Workshop on Behavioral Mechanism Design, financed by the ARC through a Discovery grant on Wicked Defaults (and how to overcome them)

There are four sessions of 90 minutes each with two speakers each. A typical talk should be about 30 minutes, with about 15 minutes left for discussion and/or questions. Questions during the presentation are ok but will cut into discussion time.


Program

Time

Description

8:30 - 8:45

Welcomes by 

8:45 - 10:15

One of the Discovery grant gang talking, Overview of progress on the ARC project

Andreas Grunewald (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management), The Double Dividend of Attention Releasing Policies

10:15 - 11:00

Coffee break and informal conversations over coffee and tea and light treats.

11:00 - 12:30

Priscilla Man (UQ), Obligation-free Quotes

Siqi Pan (University of Melbourne), Matching by Characteristics

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch (light) and informal conversations - somewhere on campus (tbd)

14:00 - 15:30

Sephora Mangin (ANU), Personalized Pricing and Competitive Dispersion

Yair Antler (Tel Aviv University), Competitive Markets with Imperfectly Discerning Consumers

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break and informal conversations over coffee and light treats

16:00 - 17:30

Mert Kimya (University of Sydney), Power, Status and the Stability of Hierarchies

Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv University) (online), News Media as Suppliers of Narratives (and Information)

17:30

Brief wrap-up and thank-yous.

17:45

Departure to dinner location (most likely RK San – exquisite Japanese in Surry Hills with something for everyone)

RK San can be safely reached via the light rail, and it is easy to go back from there by light rail to the AGSM accommodation.

18:15

Workshop dinner with speakers and us (maybe RA/TA - Cicy - who will be around all day to assist, lest she has an exam)


Registration

If you are interested in attending in person, please send an expression of interest to a.ortmann@unsw.edu.au at least ten days before the event, so that catering can be adjusted if need be. There is no charge for attending.


The Discovery grant gang

Andreas Ortmann, Dmitry Ryvkin, Jingjing Zhang, and Tom Wilkening