The Biological Basis of Behavioral Economics

May 14 - 16, 2010

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

9:30-10:30
Larry Samuelson, Yale
"The Evolutionary Optimality of Decision and Experienced Utility"
(with Arthur Robson)

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-12:00
Ken Binmore, Bristol (Philosophy)
"Sexual Drift"
(with Larry Samuelson)

12:00-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-3:00
Timofiy Mylovanov, Penn State
"Fitness, Diversity, and Evolution of Preferences"
(with Kalyan Chatterjee)

3:00-3:30 COFFEE

3:30-4:30
Gabrielle Conti, Chicago
"Early Life and Later Health: New Evidence from Rhesus Monkeys"

4:45-5:45
Anna Dreber Almenberg, Stockholm (SIFR) and Harvard (Kennedy School)
"The Biological Determinants of Risk Preferences"

7:00 RECEPTION FOR PRESENTERS AT 1500 ALBERNI ST, APT 15A

SATURDAY MAY 15

9:00 COFFEE

9:30-10:30
Andy Postlewaite, Penn
"Mental Processes and Decision-Making"
(with Olivier Compte)

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-12:00
Jeff Ely, Northwestern
"Mnemonomics: Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Memory Kludge"

12:00-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-3:00
Eddie Dekel, Northwestern and Tel Aviv
"Costly Self Control and Random Self Indulgence"

3:00-3:30 COFFEE

3:30-4:30
Anat Bracha, FRB Boston
"Affective Decision Making: A Theory of Optimism Bias"

4:45-5:45
Andy Schotter, NYU
"Social Learning and Coordination Conventions in Intergenerational Games: An Experimental Study"

7:15 DINNER FOR PRESENTERS AT HAPA IZAKAYA

SUNDAY MAY 16

8:30 COFFEE

9:00-10:00
Keith Chen, Yale GSB
"Prospect-Theory and the Trading Behavior of Non-Human Primates"

10:00-10:30 COFFEE

10:30-11:30
Emir Kamenica, Chicago GSB
"Do Advertisements Impact the Physiological Efficacy of Branded Drugs?"