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Workshop: Behavioral and Experimental Economics for Innovative Policy-Making

CIRANO

From Thursday 20 Apr 2023 at 9AM
To Friday 21 Apr 2023 at 4PM

As part of the workshop: Behavioral and Experimental Economics for Innovative Policy Making, CIRANO organized a meeting on behavioural and experimental economics for decision makers of government and industry partners.

Behavioural economics, with its use of experimental methods, makes key contributions to public economics by providing a more realistic and nuanced understanding of how people make decisions. This understanding helps explain why individuals may make decisions that are not in their best interests, and how policymakers can design policies to mitigate these decision-making biases. For these reasons, behavioural economics plays a significant role in addressing a wide range of public policy issues, including environmental change, health policy, education policy, immigration, and social inequality. 

The CIRANO organized the “Behavioral and Experimental Economics for Innovative Policy Making,” a practical scientific workshop on behavioural economics and public policy that brought together leading researchers and practitioners to share their latest research and thinking on behavioural public economics. The workshop covered a wide range of topics that can inform policy decisions in areas such as financial literacy, consumer protection, educational policy, leadership development, and environmental protection.

This workshop was organized in honour of Claude Montmarquette who was one of the pioneers of experimental and behavioural economics in Canada. His work has had a significant impact on the field of economics and public policy. He was known for using experimental methods to inform economic policy. We hope that Montmarquette’s work will inspire future generations of researchers to follow in his footsteps and to continue his legacy of using experimental and behavioural methods to inform economic policy and improve people’s lives.

 

 

Call for papers JESA special issue and a CIRANO Workshop «Behavioral and Experimental Economics for Innovative Policy-Making»

CIRANO researchers traveled by train thanks to a partnership with VIA Rail Canada.

Christian Belzil

Serge Blondel

Andy Brownback

Anne Corcos

Anne Corcos is a professor at the University of Picardie (France) and Deputy Director of its Department of Economics and Management. Her early work focused on finance and chaos theory. Her recent research in behavioural economics investigates decision making in different informational contexts: certainty (consumer choice, social networks), risk (insurance, prevention, finance) and uncertainty (trust). In particular, she studies how the architecture of choice influences and guides individuals' decisions.

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Alexander Coutts

David Gill

Nicolas Jacquemet

Tomas Jagelka

Claudia Keser

Claudia Keser is a professor and Chair of Microeconomics at the Georg August University of Göttingen. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bonn. Her research interests are experimental economics, game theory and behavioral economics with applications in economics, business, psychology and political science. An important focus of her work has been on cooperation and coordination in societies.

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Sabine Kröger

Dorothea Kübler

Louis Lévy-Garboua

Louis Lévy-Garboua is currently an emeritus professor of economics at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University and Paris School of Economics, a research fellow at the Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne (CES, Paris), and an associate fellow at CIRANO (Montreal). He is the Founding Director of the Master program "Economics and Psychology" jointly delivered by Pantheon-Sorbonne and Paris Descartes universities.

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Noémie Martin

Noemie Martin is a Ph.D. candidate at the economics department of Montreal University. She holds a masters degree in Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Policy and Energy Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics.

Her research interests focus on environmental economics, in particular on the energy sector.

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David Masclet

Catherine Michaud-Leclerc

Philip Oreopoulos

Lionel Page

Laure Saulais

Marie Claire Villeval

Ao Wang

Nong Zhu

Nong Zhu is an associate professor at INRS - Centre Urbanisation Culture Société, with a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Auvergne, France, 2002). His research interests are mainly in the following areas: migration, economic integration of immigrants, labor market, firms, and rural development. He is responsible for several research projects on income inequality and immigrant poverty, innovation and firm performance, migration to rural areas and socio-spatial segregation, etc.

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Program

Wednesday, April 19
13:00 - 19:00
Meeting on behavioural and experimental economics for decision makers of government and industry partners
Thursday, April 20
8:00 - 8:50
Breakfast
Thursday, April 20
8:50 - 9:00
Welcoming Remarks
Thursday, April 20
9:00 - 10:00
Keynote Address: The Importance of a Helping Hand in Education and in Life
Philip Oreopoulos
Thursday, April 20
10:00 - 10:15
Coffe break
Thursday, April 20
10:15 - 10:45
The Creativity Premium
David Gill
Thursday, April 20
10:45 - 11:15
The signals we give: Performance feedback, gender, and competition
Alexander Coutts
Thursday, April 20
11:15 - 11:45
College Summer School: Educational Benefits and Enrollment Preferences
Andy Brownback
Thursday, April 20
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
Thursday, April 20
13:30 - 14:00
Learning to cooperate in the shadow of the law
Nicolas Jacquemet
Thursday, April 20
14:00 - 14:30
Relational Interests and Dispositional Determinants in Norm Enforcement
Thursday, April 20
14:30 - 15:00
Monetary Incentives and the Contagion of Unethical Behavior
Thursday, April 20
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee break
Thursday, April 20
15:15 - 16:30
Poster session
Laure Saulais, Nong Zhu, Tomas Jagelka, Sabine Kröger, Serge Blondel
Thursday, April 20
16:30 - 16:45
Coffee break
Thursday, April 20
16:45 - 17:15
What if compulsory insurance triggered self-insurance? An experimental evidence
Anne Corcos
Thursday, April 20
17:15 - 17:45
Optimally Irrational
Thursday, April 20
17:45 - 18:15
The power of leadership in changing social norms
Marie Claire Villeval
Thursday, April 20
19:00 - 22:00
Dinner
Friday, April 21
9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
Friday, April 21
9:30 - 10:30
Keynote Address: The Limits of Markets and Market Design: Experimental Evidence
Dorothea Kübler
Friday, April 21
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee break
Friday, April 21
10:45 - 11:15
Distortions in Complex Decisions: Evidence from Centralized College Admission
Ao Wang
Friday, April 21
11:15 - 11:45
The Impact of Public Policies on the Dynamics of School Enrollment and Dropout: Evidence from Canada
Catherine Michaud-Leclerc
Friday, April 21
11:45 - 12:15
Efficiency of education systems when students have an imperfect knowledge of their own ability: an experimental approach
Friday, April 21
12:15 - 12:45
Estimating the Effects of Randomized Higher Education Financial Aid on University Enrollment and Fields of Study
Friday, April 21
12:45 - 13:00
Closing remarks
Friday, April 21
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch

Location


1130 Rue Sherbrooke O #1400, Montréal, QC H3A 2M8, Canada