Behavioural/Experimental Economics Seminar (BEES) 2009

Convenor: Elias L. Khalil (elias.khalil@buseco.monash.edu.au)

Co-convenor (1st semester convenor):Vai-Lam Mui (vai-lam.mui@buseco.monash.edu.au)

 
Mission

The Behavioral/Experimental Economics Seminar (BEES) was started in early 2006 as an inter-departmental forum to facilitate the development the research agendas of the faculty and students at Monash University and beyond.   Behavioural economics, to start with, is the child of psychology and economics, and more recently of neuroscience.  It also involves philosophical questions concerning rationality, happiness, and how to ground public policy.  The intention was to nurture budding ideas, provide a place where people can discuss them while ideas are in the early state of development, and to encourage students to pursue theses topics in this rapidly expanding field. 

BEES runs a workshop that meets once a month. BEES has been enlivened with the establishment of MonLEE at the Department of Economics.  MonLEE offers great opportunities to test models in behavioural economics as well as models from more traditional areas such as game theory, auction theory, and equilibrium analysis.

Monday, 30 March (joint with the Monday workshop)
Timothy Cason, Department of Economics, Purdue University
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests

Friday, 8 May

Birendra Rai, Department of Economics, Monash University

The Notion of “Control” and Experimental Design

Monday, 18 May (joint with the Monday workshop)

Arye Hillman, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University

Expressive Behaviour in Economics and Politics

Friday, 29 May

Brett Inder and Terry O’Brien, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University

Which Matters More in Choice Decisions: Loss Aversion or Uncertainty Aversion?

Friday, 31 July

Charles Noussair, Tilburg University

From the lab to the field: Public good provision with fishermen

Friday, 28 August

Elias Khalil, Monash University

If Money Cannot Buy Happiness, How could Happiness still be Contingent on Money? Resolving the Happiness Paradox

25 September

Vai-Lam Mui, Monash University

Coordinating Collective Resistance through Communication and Repeated Interaction: Some New Results

16 October

Joerg Oechssler, Dept of Economics, University of Heidelberg

TBA