Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

An online seminar series on Experimental and Behavioural Economics organized by the Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) of the School of Economics at The University of Queensland.

Our seminars take place fortnightly via Zoom on Wednesdays at 10 am or 5 pm (AEST), depending on whether the guest speaker is streaming from US/Australia or Europe respectively.

Seminars consist of a 60-minute presentation followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.

Local time for seminars

You can check the corresponding times for your own time zone using the following links for each session: 10am, 5pm.

How to register

Clicking the button below gives you the option to register for: (i) all seminars (ii) seminars that take place at 10am or 5pm, or (iii) individual seminars.

Email invitations with a ZOOM link to the event will be sent 48 hours before each seminar.

If you wish to attend an upcoming seminar within the 48-hour window, please drop an email to Lionel Page.

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Contacts

If you are interested in presenting at a future seminar please email Lionel Page.

lionel.page@uq.edu.au

Past sessions

Multidimensional Screening with Rich Consumer Data

24 April 2024 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Mira Frick, Yale University

Continuous Gender Identity and Economic Decision Making

10 April 2024 5:00pm–6:15pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Robert Weber, University of Zurich

Decomposing the Winner’s Curse

27 March 2024 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Emanuel Vespa, UC San Diego

Intelligence, Wealth of Nations and Democracy: A look at UK data

13 March 2024 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota

Heterogeneous Tastes and Social (Mis)Learning

28 February 2024 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Ben Bushong, Michigan State University

On the Benefits of Robo-advice in Financial Markets

23 February 2024 11:00am–12:15pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Simon Weidenholzer, University of Essex

Disentangling Exploration from Exploitation

15 November 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Leeat Yariv, Princeton University

Improving Information Acquisition in School Choice

25 October 2023 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Dr Siqi Pan, The University of Melbourne

The Complexity of Economic Decisions

18 October 2023 9:00am–10:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Xaiver Gabaix, Harvard University

Taxing Externalities Without Hurting the Poor

4 October 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Philipp Strack, Yale University

Deciphering Suboptimal Updating: Structure, Sequencing, and Complexity

20 September 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Marina Agranov, Caltech

Contests with Negative Prize: An Experimental Investigation

6 September 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Dr Jingjing Zhang, RMIT University

Using Arguments to Persuade

23 August 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by A/Prof Stephanie Wang, University of Pittsburgh

The social contract in miniature: Virtual Bargaining and the theory of joint action, meaning and the foundations of culture

9 August 2023 5:00pm–6:30pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Nick Chater, The University of Warwick

Macroeconomic Expectations and Limited Awareness

26 July 2023 5:00pm–6:30pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Nicola Pavoni, Università Bocconi

The Resolution of Uncertainty in the Value and Probability Domains

12 July 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Andrew Schotter

Deception by Design

28 June 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Lauren Willis, Loyola Law School

Inertial Updating

14 June 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Dr Matthew Kovach, Virginia Tech

Repeated Games with Many Players

31 May 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Alex Wolitzky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Repugnant transactions: The role of agency and severe consequences

17 May 2023 5:00pm–6:30pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Professor Dorothea Kübler, Technical University of Berlin.

It Makes a Village: Allomaternal Care and Prosociality

3 May 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Professor Alessandra Cassar, University of San Fransisco.

Choice Overload

19 April 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Associate Professor Mark Dean, Columbia University.

Endogenous Risk Attitudes

5 April 2023 5:00pm–6:30pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Professor Nick Netzer from the University of Zurich.

News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions

22 March 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Professor David Hirschleifer, University of Southern California.

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The Multivariate Heterogeneous Preference Estimator for Switching Multiple Price Lists

8 March 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Peter Moffatt, University of East Anglia.

Improving Human Deception Detection Using Algorithmic Feedback

22 February 2023 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Marta Serra-Garcia, University of California, San Diego.

Equity Concerns are Narrowly Framed

26 October 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Judd B. Kessler, The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania

Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions

12 October 2022 5:00pm–6:30pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Stefan Trautmann, Tilburg University

BESC Seminar Series

12 October 2022 5:00am–6:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Stefan Trautmann, Heidelberg University.

Quota Rules and Holdout: An Experiment / Temperature and Preferences: Global Evidence

21 September 2022 10:00am–11:00am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Dr Zachary Breig, The University of Queensland / Dr Andrea La Nauze, The University of Queensland

BESC Seminar Series

14 September 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Ben Bushong, Michigan State University

Optimal Relay Strategy - determining whether order matters in relay swimming / Developing The Context of Information in Complex Projects

7 September 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Sheryl Lim, The University of Queensland / Chris Shadforth, The University of Queensland

BESC Seminar Series

7 September 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Sheryl

The Impact of Consequence Information on Insurance Choice

31 August 2022 10:00am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

BESC Seminar Series

31 August 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The Psychology of Coercion Failure: How Reactance Explains Resistance to Threats

24 August 2022 12:00pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by A/Prof Dan Altman, Georgia State University

BESC Seminar Series

24 August 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Dan Altman (GSU)

Distinguishing Common Ratio Preferences from Common Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks

17 August 2022 10:00am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Charles D. Sprenger, California Institute of Technology

BESC Seminar Series

17 August 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Charles Sprenger, California Institute of Technology

BESC Seminar Series

5 August 2022 3:45pm–4:45pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Dorothea Kübler, Technical University of Berlin

Communication, Perception and Strategic Obfuscation

3 August 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Kareen Rozen, Brown University.

Communication, Perception and Strategic Obfuscation

3 August 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Kareen Rozen, Brown University.

BESC Seminar Series

27 July 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Hao Wan and Greg Levy from University of Queensland.

The Large Number of Incompatible Choices Implied by Representing Risk Through Curvature

15 June 2022 10:00am–11:00am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by A/Prof Ned Augenblick, University of California, Berkeley

The Large Number of Incompatible Choices Implied by Representing Risk Through Curvature (with Seung-Keun Martinez)

15 June 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by A/Prof Ned Augenblick from University of California, Berkeley.

Experimental Auctions with Securities

8 June 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Allan Hernandez-Chanto from The University of Queensland.

Experimental Auctions with Securities

8 June 2022 10:00am–11:00am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Allan Hernandez-Chanto, The University of Queensland

Which Performs Best? Comparing Discrete Choice Models

1 June 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Professor Geoffroy de Clippel from Brown University.

Which Performs Best? Comparing Discrete Choice Models

1 June 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Prof Geoffroy de Clippel, Brown University

Collusion in the Presence of an Active Antitrust Authority

25 May 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by James Li from The University of Queensland.

Correlated Equilibria and Forecasts based on Naïve Play in Hawk Dove Games (joint with Tridib Sharma (ITAM) and Radovan Vadovic (Carleton))

18 May 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Tim Cason from Purdue University.

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Motivations for Indirect Reciprocity

11 May 2022 10:00am–11:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Kieran Gibson from The University of Queensland

Encouraging Engagement in Classroom Learning: A Field Experiment

4 May 2022 5:00am–6:30am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by A/Prof Tracy Xiao Liu from Tsinghua University

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BESC seminar presented by Matthias Sutter

2 June 2021 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

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Belief elicitation: Limiting truth telling with information on incentives

5 May 2021 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

BESC seminar presented by Lise Vesterlund

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Identifying habits in field data using machine learning

7 April 2021 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology

BESC seminar presented by Drew Fudenberg

3 March 2021 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Drew Fudenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BESC seminar presented by Michael Price

3 February 2021 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Professor Michael Price, Australian National University

Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy

13 January 2021 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Yan Chen, University of Michigan

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Presented by Axel Ockenfels, University of Cologne

Bargaining for others

21 October 2020 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Ernan Haruvy, University of Texas at Dallas

Mixed strategies and preference for randomization in games with ambiguity averse agents.

7 October 2020 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Evan Calford, Australian National University

How to Protect against Zero Intelligence: Idiosyncratic Signals in Beauty Contest Games

24 September 2020 5:00pm–6:15pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Rosemarie Nagel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Barcelona and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

BESC seminar with Steffen Huck

8 September 2020 5:00pm–6:15pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Steffen Huck, WZB Berlin Social Science Center & University College London

Which scientific results can we trust? Replications, prediction markets and surveys

20 August 2020 5:00pm–6:15pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Anna Dreber, Stockholm School of Economics

How market prices react to information: Evidence from a natural experiment

6 August 2020 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Lionel Page, University of Technology Sydney

BESC seminar with John Duffy

23 July 2020 10:00am–11:15am

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by John Duffy, University of California, Irvine

Predicting social tipping and norm change in controlled experiments

9 July 2020 5:00pm–6:15pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Nikos Nikiforakis, New York University, Abu Dhabi

Teaching Norms in the Streets

25 June 2020 5:00pm–6:15pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Marie Claire Villeval, CNRS & Gate-Lab

Rational cooperation in finitely repeated games

4 June 2020 5:00pm–6:15pm

in Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences (CUBES) e-seminars

Presented by Maria Bigoni, University of Bologna