2008-2009 Seminar Schedule

Tuesday September 23, 2008
Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)
Title: The Rationality of Heuristics: Ignoring Information for Better Decisions
Location: Westminster Business School Hogg lecture theatre
Time: 17h15-19h

Tuesday September 30, 2008
Sujoy Mukerji (Oxford)
Title: Ambiguity and the Historical Equity Premium
Location: London Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday October 7, 2008
Georg Weizsacker (LSE)
Title: Do we follow others when we should? A simple test of rational expectations
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday October 14, 2008
Morten Lau (Newcastle University)
Title: Dynamic Choice and Dual Criteria Decisions
Location: Westminster Business School
Time: 17h30-19h

Tuesday October 21, 2008
Manel Baucells (IEBE, Barcelona)
Title: The mathematics of happiness
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday October 28, 2008
Philippe Delquie (Insead)
Title: Expectations, Disappointment, and a Behavioral Measure of Risk
Location: Westminster Business School
Time: 17h30-19h

Tuesday November 4, 2008
Peter Moffatt (East Anglia)
Title: A meta analysis of the preference reversal phenomenon
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday November 11, 2008
Nick Chater (UCL)
Title: The instability of utility
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday November 25, 2008
Aldo Rustichini (Cambridge)
Title: Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior and Job Attachment
Location: London Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday December 2, 2008
Lionel Page (Westminster)
Title: Are prediction markets well calibrated decision tools?
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday December 9, 2008
Neil Stewart (Warwick)
Title: A decision-by-sampling account of decision under risk
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Monday January 19, 2009
Robin Hogarth (Pompeu Fabra)
Title: Entrepreneurial Success and failure: confidence and fallible judgment
Location: London Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday January 27, 2009
Elke Weber (Columbia)
Title: “When do we want it?” “Now!” A Query Theory process account of Intertemporal Choice
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday February 3, 2009
Peter Wakker (Erasmus University)
Title: Making the Rich Domain of Ambiguity Tractable for Applications
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday February 10, 2009
Matthew Rablen (Westminster)
Title: Relativity, Rank and the Utility of Income
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday February 17, 2009
Jean Pierre Benoit (LBS)
Title: Overconfidence
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday February 24, 2009
Rafal Bogacz (Bristol)
Title: Do humans select the speed-accuracy tradeoff maximizing reward
rate?
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday March 3, 2009
Rosemarie Nagel (Pompeu Fabra)
Title: Choice overload and neural signals of choice-set value from fMRI
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday March 10, 2009
Eric Eyser (LSE)
Title: Naive Herding
Location: London Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday March 17, 2009
Stefen Huck (UCL)
Title: Field Experiments on Fundraising
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday March 24, 2009
John Coates (Cambridge)
Title: Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday March 31, 2009
Graham Loomes (UEA)
Title: Modelling Noise and Imprecision in Individual Decisions
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday April 7, 2009
Jean Marc Tallon (PSE)
Title: An experimental investigation of imprecision attitude and its relation
with risk attitude and impatience
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday April 14, 2009
Drazen Prelec (MIT)
Title:  Bayesian truth serum
Location: Westminster Business School
17h30-19h

Tuesday April 21, 2009
Daniele Paserman (Boston University)
Title: Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena
Location: Westminster Business School
17h00-18h30