CAGE: Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
CAGE Conference: Individual Characteristics and Economic Decisions
17th - 18th January 2014
Radcliffe, University of Warwick
Organised by Eugenio Proto
Friday 17th January 2014
Session 1: Introduction
09:15
Coffee/Reception
09:25
Eugenio Proto (Warwick)
Welcome
09:30
Andrew Oswald (Warwick)
“Randomized Controlled Trials in Social Science”
10:15
Coffee
Session 2: Intertemporal Preferences. Chaired by John Stovall
10:30
Kyle Hyndman (Maastricht University)
11:30
Uwe Sunde (University of Munich)
12:30
Lunch (by invitation only)
“Do Lottery Payments Induce Savings Behavior?
Evidence from the Lab”
“Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in InterTemporal Choice”
Session 3: Preferences for Risk. Chaired by Sascha Becker
13:45
Neil Stewart (University of Warwick)
“On the Origin of Utility, Weighting, and
Discounting Functions: How They Get Their Shapes
and How to Change Their Shapes”
14:45
Joshua Miller (Bocconi University)
“A cold shower for the hot hand fallacy”
15:45
Coffee
Session 4: Bounded Rationality. Chaired by Peter Hammond
16:00
Marco Mariotti (University of St Andrews)
“Stochastic Choice and Consideration Sets”
17:00
Anandi Mani (University of Warwick)
“Poverty Impedes Cognitive Functions”
18:00
Nick Chater (University of Warwick)
“Virtual Agreement: A foundation for social
interaction and communication”
19:30
Dinner (by invitation only)
CAGE Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Department of Economics  University of Warwick
www.warwick.ac.uk/go/cage
Saturday 18th January 2014
Session 1: Personality and economic decisions 1. Neil Stewart
09:00
Gordon Brown (Warwick University)
10:00
11:00
11:15
Eugenio Proto ( University of Warwick)
Coffee
Andrew Schotter (New York University)
12:15
Lunch (by invitation only)
“Personality, context, and choice: interactions and
stability”
“Personality and Cooperation”
“Personality and Choice in Risky and Ambiguous
Environments: An Experimental Study”
Session 3: Genes and Economic Outcomes. Chaired by Jan Emmanuel De Neve
13:30
14:30
Philip Koellinger (University of
Amsterdam)
Dan Benjamin (Cornell University)
15:30
Coffee
“Genoeconomics – Promises, pitfalls, and the
example of educational attainment”
“Identifying Genetic Variants Associated with
Cognitive Performance Using Educational
Attainment as a Proxy Phenotype"
Session 3: Biological Functions and Behaviour. Chaired by Jan Emmanuel De Neve
15:45
Marie Claire Villeval (University of Lyon)
“Self Control and Intertemporal Choice: Evidence
from Glucose and Depletion Interventions”
16:45
Eyal Winter (University of Leicester)
“Strategic Emotions”
17:45
19:30
Conference Close
Dinner (by invitation only)
CAGE Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Department of Economics  University of Warwick
www.warwick.ac.uk/go/cage