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The 12th BESLab Experimental Economics Summer School in Macroeconomics
Carleton University, Canada, June 24-30, 2019

The 12th BESLab Experimental Economics Summer School in Macroeconomics
Carleton University, Canada, June 24-30, 2019
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Introduction
The aim of this summer school is to introduce young macroeconomists to experimental approaches of research. Macroeconomic theories have traditionally been tested using non-experimental "field" data. However, modern, micro-founded macroeconomic models can also be tested in the laboratory, and researchers are increasingly pursuing such experimental tests. Graduate students and young faculty specializing in macroeconomics or experimental economics are invited to attend this intensive 5-day summer school.
The summer school will be held from June 24 to 30, 2019 at Carleton University, Canada. Students will be taught experimental methods and are introduced to various topics of experimental research relevant for macroeconomics, such as growth, labor, monetary exchange, financial crises, equilibrium selection and stability. Students will be asked to participate in experiments and to develop their own experimental macroeconomic projects in groups of 3 or 4 students. Faculty will assist with and critique these projects. The different links on the top of this page will give you access to details regarding the particulars of the summer school in experimental macroeconomics.
The summer school consists of 5 days of teaching with 9-10 lectures of 90 minutes by the faculty, 4-5 experiments, 5 group sessions of 90 minutes each, and a final session in which student groups present their proposals and get comments from the faculty. Faculty members will also help during the group sessions for counseling students. Students can also submit research proposals as part of their summer school application, though this is not a requirement for participation in the summer school. Indeed, one purpose of the summer school is to start new research projects and think of macroeconomic topics and models that can be implemented in the laboratory or in field experiments in a way that advances our knowledge of behavior and our understanding of macroeconomics. Past participants have published articles based on their summer school projects in high-ranked journals.
Summer school students are expected to attend the 2-day 10th BESLab International Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics from June 25-26, 2019 that will take place at the Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
The deadline for applications is April 1, 2019. The participation fee is 300 Euros/350 USD /450 CAD. There is a possibility of financial support to students who need financial assistance subject to funding availability.
The accommodations are in Leeds House: 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5R1 (https://conferenceservices.carleton.ca/suite/). The rate is $60/night + taxes.
Lecturers and Organizers
- Gabriele Camera (Chapman University and University of Bologna )
- John Duffy (University of California, Irvine)
- Rosemarie Nagel (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Barcelona GSE)
- Luba Petersen (Simon Fraser University)
- Jasmina Arifovic (Simon Fraser University)
- Cars Hommes (University of Amsterdam)
Organizers
- Frank Heinemann (Technische Universität Berlin)
- Janet Jiang (Bank of Canada)
Program
An intensive 5-day summer school devoted to instructing macroeconomists in experimental methods will be offered on the main campus Carleton University, Canada, from June 24-30, 2018. The aim of the summer school will be both to promote experimental methods among macroeconomists and to assist with and critique participants' proposals for macroeconomic experiments.
Additionally, students of the summer school are invited to the 2-day 10th BESLab International Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics from June 25-26 to held at the Bank of Canada.
There are many insights to be gained from controlled laboratory experimentation that cannot be obtained using standard macroeconometric approaches, i.e., econometric analyses of the macroeconomic data reported by government agencies. Often the data most relevant to testing a macroeconomic model are simply unavailable. There may also be identification, endogeneity and equilibrium selection issues that cannot be satisfactorily addressed using econometric methods. Indeed, Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas (1986) was among the first macroeconomist to make such observations and he invited laboratory tests of rational expectations macroeconomic models. The summer school will review the experimental literature in macroeconomics that has arisen in the 30 years since Lucas's invitation. A tentative schedule of topics to be covered is given below.
Some information
Room locations:
- Classroom activities: Leeds House 124
- Experimental demonstrations: VSIM 3228
Dinner:
We will be having the Summer School dinner at 8 pm on Thursday at EVOO Greek Kitchen located at 438 Preston St, Ottawa, ON K1S 4N4.
Some details about transit:
- Cooperation among strangers with and without a monetary system (Gabriele Camera)
- Behavioral & experimental macroeconomics and policy analysis: a complex systems approach (Cars Hommes)
- Overview of Macroeconomic Experiments (John Duffy)
- Intertemporal Optimization (John Duffy)
- Asset Pricing (John Duffy)
June 24: Introduction
11:00-11:30 |
Introduction of participants |
11:30-13:00 |
John Duffy: Overview of Macroeconomic Experiments |
Lunch | |
14:30-16:00 |
Rosemarie Nagel: Basic Experimental Methodology Key Readings: Nagel, Buehren and Frank (2017), Samuelson (2005), Smith (2002) |
16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
16:30-18:00 |
Participate in Experiment, Form Groups to work on Projects |
June 25 and 26: Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics Workshop (Bank of Canada)
June 27: Money and Banking
09:00-10:30 |
Jasmina Arifovic: "Bank runs and sunspots in the lab" |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-13:00 |
Group session: work on project |
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Lunch |
14:30-16:00 |
Gabriele Camera: "Monetary Experiments" |
16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
16:30-17:45 |
Participation in Experiment |
20:00 | Summer School Dinner. Restaurant EVOO Greek Kitchen (see location) |
June 28: Dynamic Optimization
09:00-10:30 |
John Duffy: "Consumption Smoothing" |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-13:00 |
Group session: work on project |
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Lunch |
14:30-16:00 |
Gabriele Camera: "Economic Growth Experiments" |
16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
16:30-17:45 |
Participation in Experiment. |
June 29: Monetary Policy Experiments
09:00-10:30 |
Luba Petersen: "Learning to Forecast Experiments in Macroeconomic and Finance" |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-13:00 |
Group session: work on project |
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Lunch |
14:30-16:00 |
Luba Petersen: "New Keynesian Production Economy Experiments” |
16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
16:30-17:45 |
Participation in Experiment. |
June 30: Asset Pricing
09:00-10:30 |
John Duffy: "Asset Pricing Experiments" |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-13:00 |
Group session: work on project |
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Lunch |
14:30-16:30 |
Student presentations |
Lecturers
Gabriele Camera
Gabriele Camera is Professor of Economics and Finance at the Economic Science Institute, Chapman University. He is also Professor of Macroeconomics at University of Bologna on a part-time basis. His research interest spans several areas, including economic theory, experimental economics, industrial organization, labor economics, macroeconomics and monetary economics.
Selected publications:
Camera G., and J. Kim. Dynamic directed search. Economic Theory, 62(1), pp. 131-154.
Camera, G., and A. Gioffrè (2014). Game-theoretic foundations of monetary equilibrium. Journal of Monetary Economics 63, 51–63.
Camera, G., and M. Casari (2014). The coordination value of monetary exchange: experimental evidence. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 6(1), 290–314.
Camera, G., and Y. Chien (2014). Understanding the distributional impact of long-run inflation. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 46(6), 1137–1170.
Camera, G., M. Casari, and M. Bigoni (2013). Money and trust among strangers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(37), 14889–14893.
John Duffy
John Duffy is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. Duffy’s research explores issues in macroeconomics and finance using models and laboratory experiments.
Selected publications:
"An Experimental Study of Bond Market Pricing" with Matthias Weber and Arthur Schram, Journal of Finance, 73, 2018, 1857-1892.
"Heterogeneous Agent Modeling: Experimental Evidence" with Jasmina Arifovic, in: C. Hommes and B. LeBaron (Eds.), Handbook of Computational Economics Volume 4, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2018, pp. 491-540.
"Macroeconomics: A Survey of Laboratory Research" in J.H. Kagel and A.E. Roth (Eds.), The Handbook of Experimental Economics Vol. 2, Princeton University Press, 2016, pp. 1-90.
"Gift Exchange versus Monetary Exchange: Theory and Evidence" with Daniela Puzzello, American Economic Review 104, 2014, 1735-1776.
Rosemarie Nagel
Rosemarie Nagel is ICREA research professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF-BGSE), research director of the experimental laboratory (LEEX-UPF), and member of CESifo. She earned her PhD in the European Doctoral Program at the University of Bonn (1994). Her research interest is in experimental economics, behavioural economics, and neuro economics.
Selected publications:
"The agencies method for coalition formation in experimental games," (with John Nash Jr, Axel Ockenfels, and Reinhard Selten), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Dec. 11, 2012, 109 (50), 20358-20363.
"Measuring Strategic Uncertainty in Coordination Games" (with Frank Heinemann and Peter Ockenfels), Review of Economic Studies, 76, 2009, pp. 181-221.
"Neural correlates of depth of strategic reasoning in medial prefrontal cortex" (with Giorgio Coricelli), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Economic Sciences,
PNAS June 9, 2009 vol. 106 no. 23 9163-9168
"One, Two, (Three), Infinity...: Newspaper and Lab Beauty-Contest Experiments", (with Antoni Bosch-Domènech, Jose García-Montalvo, and Albert Satorra), American Economic Review December 92 (5), 2002, pp 1687-1701.
Luba Petersen
Luba Petersen is Associate Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on expectations and decision making in macroeconomic environments. She develops procedures for implementing macroeconomies in controlled laboratory experiments to study policy-relevant questions. Her recent research investigates the ability of monetary policy and central bank communication to stabilize and guide expectations and markets. She is studying the determinants of effective communication to the public as well as financial markets. Another branch of her work explores how people reason through dynamic optimization problems and whether their ability can be improved through effective tools and education. She actively consults for the Bank of Canada on behavioural and experimental macroeconomic topics.
Selected Publications:
“Deflating asset price bubbles with leverage constraints and monetary policy” (with Guidon Fenig and Mariya Mileva), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2018), vol. 155, 1-27.
“Stabilizing expectations at the zero lower bound: Experimental evidence” (with Jasmina Arifovic), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2017), vol. 82, 21-43.
“Distributing scarce jobs and output: Experimental evidence on the dynamic effects of rationing” (with Guidon Fenig), Experimental Economics (2017), vol. 20, no.3., 707-735.
“Does Money Illusion Matter?: Comment” (with Abel Winn), American Economic Review (2014), vol. 104, no. 3, 1047-1062.
“Recent Developments in Experimental Macroeconomics” (with Robert Amano and Oleksiy Kryvtsov), Bank of Canada Review, Autumn 2014, 1-11.
Cars Hommes
Cars Hommes is professor of Economic Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF), an interdisciplinary research group on complex systems application in economics and finance. He is the author of the recent book Behavioral Rationality and Heterogeneous Expectations in Complex Economic Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2013. His current research focusses on behavioral and experimental macroeconomics & finance.
Selected publications:
Hommes, C.H. (2018), "Behavioral & experimental macroeconomics and policy analysis: a complex systems approach", ECB Working Paper, No. 2201, November 2018.
Anufriev, M. & Hommes, C.H. (2012), "Evolutionary selection of individual expectations and aggregate outcomes", American Economic Journal–Micro 4 (4), 35-64.
Anufriev, M., Hommes, C.H. and Makarewicz, T. (2019), "Simple forecasting heuristics that make us smart: evidence from different market experiments", Journal European Economic Association, forthcoming.
Hommes, C.H., Massaro, D. and Weber, M. (2019), "Monetary policy under behavioral expectations: theory and experiment", European Economic Review 118, 193-212.
Bao, T., Hennequin, M., Hommes, C.H. and Massaro, D. (2019), "Coordination on bubbles in large group asset pricing experiments", Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, forthcoming.
Course lectures
Gabriele Camera
- Monetary Experiments and Economic Growth Experiments:
The lecture is divided into two segments: Monetary Experiments and Economic Growth Experiments. At the start of each segment a brief theory part will develop a theoretical platform for monetary models (first segment of lecture) and classical growth models (second segment of lecture). The second segment will focus on models of representative agents and competitive equilibrium. The first segment will focus on models of strategic interaction and Nash equilibrium, which have been adopted to study a variety of topics including labor, IO, money and finance; this overlap opens the door to exploring related applications, such as cooperation, collusion, trust, equilibrium selection, coordination.
The main goals are: (1) To review basic techniques used in theoretical modeling of growth and of money; (2) To study how those models have been brought to the lab, (3) To understand the insights emerging from recent experimental applications. At the end of the course students will possess an expanded set of tools, which will be helpful to read critically the literature and to engage independent research.
The papers listed in the Literature below are in addition to relevant papers that are already covered elsewhere in the workshop.
- General literature
Bigoni, M., G. Camera, and M. Casari (2014). Money is more than memory. Economic Science Institute working paper # 14-17
Bigoni, M., G. Camera, and M. Casari (2015). Money and the scale of cooperation. Economic Science Institute working paper # 15-28
Camera, G., and M. Casari (2009). Cooperation among strangers under the shadow of the future. American Economic Review 99(3), 979–1005.
Camera, G., M. Casari, and M. Bigoni (2013). Experimental Markets with Frictions. Journal of Economic Surveys 27(3), 536–553.
Camera, G., M. Casari, and M. Bigoni (2013). Money and trust among strangers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(37), 14889-14893.
Camera, G., and M. Casari (2014). The coordination value of monetary exchange: experimental evidence. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 6(1), 290-314.
Diamond P., (1982). Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium. Journal of Political Economy 90, 881‑894.
Duffy, John (forthcoming). Macroeconomics: A Survey of Laboratory Research. In: Handbook of Experimental Economics, volume 2, John Kagel and Al Roth editors.
Ellison, Glenn (1994). Cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma with anonymous random matching. Review of Economic Studies, 61, 567-88.
Kandori, Michihiro (1992). Social norms and community enforcement. Review of Economic Studies, 59, 63-80.
Kocherlakota, N. (1998). Money is memory. Journal of Economic Theory 81, 232-251
Lei V., and C. Noussair (2002). An Experimental Test of an Optimal Growth Model. American Economic Review 92(3), 549-570.
Capra, M., C. Camerer, T. Tanaka, L. Feiler, V. Sovero, and C. Noussair (2009). The Impact of Simple Institutions in Experimental Economies with Poverty Traps. Economic Journal 119(539), 977 - 1009.
Smith, Vernon L. (1994). Economics in the Laboratory. Journal of Economic Perspectives 8(1), 113-131
Townsend, R. (1980). Models of Money with Spatially Separated Agents. In Models of Monetary Economies, J. Kareken and N. Wallace editors, p. 265-303
John Duffy
- Overview of Macroeconomic Experiments
This lecture will expose participants to the breadth of macroeconomic topics and questions that have been explored using laboratory methods. The aim of this lecture will be to stimulate thinking about ideas for new projects that build on what has already been done. In addition, participants will be encouraged to extend laboratory methods to macroeconomic models or questions that have not been previously addressed. Methodological issues that are particularly relevant to macroeconomic experiments, e.g., implementation of discounting and infinite horizons, will also be addressed.
- Readings:
Duffy, J. (2016), "Macroeconomics: A Survey of Laboratory Research" in J.H. Kagel and A.E. Roth (Eds.), The Handbook of Experimental Economics Vol. 2, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, pp 1-90.
Consumption Smoothing and Asset Pricing
In this lecture we will consider the experimental evidence on intertemporal consumption and savings decisions. In particular, we ask whether agents intertemporally smooth consumption as predicted by standard lifecycle models. We will explore some behavioral explanations for departures from this rational choice prediction. In addition, we will look at the pricing of assets which play an important role in intertemporal consumption smoothing. We will explore several experimental tests of asset pricing models and explanations for why asset prices often appear to depart from fundamental values.
- Readings:
Ballinger, T.P., M.G Palumbo, and N.T. Wilcox, “Precautionary Saving and Social learning Across Generations: An Experiment,” The Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (490), 920–947.
Brown, Alexander L, Zhikang Eric Chua, and Colin Camerer, “Learning and Visceral Temptation in Dynamic Savings Experiments,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124 (1), 197–231.
Carbone, E. and J.D. Hey, “The effect of Unemployment on Consumption: an Experimental Analysis,” The Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (497), 660–683.
Duffy, J. and Y. Li “Lifecycle Consumption Under Different Income Profiles: Experimental Evidence” working paper, UC Irvine, 2018.
V.L. Smith, G.L. Suchanek and A.W. Williams, “Bubbles, Crashes, and Endogenous Expectations in Experimental Spot Asset Markets”, Econometrica 56, 1988, 1119-1151.
V. Lei, C.N. Noussair and C.R. Plott, “Nonspeculative Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets: Lack of Common Knowledge of Rationality vs. Actual Irrationality,” Econometrica 69, 2001, 831-859.
Michael Kirchler Jürgen Huber Thomas Stöckl, “Thar She Bursts: Reducing Confusion Reduces Bubbles”, American Economic Review, 2012, 865-83.
Bao, T., J. Duffy and C. Hommes, “Learning, Forecasting and Optimizing: An Experimental Study” European Economic Review, Vol. 61, 2013, 186-204.
Crockett, S., Duffy J. and Y. Izhakian , “An Experimental Test of the Lucas Asset Pricing Model” forthcoming in the Review of Economic Studies.
Luba Petersen
Monetary Policy Experiments
In this lecture, we will explore how laboratory experiments can be used to inform the design and implementation of monetary policy. We will begin by reviewing the various approaches to studying the effects of monetary policy (theory, computational, empirics, experiments), and considering their strengths and weaknesses. Different experimental approaches to studying monetary policy will be considered (individual choice experiments, coordination experiments involving expectations and real decisions), followed by a survey of the literature and findings. An important question is: why does monetary policy not work better? Are there cognitive limitations that inhibit the public's ability to respond to monetary policy? Or does the weak
transmission of monetary policy stem from an inability to coordinate. We will consider empirical and experimental evidence on the transmission of monetary policy, and possible directions forward for research.
- Theory
Walsh, C. E. (2017). Monetary theory and policy. MIT Press.
Woodford, M. (2011). Interest and prices: Foundations of a theory of monetary policy. Princeton University Press.
- Experiments
Adam K. (2007), “Experimental Evidence on the Persistence of Output and Inflation,” Economic Journal 117, 603–635.
Arifovic, J. and L. Petersen (2017). “Stabilizing expectations at the zero lower bound: Experimental evidence”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 82, 21-43.
Arifovic J. and T. J. Sargent (2003), “Laboratory Experiments with an Expectational Phillips Curve,“ in D. E. Altig, and B. D. Smith (eds.), Evolution and Procedures in Central Banking,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Arifovic J. and J. H. Jiang (2013), "Experimental Evidence of Sunspot Bank Runs," mimeo Bank of Canada.
Assenza, T., Heemeijer, P., Hommes, C., & Massaro, D. (2013). Individual expectations and aggregate macro behavior.
Bernasconi M. and O. Kirchkamp (2000), “Why do monetary policies matter? An experimental study of saving and inflation in an overlapping generations model,” Journal of Monetary Economics 46, 315‐ 343.
Blinder A. S. and J. Morgan (2005), “Are Two Heads Better than One? Monetary Policy by Committee,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 37, 789‐812. Blinder A. S. and J. Morgan (2008), “Leadership in Groups: A Monetary Policy Experiment,” International Journal of Central Banking 4(4), 117‐150.
Bosch‐Domenech A. and J. Silvestre (1997), “Credit Constraints in a General Equilibrium: Experimental Results,” Economic Journal 107, 1445‐1464.
Cornand, C., & M'baye, C. K. (2016). Does inflation targeting matter? an experimental investigation. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 1-40.
Engle‐Warnick J. and Turdaliev N. (2010), “An Experimental Test of Taylor‐Type Rules with Inexperienced Central Bankers,” Experimental Economics 13, 146‐166.
Fehr E. and J.‐R. Tyran (2001), “Does Money Illusion Matter?,” American Economic Review 91, 1239‐ 1262.
Fehr E. and J.R. Tyran (2005), “Individual Irrationality and Aggregate Outcomes," Journal of Economic Perspectives 19, 43‐66.
Fehr E. and J.‐R. Tyran (2008), “Limited Rationality and Strategic Interaction: The Impact of the Strategic Environment on Nominal Inertia,” Econometrica 76, 353‐394.
Fehr E. and J.‐R. Tyran (2014), “Does Money Illusion Matter?: Reply,” American Economic Review 104, 1063‐1071.
Fenig, G., Mileva, M., & Petersen, L. (2018). Deflating asset price bubbles with leverage constraints and monetary policy. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 155, 1-27.
Fischbacher, U., Hens, T., & Zeisberger, S. (2013). The impact of monetary policy on stock market bubbles and trading behavior: Evidence from the lab. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37(10), 2104-2122.
Kryvtsov O and L. Petersen (2013), “Expectations and Monetary Policy: Experimental Evidence,” Bank of Canada Working Paper.
Lian P. and C. Plott (1998), “General Equilibrium, Markets, Macroeconomics and Money in a Laboratory Experimental Environment,” Economic Theory 12, 21‐75.
Noussair C. N., D. Pfajfar and J. Zsiros (2014), “Frictions, Persistence, and Central Bank Policy in an Experimental Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Economy,” in J. Duffy (eds.), “Experiments in Macroeconomics”, Research in Experimental Economics 17, Emerald Press.
Petersen L. and A. Winn (2014), “Does money illusion matter?: Comment,” American Economic Review 104, 1047‐1062.
Pfajfar, D., & Žakelj, B. (2016). Inflation expectations and monetary policy design: Evidence from the laboratory. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 1-41.
Rosemarie Nagel
- Methodology
This lecture introduces the methods of experimental economics. We will discuss what is an economic experiment (field vs lab experiment), the different areas in experimental economics and behavioral economics, the link between experimental economics, theory and empirical work, important design issues, and the link between micro and macro experiments. All this will be discussed with the classical Keynesian Beauty Contest game. This introduction is meant to give a quick introduction to those who have never followed an experimental economic course. Prior to the course we will send the participants of the summer school some classical experiments which they can do online.
- General literature :
Akerlof, G.A. (2002), "Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior, "American Economic Review," 92. 411-433.
Handbook of Experimental Economics, Vol1 (1995), Vol2 (2016), editors J. Kagel &A. Roth
Camerer, C. (2003), "Behavioral Game Theory," Princeton University Pre2016ss
Friedman, D. and Sunder, S. (1994), Experimental Methods. Cambridge Univ. Press: Chapters 1-2: 1-20.
Plott, C. and Smith, V. (2003), Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, North-Holland, Amsterdam.
Smith, V.L. (2002), "Method in Experiment: Rhetoric and Reality." Experimental Economics 5(2): 91-110.
Special issue (2005), Experiment, Theory, World: A Symposium on the Role of Experiments in Economics. Journal of Economic Methodology 12(2).
Papers related to the Beauty Contest game
Camerer, C. F. (2003). Chapter 5, Dominance Solvable Games. Behavioral game theory: Experiments on strategic interaction. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Vincent P. Crawford, Miguel A. Costa-Gomes, and Nagore Iriberri (2012) "Structural Models of Nonequilibrium Strategic Thinking: Theory, Evidence, and Applications," forthcoming in Journal of Economic Literature. http://weber.ucsd.edu/~vcrawfor/CGCIJEL4April12
Antoni Bosch-Domènech , Jose García-Montalvo, Rosemarie Nagel, and Albert Satorra, "One, Two, (Three), Infinity...: Newspaper and Lab Beauty-Contest Experiments", American Economic Review December 92 (5), 2002, pp 1687-1701.
Giorgio Coricelli, Rosemarie Nagel, "Neural correlates of depth of strategic reasoning in medial prefrontal cortex" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Economic Sciences, PNAS June 9, 2009 vol. 106.
Nagel Rosemarie (1995), "Unraveling in Guessing Games: An Experimental Study." American Economic Review 85,5 1313-1326.
Cars Hommes
- Learning to Forecast Experiments in Macro and Finance
- Literature:
Hommes, C.H. (2018), Behavioral & experimental macroeconomics and policy analysis: a complex systems approach, ECB Working Paper, No. 2201, November 2018.
Anufriev, M. & Hommes, C.H. (2012), Evolutionary selection of individual expectations and aggregate outcomes, American Economic Journal–Micro 4 (4), 35-64.
Anufriev, M., Hommes, C.H. and Makarewicz, T. (2019), Simple forecasting heuristics that make us smart: evidence from different market experiments, Journal European Economic Association, forthcoming.
Hommes, C.H., Massaro, D. and Weber, M. (2019), Monetary policy under behavioral expectations: theory and experiment, European Economic Review 118, 193-212.
Bao, T., Hennequin, M., Hommes, C.H. and Massaro, D. (2019), Coordination on bubbles in large group asset pricing experiments, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, forthcoming.
How to participate
To participate in our Summer School, please do the following steps.
Application - Deadline: April 1st, 2019
- Send to [email protected] one attached file: File should be your Curriculum Vitae in a email with the following subject: BLEESS19_cv_firstname_last_name.
- Fill the following application form. You will see a confirmation message after submitting the form. Before, remember to send your curriculum to [email protected]
- Letter of Recommendation:
Please ask the person who gives you the letter of recommendation to send it as an attached PDF document to the address [email protected], with the following subject:
BLEESS19_Letter_firstname_lastname
Please contact us at [email protected] for another way for sending us the letter, such as ordinary mail or fax, but we strongly encourage to use the e-mail and PDF option to speed up the process.
Registration
Students who have been accepted for the school in the first round will be informed by April 15 and have three options:
- Students who still plan to participate must register between April 15, 2019 and April 30, 2019. Together with the registration, a registration fee of 300 Euros/350 USD /450 CAD needs to be paid (see below).
- Students who no longer plan to participate should inform us as soon as possible, in any case before April 30, 2019.
- Students who need accommodation must make a reservation at the residence announced in the acceptance letter until May 13, 2019.
NOTE: The application for the Summer School is closed.
Accomodation
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The 12th BESLab Experimental Economics Summer School in Macroeconomics
June 24-30, 2019
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Address: 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canadà
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