4th Australia/New Zealand Workshop on Experimental Economics (ANZWEE)

December 18 and 19, 2009, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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Program

18 December

Time   Speaker Title
08:30 Breakfast    
09:00 Welcome speech    
09:15 KEYNOTE TIM CASON Reducing Efficiency through Communication in Competitive Coordination Games
10:00   Vai-Lam Mui Rich Communication and Leader Transgression in the Laboratory Collective Resistance Game
10:30 Break    
10:45   Steven Tucker Creating Self-Sustained Social Norms through Communication and Ostracism
11:15   Nikos Nikiforakis Feuds in the Laboratory! Peer Punishment and Conflicting Norms of Cooperation
11:45   Lana Friesen Certainty of Punishment versus Severity of Punishment: An Experimental Investigation
12:15 Lunch    
  1:15 KEYNOTE JAMES COX Bosses, Kings and Dictators: Effects of Asymmetric Power in Private and Common Property Environments
  2:00   Ben Greiner Strategic Uncertainty in Bargaining - Experimental Evidence
  2:30   Maroš Servátka Sense of Unity and the Hold-up Problem: A Behavioral Study of Firm Boundaries
  3:00 Break    
  3:15   Volodymyr Lugovskyy An Experimental Study of Bubble Formation in Asset Markets Using the Tâtonnement Pricing Mechanism
  3:45   Stephen Cheung Complexity, confusion and bubbles in experimental asset markets
       
  4:45 Lab celebration/drinks    
  7:00 Dinner    

19 December

Time   Speaker Title
08:30 Breakfast    
09:00 KEYNOTE MARTIN DUFWENBERG Psychological Games: Theory & Experiments
09:45   Alvin Etang Does Trust Extend beyond the Village? Experimental Trust and Social Distance in Cameroon
10:15 Break    
10:30   Jörg Oechssler Mandatory Sick Pay Provision: A Labor Market Experiment
11:00   Robert Slonim The multi-dimensional effects of reciprocity on worker effort: Evidence from a labour market quasi-field study run in the laboratory
11:30   Morris Altman Efficiency Wage Idealism: Does Reciprocity and Altruistic Punishment Yield Fair and High Wages?
12:00 Lunch    
  1:00 KEYNOTE CHARLES NOUSSAIR From the lab to the field: Cooperation among fishermen
  1:45   Ananish Chaudhuri Does Strategic Play Explain the Decay in Contributions in a Public Goods Game? Experimental Evidence
  2:15 Break    
  2:30   Anna Gunnthorsdottir Competitive Grouping And Tacit Coordination Of Complex Equilibria In GBM Mechanisms With Two Endowment Levels
  3:00   Tom Wilkening Handing out Guns at a Knife Fight:  Behavioural Limitations to the Moore-Repullo Mechanism
  3:30   Richard Watt How Does an Increase in Risk Affect Insurance Demand? Experimental Evidence
  4:00 Conclusion of workshop