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21.3.2024 Workshop on experimental methodology in research and for policymaking 2
A Workshop on experimental methodology in research and for policymaking 2 will take place on 21.3.2024 from 9:00 to 16:00.
The workshop is organized by the BEE4Rlab of the Faculty of Economics and Finance of the EUBA and the individual sessions will be led and the results of their research will be presented by distinguished experts, including Lata Gangadharan (Monash U), Duncan James (Fordham U), Dagmara Celik Katreniak (City U), Michal Bauer (CERGE-EI), Anand Murugesan (CEU), Tomáš Želinský (TUKE), and others.
The morning sessions will focus on issues of experimental methodology, while the afternoon sessions will focus on the presentation of specific research results.Participation in the workshop is free of charge, upon registration here.
Detailed program with abstracts is available here.
- 18.9.2023 Workshop on experimental methodology in research and for policymaking
The Workshop on experimental methodology in research and for policymaking will take place on 18.9.2023 from 9:30 to 16:30.
The workshop is organized by the BEE4Rlab of the Faculty of Economics and Finance of the EUBA and the individual sessions will be led and the results of their research will be presented by distinguished experts, including Robert Slonim (UoT Sydney) Cary Deck (U of Alabama) Daniel Woods (U of Innsbruck), Jean-Robert Tyran (U of Vienna, EUBA), Ben Greiner (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Tomáš Želinský (TUKE) and others.
The morning sessions will focus on issues of experimental methodology, the afternoon sessions will focus on the presentation of concrete research results.
Participation in the workshop is free of charge, upon registration here.
A detailed workshop programme will be distributed to registered participants.
- Professor Maroš Servátka among the five highest rated Slovak economists
The Slovak Economic Association published a ranking of the evaluation of Slovak economists according to the quality of their publications. This assessment takes into account the Article Impact Score (AIS) of each article. Several employees of the University of Economics ranked high among the evaluated. Professor Maroš Servátka of the Department of Finance of the FNE, who is a member of the BEE4R Lab team, was placed in an excellent 5th place in publications in economic journals. Congratulations!
More information and the whole ranking can be found here: https://econrank.sk/en/scores/
Research seminar series and workshops
- 12.10.2020
Topic: Separating True Preferences from Noise and Endogenous Effort
Speaker: Tomáš Jagelka, University of Bonn, Institute for Applied Microeconomics
Time and location: 11:00 - 12:30, room2B50
Abstract: We propose a two-stage model of decision-making under risk which explicitly accounts for the fact that any observed choice is preceded by a decision on whether to exert effort. We analyze data from a representative sample of over 1,000 individuals each of whom made choices on 55 incentivized tasks of two different experimental designs for eliciting risk preferences. We demonstrate that our model can be used to evaluate the noise content of a given experimental design and to de-bias risk aversion estimates when necessary. While the two lottery designs we study were used interchangeably in the past, we estimate that a change from the more complex design to the more intuitive one results in a 30% decrease in (rational) inattention. Failure to properly account for decision errors results in estimates of risk preferences biased up to 50% compared to their true values.
- Workshop on Introduction into Experimental Economics
Speaker: Professor Cary Deck (University of Alabama, USA)
Time and location: 9.12.2019, 14:00 - 17:00, room 5C02
Cary Deck is Professor of Economics at the University of Alabama and he has published nearly 80 articles in the world's leading journals, including the American Economic Review and Econometrica. During the workshop, he will present the rules of experimental research - why, on what questions and how to use laboratory and field experiments. The workshop is focused mainly on PhD students and eraly carrer researchers interested in experimental economics. - 10.01.2020
Topic: Forward premia in electricity power markets: an experimental investigation
Speaker: Silvester van Koten (VŠE Praha, CR)
Time and location: 11:00 - 12:30, room 1C02 - 09.12.2019
Topic: How can university´s research institute serve community or How to impact community?
Speaker: Kathy Deck (University of Alabama, USA)
Time and location: 09:30 - 11:00, room 1C02
- 09.12.2019
Topic: The Effects of Different Cognitive Manipulations on Economic Decision Making
Speaker: Professor Cary Deck (University of Alabama, USA)
Time and location: 11:00 - 12:30, room 1C02
- 21.10.2019
Topic: Delegation Based on Cheap Talk
Speaker: Professor Ralph-Christopher Bayer (University of Adelaide, Austrália)
Time and location: 11:00 - 12:30, room 1C02
Abstract: We study a real effort environment, where a delegator has to decide if and to whom to delegate a task. Delegating to a person who is better at the task increases welfare. Potential delegatees send cheap-talk messages about their past performance before the delegator decides. We experimentally test the theoretical prediction that information transmission cannot occur. In our experiment, we vary the message space available to the delegatees and compare the information transmitted and the level of efficiency. Depending on the treatment, the sender can either submit a number indicating how many tasks she solved previously, an interval in which the number of tasks falls, or a free text message. We observe that messages contain information in all treatments. Interestingly, information transmission occurs only in the treatments where messages are intervals or free text but not if messages are exact. The highest efficiency is obtained in the free-text treatment, as delegators are able to extract information contained in the different styles of messages sent by subjects with different abilities. - 23.9.2019
Topic: Voter behavior and behavioral/experimental economics
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ivo Bischoff (University of Kassel)
Time and location: 11:00 - 12:30, room 1C02