Program Overview

Thursday, April 12

8:30 - 9:30 Arrival, registration and welcome coffee
9:30 - 10:45 Parallel Sessions I
10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15   

Plenary Session I

 

Neuroeconomic Foundations of Economic Choice and (Ir)rationality

Speaker: Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich
Introduction: Armin Schmutzler, University of Zurich
Session Chair: Conny Wunsch, University of St. Gallen

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:15 Parallel Sessions II
15:15 - 15:45 Break
15:45 - 16:45 Plenary Session II
 

Using Behavioral Economics to Change Health Behaviors: Successes, Failures and Lessons Learned

Speaker: George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Introduction: Roberto Weber, University of Zurich
Session Chair: Björn Bartling, University of Zurich

16:45 - 17:00 Break
17:00 - 18:00 Plenary Session III
                            

The Weak Rationality Principle

Speaker: Gebhard Kirchgaessner, University of St. Gallen
Introduction: Philippe Bacchetta, University of Lausanne
Session Chair: Alois Stutzer, University of Basel

18:30 Conference Dinner

Friday, April 13

8:30 - 9:00 SSES General Assembly
9:00 - 10:15 Parallel Sessions III
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45       Plenary Session IV
 

Bounded Rationality in Dynamic Decision Problems

Speaker: Reinhard Selten, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn
Introduction: Gebhard Kirchgaessner, University of St. Gallen
Session Chair: Roberto Weber, University of Zurich

11:45 - 11:55 Transition period
11:55 - 13:10 Parallel Sessions IV
13:10 - 14:10 Lunch
14:10 End of the Conference