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Friday 17 - Saturday 18 October 2014
Organiser: Ran Spiegler
The conference will be held at the 30 Euston Square conference venue. It is enabled by an ERC grant on "bounded rationality and industrial organization"
| Day 1 - Friday 17 October | |
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09:30-10:00 |
Gathering |
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Session 1 (chair: Amelia Fletcher) |
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard) |
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10:30-11:00 |
Michael Grubb (Boston College) "Consumer Inattention and Bill Shock Regulation" |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
| Session 2 (chair: Ran Spiegler) | |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Amelia Fletcher (UEA) "Consumer Law: A Brief Primer" |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Peter Andrews (Financial Conduct Authority) "Using Behavioural Insights to Protect Financial Consumers in a Pro-Competitive Manner" |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
| Session 3 (chair: Ariel Porat) | |
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14:00-14:30 |
Joshua Schwarzstein (Dartmouth) "Reduced-Form Behavioural Public Economics" |
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14:30-15:00 |
Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv Univ. & UCL) "On the Equilibrium Effects of 'Nudging'" |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee break |
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Session 4 (chair: Mark Armstrong) |
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15:30-16:00 |
Ariel Porat (Tel Aviv Univ.) "Personalizing Default Rules and Disclosure with Big Data" |
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16:00-16:30 |
David Halpern (Behavioural Insights Team, Cabinet Office) "Putting Behavioural Insights into Practice" |
| Day 2 - Saturday 18 October | |
| Session 5 (chair: Oren Bar-Gill) | |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Mark Armstrong (All Souls college, Oxford) "Search and Rip-Off Externalities" |
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10:00-10:30 |
Chris Walters (Competition and Markets Authority) "Putting Behavioural Economics into Practice at the CMA" |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Paul Heidhues (ESMT) & Botond Koszegi (CEU) "Privacy" |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
| Session 6 (chair: John Beshears) | |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (NYU) "Behaviour and Disclosure in Online Contracts" |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Oren Bar-Gill (Harvard) "Price Caps in Multi-Price Markets" |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
| Session 7 (chair: Robert Sugden) | |
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14:00-14:30 |
Roman Inderst (Goethe Universitat Frankfurt) "Targeted Communication" |
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14:30-15:00 |
John Beshears (Harvard) "Self Control, Liquidity, and the Design of Savings Systems" |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee break |
| Session 8 (chair: Michael Grubb) | |
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15:30-16:00 |
Robert Sugden (UEA) "Consumers' Surplus for Consumers who Lack Coherent preferences" |
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16:00-16:30 |
Matthew Rabin (Harvard) "Some Implications of Mispredicting Own Future Behaviour and Feelings" |