The Biological Basis of Economics

April 18-20, 2008

2270 Sauder Industries Room - Harbour Centre - Simon Fraser University
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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

FRIDAY APRIL 18

9:00-10:00am
Phil Reny, University of Chicago,  Testing Theories of Sex against the Observation that Sex is Biparental
(with Motty Perry and Arthur Robson)

10:00-10:15am BREAK

10:15-11:15am
V. Bhaskar, University College London, “Parental Choice and Gender Balance

11:15-11:30am  BREAK

11:30-12:30pm
Lena Edlund, Columbia University, “From Sex to Gender

12:30-2:00pm  LUNCH

2:00-3:00pm
Christoph Kuzmics, Northwestern University, “On the Evolutionary Foundations of Rational Choice” (with Olivier Gossner)

3:00-3:15pm  BREAK

3:15-4:15pm
Nick Netzer, Universität Zürich, “Evolution of Time Preference and Attitudes to Risk

4:15-4:30pm  BREAK

4:30-5:30pm
Larry Samuelson, Yale,The Evolution of Time Preference with Aggregate Uncertainty
(with Arthur Robson)


DRINKS, ETC, FOR PARTICIPANTS TBA


SATURDAY APRIL 19

10:00-11:00am
Balazs Szentes, University of Chicago, “An Evolutionary Approach Towards Time Preferences
(with Emil Iantchev and Arthur Robson)

11:00-11:15am  BREAK

11:15-12:15pm
Peter Sozou, London School of Economics, “The Evolution of Social Discounting”

12:15-2:00pm LUNCH

2:00-3:00pm
Andy Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania, Repeated Games and Limited Information Processing
(with Olivier Compte)

3:00-3:15pm BREAK

3:15-4:15pm
Jeff Ely, Northwestern University, “Kludged

4:15-4:30pm  BREAK

4:30-5:30pm
Florian Herold, Northwestern University, “Evolution of Preferences under Observability
(with Christoph Kuzmics)


WORKSHOP DINNER TBA (FOR PRESENTERS)


SUNDAY APRIL 20

9:00-10:00am
Ted Bergstrom, University of California at Santa Barbara, “Games Relatives Play”

10:00-10:15am BREAK

10:15-11:15am
Luis Rayo, University of Chicago, Status, Market Power, and Veblen Effects
(with Miguel Diaz and Haresh Sapra)