Conference in Caltech

Caltech Mini-conference on Experimental Economics

November 7-8, 2014, Baxter Hall, Caltech
Organized by Marina Agranov and Leeat Yariv

Friday, November 7, 2014

9:00AM – 9:30AM
Check-in and Breakfast
9:30AM – 10:10AM
Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Presnted by: Guillaume Frechette (New York University)
Co-authors: Matthew Embrey and Sevgi Yuksel
10:10AM – 10:50AM
Dynamic Coalitions and Communication
Presented by: Salvatore Nunnari (Columbia University)
Co-authors: Dave Baron and Renee Bowen
10:50AM – 11:10AM
Coffee Break
11:10AM – 11:50PM
Money is not memory: an experiment
Presented by: G
abrielle Camera (Chapman University)
Co-authors: Maria Bigoni and Marco Casari
11:50AM – 12:30PM
Identity and the Escalation of Conflict
Presented by: Michael McBride (University of California – Irvine)
Co-authors: Michael Caldara, Matthew McCarter, and Roman Sherementa
12:30PM – 1:30PM
Lunch
1:30PM – 2:10PM
Dynamic Incentives and Markov Perfection: Putting the "Conditional" in
Cooperation
Presented by: Alistair Wilson (University of Pittsburgh)
Co-author: Emanuel Vespa
2:10PM – 2:30PM
Coffee Break
2:30PM – 3:10PM
Testing the Theory of Continuous Time Games
Presented by: Ryan Oprea (University of California – Santa Barbara)
Co-author: Evan Calford
3:10PM – 3:30PM
Coffee Break
3:30PM – 4:10PM
The Distributional Preferences of the Elite
Presented by: Shachar Kariv (University of California – Berkeley)
Co-author: Raymond Fisman, Pamela Jakiela, Daniel Markovits
4:10PM – 4:30PM
Coffee Break
4:30PM – 5:10PM
Measuring Ambiguity Aversion: Experimental Tests of Subjective Expected
Utility
Presented by: Charles Sprenger (University of California – San Diego)
Co-author: James Andreoni and Tobias Schmidt
6PM
Dinner and Magic

Saturday, November 8, 2014
9:00AM – 9:30AM
Breakfast
9:30AM – 10:10AM
Voting with Endogenous Information Acquisition: Theory and Evidence
Presented by: John Duffy (University of California – Irvine)
Co-author: Sourav Bhattacharya and Sun-Tak Kim
10:10AM – 10:50AM
Endogenous sample selection in common value environments: A
laboratory study
Presented by: Ignacio Esponda (Washington University)
Co-author: Emanuel Vespa
10:50AM – 11:20AM
Coffee Break
11:20AM – 12:10AM
Negative Childhood Experiences and Risk Aversion: Evidence from
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
Presented by: Marco Castillo (George Mason University)
12:10AM – 12:50PM
Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Career Choices
Presented by: Muriel Niederle (Stanford University)
Co-authors: Thomas Buser and Hessel Oosterbeek
12:50PM
Lunch and Farewells