INEM 2011 PROGRAM (Detailed)
THURSDAY 1.9.
15:00 – 16:00 Registration University main building (Street address: Fabianinkatu 33) Lobby
Room 6: Crisis
Chair: Wade Hands
Karin Astrid
Siegmann and John
Cameron
Why did mainstream
economics miss the crisis?
The role of epistemological
and methodological blinkers
Jonathan Perraton
Déjà-vu? The Current Crisis
and Macroeconomic
Analysis: The 1970s
Revisited?
16:00 – 18:00 Contributed papers I
Room 7: Behavioral economics,
Room 15: Foundations of choice theory
economics & psychology
Chair: Conrad Heilmann
Chair: Aris Spanos
Cost – Signaling Theory of
John Davis Bounded Rationality Paul Fudulu
and Bounded
Preference Formation and Some
Individuality
of its Implications
Jaakko
Kuorikoski
and
Alessandro
Lanteri
Lost in aversion: Loss
aversion,
endowment effect
and mechanistic
extrapolation
Adolfo Garcia de la
Sienra
Is every Measurement a StructureHomomorphism?
Silvia
Lerner
Invariance and
Extensionality in
Theories of Choice
Salim Rashid
Underdetermination, Multiplicity,
and Mathematical Logic
18:15 – 19:15 Small Festival Hall (Pieni juhlasali) Chair: Uskali Mäki
Alan Kirman: The Crisis in Economic Theory
19:30 Press Hall (lehtisali)
Rector’s reception
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FRIDAY 2.9.
9:30 – 10:30 Small festival hall (Pieni juhlasali) Chair: Wade Hands
CANCELLED CANCELLED Steven Medema: CANCELLED CANCELLED
10:45 – 12:45 Contributed papers II
Room 6: Econometrics & causation
Room 7: Choice theory (discounting)
Room 15: Economics & sociology, performativity
Chair: Jaakko Kuorikoski
Chair: Mariam Thalos
Chair: Jesper Jespersen
Causal Structure
The Shape and
Ekaterina Svetlova
Does Performativity Matter?
Kevin Hoover
Till Grüne-Yanoff
and Hierarchies of
Meaning of
and Jacob Arnoldi
The Emperor’s Old Clothes
Discounting:
Models
Exchanges Between
Economics and
Psychology
Alessio Moneta and
Federica Russo
Statistical models
and their causal
interpretation in
econometrics
Conrad Heilmann
Foundations of Time
Discounting
José Guillermo
Peláez, Guillermo
Cavazos and Arturo
Lara
The Fallacy of Solipsism and
Cartesian Fallacy in the
Theoretical Construct:
towards a new conception of
performativity of economics
Aris Spanos
The
Untrustworthiness of
Empirical Evidence in
Economics: Statistical
vs. Substantive
Information
Alessandra Basso
The Choice of a
Discount Factor in
the Economics of
Climate Change
Learry Gagné
Is "Convention Economics" a
New Kind of Economics, or
Something Else Entirely?
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Lunch 12:45 – 14:00
Room 6: Macroeconomics
Chair: Kevin Hoover
Why
Brian Epstein
Macroeconomics
does not Supervene
on Microeconomics
Jesper Jespersen
‘Uncertainty’: a real
methodological
challenge in
macroeconomics
Ming Chien Lo and
Kristof van Assche
The taming of the
shrew: how
macroeconomists
attempt to handle
the complexity of
the economy
14:00 – 16:00 Contributed papers III
Room 7: Experimental economics
Room 15: History of thought
Chair: Francesco Guala
Cancelled
María Jiménez
Experimental
Buedo, David Teira
Economics and
and Jesús ZamoraRandomized Clinical
Bonilla
Trials: A
comparative
analysis of
statregies to control
reactivity in
experiments with
humans.
Attilia Ruzzene
Low in External
Validity, High with
Extrapolation
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Room 6: Foundations of welfare
economics
Chair: Larry Boland
The Debate on the
Boguslaw Czarny
Nature of Welfare
Economics in the
Contemporary
Methodology of
Economics
16:00 – 16:30 Refreshments
16:30 – 18:30 Contributed papers IV
Room 7: Team Preferences, Collective
Intentionality
Chair: Don Ross
Testing Collective
Francesco Guala
Intentionality
Theories; Shared
Goals, Preferences,
and Counterfactuals
Room 15: Economics as a science, and the
economics of science
Chair: María Jiménez-Buedo
Mathieu
New Economics of Science
and/or Economics of
Ballandonne
Scientific Knowledge? The
Case of Paul David
Juan Carlos GarcíaBermejo
Set-wise judgment
aggregation by the
majority, special
majority and
plurality rules
Natalie Gold
Team Reasoning
and Self Control
Florian Fougy-Houël
Economic rationality:
mechanisms of diffusion in
the scientific community
Joerg Kuehnelt
Should rational
individuals endorse
the results of a
hypothetical
agreement?
Michiru Nagatsu
Cognitive and
Motivational
Mechanisms of
Voluntary
Cooperation in
Social Dilemmas: An
Experimental Study
Till Düppe
Why Economics Became a
Science; Suspicion, Anxiety
and Knowledge in Economic
Discourse
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SATURDAY 3.9.
Room 6: Economics and evolution
Chair: Brian Epstein
10:00 – 12:00 Contributed papers V
Room 7: Models I: modelling & explanation
Chair: Till Grüne-Yanoff
Room 15: Measurement and economic
theorizing
Chair: Marcel Boumans
The increasing role
Ricardo Crespo
of practical reason in
the Human
Development
Reports
Jack Vromen
The case for Strong
Reciprocity: Why
the strategy of
contrasting Strong
Reciprocity with
Weak Reciprocity
backfires
Lawrence A. Boland
Choosing model
building methods
Jan Willem
Lindemans
Against
methodological
totalitarianism: On
the actual role of
rational choice and
evolution in
explaining
cooperation
Gil Hertshten
Minimal Learning
from Minimal
Models
Tyler DesRoches
On the Concept of
Natural Capital and
its relevance to
Economic Theory
Don Ross
The Evolution of
Individualistic
Norms
Petri Ylikoski and N.
Emrah Aydinonat
Models Come in
Clusters: Abstract
Models and HowPossibly Explanations
Maria and José
Caamaño-Alegre
Enlarged Empirical
Economics and the
Quest for Validity
Lunch 12:00 – 13:15
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Room 6: Philosophy of economics
Chair: Aki Lehtinen
Uskali Mäki
Recent accounts of
economics
imperialism
Andrea Salanti
Rigor versus
relevance in
economic theory:
An attempt at
reorienting the
debate
13:15 – 15:15 Contributed papers VI
Room 7: Models II: modelling & economic
expertise
Chair: Alessio Moneta
Christian Dieckhoff
Credible Worlds,
and Eugen
possibilistic
foreknowledge and
Pissarskoi
policy decisions – a
case study on
energy scenarios
Room 15: Networks
Chair: Petri Ylikoski
Caterina Marchionni
Explanatory styles –
modeling networks
in sociology and
economics
Marcel Boumans
Economics as a Field
Science: Towards a
methodology of
expert knowledge
Mariam Thalos
Network effects in
decision systems
Carlo Martini
Modeling Experts:
The Role of Experts
in the Methodology
of Economics
Bradley Turner
Social Networks as a
Rising Challenge for
Economics
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Room 6: The firm
Chair: John Davis
On the reference of the
Aki Lehtinen
marginalist 'firm'
5 min break
15:20 – 17:20 Contributed papers VII
Room 7: Models III: modelling & policy
Chair: Caterina Marchionni
General versus
François Claveau
Context-Specific
Policy Claims: The
Case of the
Economics of Macro
Unemployment
Room 15: Limits of economics
Chair: Karin Astrid Siegmann
The Mecca of
Michael Joffe
economics
Beatrice BouluReshef
Affiliation strategies and Luis Mireles Flores
intrafirm cooperation:
an evolutionary model of
personal identity in the
firm
Theoretical
Oleg Ananyin
perspectives and
policy
recommendations in
economics
North’s Critique:
Towards Economics
of Cultural Codes
Jorma Sappinen
Evolutionary economics,
contrastive explanation,
and strategic
management
The problem of
Kuhnian rationality
Towards a more
rationalised set of
criticisms
Rogier de Langhe
Melissa Vergara
Fernández
17:20 – 17:45 Refreshments
17:45-19:00 Small Festival Hall (Pieni juhlasali) Chair: Jack Vromen
Daniel Hausman: Some Misconceptions about Preferences
20:00 Conference dinner at Restaurant Sipuli (Address: Kanavaranta 7)
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