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Academic Conference in Honor of Ernst Fehr

This two-day academic conference in honor of Ernst Fehr will take place in the Aula (Main Auditorium KOL-G-201) of the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich.

Program for Friday, June 19

08:30

Doors Open & Registration

09:00

Session 1: Cultural and Social Forces in Markets and Organizations

  • Cultural and Normative Origins of Markets
    (Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University)
  • Social Forces and Market Outcomes
    (Leo Bursztyn, University of Chicago)
  • Social Preferences and Social Norms in Developing Economies
    (Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley)

Chair: Roberto A. Weber

10:50

Coffee Break – Lichthof (Atrium)

11:20

Session 2: Determinants of Social Preferences

  • How the Social Environment Affects Children’s Social Preferences
    (Armin Falk, University of Bonn)
  • The Influence of Self-Governance and Market Interactions on Social Preferences
    (Devesh Rustagi, University of Warwick)

Chair: Björn Bartling

12:30

Lunch – Lichthof (Atrium)

13:45

Session 3: The Prevalence and Predictive Power of Social Preferences

  • Social Preferences and Negative Externalities
    (Florian Schneider, University of Copenhagen)
  • The Prevelence and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences
    (Julien Senn,  University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  • The Role of Social Preferences in Sustainable Investments
    (Paul Smeets, University of Amsterdam)
Chair: Ingvild Almås

15:30

Coffee Break – Lichthof (Atrium)

16:00

Session 4: Social Preferences and Climate Economics

  • Social Preferences and the Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    (Klaus Schmidt, LMU Munich)
  • Climate Justice 
    (Abhijit Banerjee, University of Zurich / MIT)
Chair: David Yanagizawa-Drott

17:15

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Program for Saturday, June 20

08:30

Doors Open & Registration

09:00

Session 5: Social Preferences in Organizations and Labor Markets

  • Social Preferences and Social Norms in Organizations and Labor Markets
    (Zoe Cullen, Harvard University)
  • CEO Prosociality and Layoffs
    (Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley)
  • Social Preferences, Sorting, and ‘Good Work'
    (Roberto A. Weber, University of Zurich)

Chair: Nick Netzer

10:50

Coffee Break – Lichthof (Atrium)

11:20

Session 6: Equality of Opportunity and Unfair Inequality

  • How to Measure Unfair Inequalities
    (Paul Hufe, University of Bristol)
  • Fairness in a World of Unequal Opportunity
    (Alexander Cappelen, Norwegian School of Economics)

Chair: Ronak Jain

12:30

Lunch – Obere Mensa (Upper Cafeteria)

13:45

Session 7: Welfare Economics, Image Concerns, Incomplete Contracts

  • Consensual Virtues, Divisive Values: How Image Concerns Shape Prosocial Behavior and the Quest for Common Ground
    (Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics)
  • Implications of Social Preferences for Welfare Economics
    (Maya Eden, University of Zurich)
  • Social Preferences and Incomplete Contracts
    (Oliver Hart, Harvard University)

Chair: Joachim Voth

15:30

Coffee Break – Lichthof (Atrium)

16:00

Panel Discussion: Important Unresolved Questions and How to Address Them?

  • Leo Bursztyn (University of Chicago)
  • Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
  • Roberto A. Weber (University of Zurich)
  • Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)

Chair: Tore Ellingsen

17:15 End

 

Registration and Conference Costs

Attendance at the conference is open to invited guests and free of charge.

Contact

If you have any further questions, please contact Ayana Züger.

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