Økonomisk institutt

The Oslo Seminars in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

The seminars aim to bring together scholars from different institutions and disciplines to discuss topics of relevance to behavioral and experimental economics. The series is organized as collaboration between the Department of Economics, University of Oslo, the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, and CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research).

Seminars normally take place at Room 1205 (the Frisch Room) in Eilert Sunds hus, University of Oslo, Blindern Campus, the last Monday each month, 14.15 – 15.30. Coffee and tea will be served.

Program, fall of 2007

Extra seminar: August 20, 14.15 – 15.30	Dirk Engelmann, Royal Holloway, University of London: "A Within-Subject Analysis of Other-Regarding Preferences" (co-authors: Mariana Blanco and Hans-Theo Normann)
September 3, 14.15 – 15.30 Note the date!	Karen Evelyn Hauge, University of Oslo: “Normative reflection in a public good experiment”
Extra seminar: Thursday September 13, Room 1220, Eilert Sund Building. Note the date and place!	David H. Reiley, University of Arizona, Tucson: The War for the Fare: How Driver Compensation Affects Bus System Performance (co-authors: R.M. Johnson, J.C. Muñoz) (Joint with the Thursday Seminars of the Department of Economics, University of Oslo)
September 24: POSTPONED until Nov. 12!
October 29, 14.15 – 15.30	Steffen Kallbekken, CICERO/University of Oslo: "Do you not like Pigou, or do you not understand him? Tax Aversion in the Lab" (co-author: Stephan Kroll).
November 12, 12.30 – 13.45 NOTE THE DATE AND TIME!	Sheetal Chand, University of Oslo: "Affect, Cognitive Evaluations, and Well-Being: A Homeostatic Approach"
November 26, 14.15 – 15.30 (Note: Time may be changed to 12.30. Message follows!)	Olof Johansson-Stenman, University of Gothenburg: "Non-Linear Income Taxation and Public Good Provision when Relative Consumption Matters: An OLG Approach" (co-author: Thomas Aronsson)

Previous seminars

Announcement of the First Nordic Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Economics, November 9-10, 2006

Program committee:

Geir Asheim (Department of Economics, University of Oslo)

Kjell Arne Brekke (Department of Economics, University of Oslo, and Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research)

Steffen Kallbekken (CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research)

Karine Nyborg (Department of Economics, University of Oslo, and Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research)