Max Planck Institute of Economics and Università di Bari)

       “Iterative naïve best reply vs. elimination of dominated strategy in a p-beauty contest”

Martin Kocher^*°, Matthias Sutter**° and Florian Wakolbinger° (**CREED, University of Amsterdam, **University of Cologne, °University of Innsbruck)

“Naïve advice and observational learning in experimental beauty-contest games”

 Giuseppe Attanasi* and Rosemarie Nagel** (*Bocconi University, **Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

 “Actions, Beliefs and Feelings: an experimental study on Psychological Game Theory”

            Patrizia Sbriglia (Università di Napoli 2)

“Revealing the depth of reasoning in p-beauty contest games”

Session D1 – Coodination and Cooperation

Chair:  Marco Casari (Purdue University)

Todd R. Kaplan* and Bradley J. Ruffle** (University of Exeter, **Ben-Gurion University)

“Which way to cooperate”

Hans-Ulrich Stark,*° Dirk Helbing,* Martin Schönhof,* and Janusz A. Hołyst** (*Dresden University of Technology, °ETH Zurich, **Warsaw University of Technology)

“Alternating cooperation strategies in a Route Choice game: Theory, experiments, and evidence of learning scenarios”

Michele Bernasconi* and Matteo Galizzi** (*Università dell’Insubria, **Università di Brescia)

“Coordination in Networks Formation: Experimental Evidence on Learning and Salience”

Antoine Terracol*° and Jonathan Vaksmann° (*Université Lille 3, °Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, CNRS)

“Dumbing down rational players: adaptive learning and teaching in an experimental game”

Session D2 – Norms And Policies

Chair: Francesco Farina (Università di Siena)

            Alessandro Marchesiani* and Pietro Senesi** (*University of Tor Vergata, **University of Naples “L’Orientale”)

“Search, bargaining and prices in an enlarged monetary union”

Stefan Kohler (European University Institute, Firenze)

“Inequality Aversion and Stochastic Decision-making after Land Reform: Experimental Evidence from Zimbabwean Villages”

 Topi Miettinen (University College London and Univeristy of Helsinki)

 “Promises and Conventions ­ A Theory of Pre-play Agreement”

Berly Martawardaya (Università di Siena)

“Social Distance, Moral Property Right and Value of Gratitude in Dictator Game”

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