Event Archive: WS 2011

Panel Review: Experimental Economics Examination of Congestion Pricing

December 5, 2011 - December 5, 2011

Georgia State University

Download Program Experimental economics has been successfully used in examining tax compliance, public goods, political economy, tax incidence, game-theoretic models of imperfect competition, willingness to pay and other experiments. This research exam… more »

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Structural Modeling of Heterogeneity in Discrete Choice Under Risk and Uncertainty

December 1, 2011 - December 2, 2011

Georgia State University

Download Program The workshop disseminates current innovations in econometric and psychometric treatment of structural statistical modeling of heterogeneity, mainly as applied to decision making under risk and uncertainty. By heterogeneity, we mean het… more »

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7th International Microinsurance Conference 2011

November 8, 2011 - November 10, 2011

Sheraton

The 7th International Microinsurance Conference that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 8 –10 November 2011. It was hosted by the Munich Re Foundation and the Microinsurance Network and supported by the Brazilian Confederation of Insurers (CNseg)… more »

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Rank-Dependent Models of Risky Behavior: A 30th Birthday Party

September 22, 2011 - September 23, 2011

Georgia State University

Download Program The objective of this workshop is to get together researchers that have examined RDU from both a theoretical and experimental perspective. The theoretical issues range from calibration questions, to the axioms that underlie RDU, to the… more »

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Traffic Risk

February 21, 2011 - February 22, 2011

Georgia State University

Download Program Traffic congestion is becoming an increasingly urgent problem for many metropolitan areas around the world. With limited resources for expanding transportation infrastructure, alternative solutions have been sought using congestion pri… more »

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Risk and Theories of Agency

January 21, 2011 - January 22, 2011

Georgia State University

Download Program How do risk attitudes manifest themselves at different levels of “the agent”? The term agent here refers to the decision unit. In many theoretical models and policy applications the unit is the individual, but it could also be a group,… more »

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The Econometrics of Risk

January 10, 2011 - January 11, 2011

Sheraton Denver Downtown

Download Program The workshop disseminates current innovations in econometric work having to do with choice under risk and over time. Talks range over foundational econometric and measurement issues, innovative applied work on behavioral puzzles and an… more »

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