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Deadline Extension until April 30th: Call for Proposals to Organize SABE Session at the ASSA 2021 in Chicago or SEA 2020 in New Orleans

Dear colleagues,

we would like to announce that the deadline for submitting proposals to organize the SABE session at the Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) meeting in 2021 or the Southern Economic Association (SEA) meeting in 2020 has been both extended until April 30, 2020. See below for the updated call for proposals.

Best regards,
Behnud

Dear colleagues,

The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) is inviting proposals to organize the SABE session at the Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) meeting in 2021 or Southern Economic Association (SEA) meeting in 2020.

The ASSA is a three-day meeting organized by the American Economic Association (AEA) in conjunction with 58 associations from related disciplines. In 2021 the meeting will take place in Chicago, IL (January 3-5, Hyatt Regency Chicago). The ASSA meeting is very prestigious and therefore of significant importance to SABE. Previous SABE sessions at the ASSA can be found here: 2018, 2019, 2020.

The 90th Annual Meeting of the SEA will be held in New Orleans, LA at the New Orleans Marriott, November 21-23, 2020 (Saturday to Monday). The Southern Economic Association is one of the oldest economics associations in the United States, dating back to a conference held in Atlanta in November 1928.

If you are interested in organizing the SABE Session with the focus on Behavioral Economics, please fill out the Session Proposal Application and send it along with a PDF version of your CV to assa@sabeconomics.org by April 30, 2020.

Please note that priority for organizing the ASSA session of SABE will be given to applicants who have not done so in the past 3 years.

In addition, while a tentative proposal is generally acceptable, a detailed, confirmed, and well thought-out proposal is appreciated, and will be preferred over a more tentative proposal, all things equal.

Applicants will be notified of the outcome no later than May 14, 2020.

Please forward this email to scholars who might be interested in this call for proposals.

Looking forward to your application

Shabnam Mousavi         Alexis Belianin
SABE President               SABE Executive Director

Published on April 3, 2020 in Past News Comments (0)

Deadline Extension: Annual SABE Conference 2020 (Moscow, Russia, July 22-26, 2020)

Dear colleagues,

The year of 2020 has offered to all of us an unusual challenge of global coronovirus infection, which affected literally all aspects of human life. Academic activities are not an exception: many scientists have already had to miss scheduled research and seminar visits, and saw many academic meetings cancelled.

SABE shares these concerns, and supports all measures necessary to fight pandemic spread of coronovirus: : public health remains of primary importance to all. We urge all members of our international community to be vigilant, and take all necessary precautionary measures for yourself and your relatives.
At the same time, we do not believe it’s a right time to break our academic connections, including our major meeting: the 2020 Annual conference to be held on July 22-26 in Moscow, Russia. At the moment, the country undertakes rather serious measures, including restrictions on public meetings applied till the end of June. While it is difficult to foresee what will happen then, so far there are good chances that situation will gradually improve, which will allow to conduct the SABE2020 Annual meeting as scheduled.

But we want to say more. The challenge of the COVID-2019 should be responded not by segregation, but by the unification of global communities, including that of SABE. We are committed to bring people together, and will do everything to facilitate our meeting of leading behavioural researchers from all over the world to share their new ideas, subject them to scientific discussion, and productive development of tools and mechanisms to meet global challenges. With this aim, and in order to give all interested academics the chance to be involved in this process, we extend the deadline for proposals submissions to the #SABE2020 till Monday April 6. We shall monitor the situation, and shall inform all members of our community about further developments. In case of any real danger, we will be working towards organization of our conference in online format, as a series of virtual meetings accessible to anyone around the globe.

Take care, and let us stay in touch

The #SABE2020 organizing team

Published on March 15, 2020 in News Comments (0)

Call for Proposals to Organize SABE Session at the ASSA 2021 in Chicago or SEA 2020 in New Orleans

Dear colleagues,

The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) is inviting proposals to organize the SABE session at the Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) meeting in 2021 or Southern Economic Association (SEA) meeting in 2020.

The ASSA is a three-day meeting organized by the American Economic Association (AEA) in conjunction with 58 associations from related disciplines. In 2021 the meeting will take place in Chicago, IL (January 3-5, Hyatt Regency Chicago). The ASSA meeting is very prestigious and therefore of significant importance to SABE. Previous SABE sessions at the ASSA can be found here: 2018, 2019, 2020.

The 90th Annual Meeting of the SEA will be held in New Orleans, LA at the New Orleans Marriott, November 21-23, 2020 (Saturday to Monday). The Southern Economic Association is one of the oldest economics associations in the United States, dating back to a conference held in Atlanta in November 1928.

If you are interested in organizing the SABE Session with the focus on Behavioral Economics, please fill out the Session Proposal Application and send it along with a PDF version of your CV to assa@sabeconomics.org by March 30, 2020.

Please note that priority for organizing the ASSA session of SABE will be given to applicants who have not done so in the past 3 years.

In addition, while a tentative proposal is generally acceptable, a detailed, confirmed, and well thought-out proposal is appreciated, and will be preferred over a more tentative proposal, all things equal.

Applicants will be notified of the outcome no later than April 15, 2020.

Please forward this email to scholars who might be interested in this call for proposals.

Looking forward to your application

Shabnam Mousavi         Alexis Belianin
SABE President               SABE Executive Director

Published on March 9, 2020 in Past News Comments (0)

SABE-TFI Impact Essay Award 2019

This award is established to promote socially applicable results emanating from students’ research. We are grateful to all students who took the time to translate their findings into an accessible essay for this purpose, a trend that this award aims at expanding early on along the academic career path.

It is with pleasure that we announce those submissions that are chosen to be recognized for 2019:

HONORABLE MENTION for laudable conduct of research:
Mesfin G. Genie, “To wait or not to wait: Preference heterogeneity in kidney transplantation“

SECOND PLACE for tackling sensitive large-scale topics:
Domenica Romeo, “Assessing relational coordination in the health sector: an experimental approach”
Feidhlim McGowan, “Why accumulation bias matters for financial decision making?”

FIRST PLACE for relatable focus on financial wellbeing
Rolando Gonzalez Martinez, “Enhancing well-being at the bottom-of-the-pyramid with Nano-finance plus”

Congratulations to award recipients from the evaluation committee,

Gerrit Antonides, Ian Bright, Pete Lunn, and Shabnam Mousavi.

Published on December 23, 2019 in News Comments (0)

In Memory of John Tomer (1942-2019)

Dear SABE community,

It is with a heavy heart that we write to share with you the sad news that John Tomer the founding father of SABE has passed away and was cremated last week.

John made huge personal sacrifices for SABE and for behavioral economic research. SABE recognized his services in Dublin last September at our IAREP -SABE conference with a lifetime dedication award.

He played tennis until the end and was working on a new book. His humility, persistence and engaging spirit will stay on with us as we move our society forward to achieve what John envisioned and pursued over the past four decades.

Shabnam Mousavi
SABE President

Published on December 17, 2019 in News Comments (0)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Funding for Workshops 2020

Dear SABE Members,

The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) is happy to announce that we will devote 7,500 USD to fund workshops on Behavioral Economics, to be held in 2020.

Proposals (2-3 pages) should include:

  • Organizers and host institution
  • Tentative guest speakers
  • Dates, venue, etc.
  • The link to the offical website of the workshop (if available)
  • Amount of money requested and rationale (SABE will fund no more than USD 3,000 per workshop)
  • Specify the activities that will benefit PhD students

Timeline of the call:

  • Proposals should be submitted to workshops@sabeconomics.org no later than December 15
  • Successful applicants will be contacted no later than January 15

Further Information:

  • All information can be retrieved in the attached file
  • For informal inquiries, please also use the above email

Also, please forward the call to everyone who might be interested.

Looking forward to your proposals

Shabnam Mousavi
SABE President

Alexis Belianin
SABE Executive Director

Behnud Mir Djawadi
SABE Secretary

Axel Sonntag
SABE workshop coordinator

Published on November 19, 2019 in Past News Comments (0)

Impact essay award for students: a joint SABE-TFI initiative

In line with the mission and vision of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) and in collaboration with the Think Forward Initiative (TFI) a student essay award is initiated to promote the engagement of advanced students in societal enhancement activities, and to disseminate their relevant research at its early stages to the society. This SABE-TFI award intends to encourage junior researchers to write a short IMPACT ESSAY of 1,000-1,200 words based on their academic research that is accessible to general public, and to help them promote their work beyond academia.

Published on August 29, 2019 in Past News Comments (0)