NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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USA
Geschäftsstelle / Head Office
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Germany
German Research Foundation
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871 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
USA
DFG-NSF Research Conference on
Contextualizing Economic Behavior
Aug 21-23, 2008
New York City
http://cbees.utdallas.edu/nsf/
Preliminary Conference Schedule
Thursday, August, 21
6:30 PM
German House, 871 UN PLAZA, New York, NY 10017,
23rd floor
6:40 PM
Welcome
Dr. Horst Freitag
Consul General of Germany in New York
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kleiner, President
German Research Foundation DFG
Dr. David Lightfoot
Assistant Director
Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
NSF
7:00 PM
Dinner
Followed by
Opening Talk: Herbert Gintis (CalTech/ University of
Massachusetts)
Day 1 (Friday, August, 22) Morning
7:30
Shuttle service from Millennium UN Plaza Hotel to
conference venue
8:00 - 8:30
Breakfast at conference venue Liederkranz
Foundation
8:30 - 8:45
Introduction
8:45 - 10:30
Session 1: Money, Prices, Finance
Organizer: Richard Swedberg (Cornell University)
1. Viviana Zelizer (Princeton University)
2. Anna-Maria Lusardi (Dartmouth College)
3. Christoph Deutschmann (University of Tuebingen)
4. Heiner Ganssmann (Free University Berlin)
Discussant: Jan Kregel (Bard College, Levy Economics Institute)
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:30
Session 2: Engineering Trust in Anonymous Markets
Organizer: Axel Ockenfels (University of Cologne)
1. Gary Bolton (Pennsylvania State University)
2. Thomas Mussweiler (Cologne University)
3. Klaus Schmidt (University of Munich)
4. Brian Burke (Head Division Safety and Feedback
eBay.com).
Discussant: Paul Resnick (University of Michigan)
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
DFG-NSF Presentation on Funding Possibilities for
Bilateral Joint Projects, Q&A Session
Day 1 (Friday, August, 22) Afternoon and Evening
2.00 - 3:45
Session 3: Individual Behavior and Institutional
Design
Organizer: Axel Ockenfels (University of Cologne)
1. Werner Raub (University of Utrecht)
2. Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
3. Werner Gueth (Max Planck Institute of Economics)
4. Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne)
Discussant: Simon Gaechter (University of Nottingham)
3:45 - 4:15
Coffee Break
4:15 - 6:00
Session 4: Market Microstructures
Organizer: Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Constance)
1. Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon University)
2. Lawrence Harris (University of Southern California)
3. Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Constance)
4. Jens Beckert (MPIfG Cologne)
Discussant: Sophie Muetzel (Humboldt University Berlin)
6:00 - 7:00
Young Researchers' Poster Session
7:00 - 7:30
Professor Hannelore Roemich, New York University
On the topic of New York museums and conservation
science
7:45 – 8:30
Guided tour of the Neue Galerie New York
8:45 – 10:45
Dinner at Liederkranz Foundation
Day 2 (Saturday, August, 23) Morning
7:30
Shuttle service from Millennium UN Plaza Hotel to
conference venue
8:00 - 8:30
Breakfast at conference venue Liederkranz
Foundation
8.30 - 10:15
Session 5: Emotions and Economic Action
Organizer: Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Constance)
1. Richard L. Peterson (Market Psychology
Consulting)
2. Fritz Strack (University of Wuerzburg)
3. Randall Collins (University of Pennsylvania)
4. Dmitry V. Repin (MIT/Higher School of Economics)
Discussant: Alex Preda (University of Constance)
10:15 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:15
Session 6: Models of Action and Prosocial Behavior
Organizer: Catherine Eckel (University of Texas at Dallas)
1. Erin Krupka (IZA – Bonn University)
2. Thomas Dohmen (University of Maastricht)
3. Klaus Fiedler (University of Heidelberg)
4. Rick Wilson (Rice University)
Discussant: Rachel Croson (University of Texas at Dallas)
12.15 - 1:45
Lunch
Young Researchers’ Poster Session
Day 2 (Saturday, August, 23) Afternoon
1:45- 3:30
Session 7: Gender, Stereotyping and Discrimination
Organizer: Catherine Eckel (University of Texas at Dallas)
1. Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh)
2. William A. Darity (University of North Carolina)
3. Dagmar Stahlberg (University of Mannheim)
4. Catherine Eckel (University of Texas at Dallas)
Discussant: Shelly Lundberg (University of Washington)
3:30 - 3:45
Coffee Break
3:45 - 5:15
Session 8: Entrepreneurship and Economic Elites
Organizer: Richard Swedberg (Cornell University)
1. Martin Ruef (Princeton University)
2. Richard Swedberg (Cornell University)
3. Peter Lindner (University of Frankfurt)
4. Friederike Welter (University of Siegen)
Discussant: Howard Aldrich (University of North Carolina)
5:15 - 5:45
Coffee Break
5:45-7:30
Session 9: Panel Convergences and Divergences
1. Wolfgang Streeck (MPIfG Cologne)
2. Jean Ensminger (CalTech)
3. Harrison C. White (Columbia University)
7:30
Shuttle Service to German House
8.00
Dinner at the German House
Poster Sessions:
Hendrik Zorn (MPIfG Cologne)
Saskia Freye (MPIfG Cologne)
Nadja Trhal (University of Cologne)
Peter Werner (University of Cologne)
Leon Wansleben (University of Constance)
Barbara Grimpe (University of Constance)
Tom Siedler (DIW Berlin)
Clemens Kroneberg (University of Mannheim)
Henrik Vollmer (University of Bielefeld)
Torsten Strulik (University of Bielefeld)
Jan Crusius (University of Cologne)
Jana Janssen (University Mannheim)
Patrick Mueller (University of Utrecht)
Christian Unkelbach (University of New South Wales)
Ben Greiner (Harvard University)
Angela Milano de Oliveira (University of Texas)
Laura Ford (Cornell Unversity)
Nicolas Eilbaum (Cornell University)
Rachel Harvey (San Francisco)
Erica Coslor (University of Chicago)
Daniel Rosenberg (University of Chicago)
Emilia Simeonova (Columbia University)
Simone Pollilo (University of Pennsylvania)
Gabriel Abend (Northwestern University)