Friday, January 3, 2014

Market design experiments today in Philadelphia


Jan 03, 2014 10:15 am, Philadelphia Marriott, Meeting Room 307 
Economic Science Association
Market Design Experiments (C9)
PresidingJACOB GOEREE (University of Zurich)
From Boston to Chinese Parallel to Deferred Acceptance: Theory and Experiments on a Family of School Choice Mechanisms
YAN CHEN (University of Michigan)
ONUR KESTEN (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Opt-In versus Mandated Choice for Deceased Organ Donation: An Experimental Study of Actual Organ Donation Decisions
ALVIN E. Roth (Stanford University)
JUDD KESSLER (University of Pennsylvania)
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Ascending Prices and Package Bidding: Further Experimental Analysis
JOHN H. KAGEL (Ohio State University)
YUANCHUAN LIEN (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
PAUL MILGROM (Stanford University)
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Spectrum Auction Design: Simple Auctions for Complex Sales
MARTIN BICHLER (Technical University Munich)
JACOB K. GOEREE (University of Zurich)
STEFAN MAYER (Technical University Munich)
PASHA SHABALIN (Technical University Munich)
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Discussants:
SCOTT DUKE KOMINERS (University of Chicago)
ERIC GLEN WEYL (University of Chicago)
CARY DECK (University of Arkansas)
TOM WILKENING (University of Melbourne)
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Later in the day there will be another experimental session sponsored by the ESA, and another tomorrow...:

Jan 03, 2014 2:30 pm, Philadelphia Marriott, Meeting Room 307
Economic Science Association
Experiments in Economic Development
Presiding: PAULINE GROSJEAN (University of New South Wales)

Institutional Quality, Culture, and Norms of Cooperation: Evidence from a Behavioral Field Experiment
PAULINE GROSJEAN (University of New South Wales)
ALESSANDRA CASSAR (University of San Francisco)
GIOVANNA D'ADDA (University of Birmingham)

Trust and Social Collateral: Empirical Evidence
TANYA S. ROSENBLAT (Iowa State University)
DEAN KARLAN (Yale University)
MARKUS M. MOBIUS (Iowa State University, NBER and Microsoft Research)
ADAM SZEIDL (Central European University)

Health Providers and Patients in Kenya: An Evaluation of Motivations, Interactions and Reports on Sub-Par Behaviors
DANILA SERRA (Southern Methodist University)
ISAAC MBITI (Southern Methodist University)
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Jan 04, 2014 8:00 am, Philadelphia Marriott, Meeting Room 307
Economic Science Association
Identifying Time Preferences from Lab and Field Data
Presiding: CHARLES SPRENGER (Stanford University)

A Perspective on Measuring Discounting and Present Bias
JAMES ANDREONI (University of California-San Diego)

Recent Developments in the Measurement of Time Preferences
GLENN W. HARRISON (Georgia State University)

Identifying Self Control in Field Data
SENDHIL MULLANAITHAN (Harvard University)
SUPREET KAUR (Columbia University)
MICHAEL KREMER (Harvard University)

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