ECONOMICS 218

Psychology and Economics Seminar
Fall 2006
Professor Stefano DellaVigna
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608-7 Evans Hall
Tuesday, 2-3:30 p.m.
Professor Matthew Rabin
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Announcement: The seminar will begin on Tuesday, September 5
September 5 Uri Simonsohn, University of Pennsylvania; Visiting UC Berkeley
"When it Happens to Someone You Know: Personal Experience, Information Weighting, and Social Preferences"
September 12 Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University
Revised, September 2006, "Coarse Thinking and Persuasion"
[Joint with Departmental Seminar and Institutions Seminar]

September 19 Devin Pope, UC Berkeley
"Reacting to Rankings: Evidence from `America's Best Hospitals and Colleges'"
September 26
Erik Eyster, London School of Economics; Visiting Berkeley
"Inferential Naivety in Games"
October 3 Nick Barberis, Yale University
"What Drives the Disposition Effect? An Analysis of a Long-standing Preference-based Explanation"
October 10
Georg Weizsacker, London School of Economics
October 17 Paige Skiba, UC Berkeley
"Measuring the Impact of Access to Credit: Evidence From Payday Loans"
October 24 Xavier Gabaix, MIT and Princeton Universities
"Financial Mistakes Over the Lifecycle"
November 2 *Note Change from Regular Day - Joint with Labor*
Nicola Persico, University of Pennsylvania
"Other-Regarding Behavior: Theories and Evidence from Vehicular Traffic"
November 7 Julian Jamison, University of Southern California
"To Deceive or Not to Deceive"
November 14 Canceled
November 21 Steve Tadelis, UC Berkeley
"The Power of Shame and the Rationality of Trust"
November 28 Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University
"The Endowment Effect in the Market for Autos"
December 5 Botond Koszegi, UC Berkeley
"Dynamic Reference-Dependent Preferences" (with Professor Matthew Rabin)


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