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IAREP/SABE Summer School Funding: Call for applications

Call for organizing a IAREP/SABE Summer School on Behavioral Economics and Economic Psychology

IAREP and SABE dedicate up to 6,000 Euro to sponsor a joint Summer School, to take place in 2018. Instructors in the Summer School should strike a fair balance between economists and psychologists. The Summer School typically hosts about 20 PhD students and early-career faculty, also about equally divided between the two disciplines. The Summer School is expected to cover one week of instruction and to be scheduled during summer months. We encourage applicants to apply for matching funding from other sources.

IAREP or SABE members who are interested in organizing a Summer School are requested to submit their proposal to Behnud Mir Djawadi (behnud.mir.djawadi@uni-paderborn.de) and Cäzilia Loibl (loibl.3@osu.edu) by December 20, 2017. Both organizations will then evaluate any proposals received.

Please include in your proposal:
* Title of Summer School
* Names of organizers
* Location and dates of Summer School
* Target audience and how it will be recruited
* Learning objectives and outline of content to be taught
* Names of presenters
* Amount requested
* Sources and amounts of matching funds

Published on October 17, 2017 in Past News Comments (0)

SABE-IAREP 2018, London July 19-22

Keep the dates: July 19 to 22, 2018

Venue: Middlesex University London (getting to Hendon Campus)

  • Website: coming soon
  • Call for papers will be released in October
  • Boat (Friday 20): Thames Leasure
  • Hotels: Hendon Hall (about £120), Holiday in at Brent Cross (about £120), Hall of Resident (low price), more coming.

Confirmed guest speakers:

 

Published on August 7, 2017 in Past News Comments (0)

Call for Applications: Funding for Workshops

Dear colleagues,

The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) is happy to announce that we will devote 5,000 USD to fund workshops on behavioral economics, to be held in 2018.

Proposals (2-3 pages) should include:

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

Timeline of the call:

  • Proposals should be submitted to workshops@sabeconomics.org no later than September 30
  • Successful applicants will be contacted no later than November 15

For informal inquiries, please also use the above email.

Please forward the call to everyone who might be interested.

Looking forward to your proposals.

 

Pablo Branas-Garza
SABE President

Behnud Mir Djawadi
SABE Secretary

Alexis Belianin, Shabnam Mousavi, Axel Sonntag
SABE workshop coordinators

Published on July 24, 2017 in Past News Comments (2)

CfP JBEP Special Issue on “Nudging and Heuristics”

Traditionally economics has assumed that individuals are (perfectly) rational, consciously calculating benefits and costs before making a decision. Behavioral economics research has called this assumption into question, replacing the perfectly rational assumption with bounded, selective, quasi, and near rationality. If we are not calculating costs and benefits before deciding then how do we decide? One way of making decisions is the use of heuristics, short cuts, often the product of unconscious mental processes. Research by Gerd Gigerenzer and others has shown that heuristic can be as effective if not more effective then decision making as the result of conscious cost and benefit calculations.

Simplifications of insights around heuristics and bias have been developed into new policy instruments in the form of “nudges”. Nudging has become a lucrative and influential industry for changing decision making, and nudges are now widely used by private and public institutions. Thaler and Sunstein in Nudge define a nudge as anything which “alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives .” Can individuals be “nudged” by government and commercial organizations towards different decisions, which are not necessarily better from the individual’s perspective? Or are nudges ultimately a more effective and efficient way for government to achieve key policy goals?

This Special Issue will explore heuristics and nudges and the connections between them. Some of the issues we would like to address include the history of the concepts of nudging or heuristics in economics; which economic questions and problems can nudging and heuristics explain; and what is the empirical evidence for the value of nudging and heuristics? All papers or any topic concerning nudges and/or heuristics are welcome.

Guest editors, Michelle Baddeley (Institute for Choice, University of South Australia), and Shabnam Mousavi (Sabnam Mousavi, Johns Hopkins University, and Max Planck Institute, Berlin).

For papers about nudging, please send an abstract of 500 words or less to Michelle Baddeley atmichelle.baddeley@unisa.edu.au, and for papers about heuristics, please send an abstract to Shabnam Mousavi at shabnam@jhu.edu.

Abstract (500 words or less) submission deadline: August 1, 2017.

Published on July 19, 2017 in JBEP special issues calls, Past News Comments (0)

CfP JBEP Special Issue on “Behavioral Business Research and its Stakeholders”

Traditional research in economics and the other social sciences is sometimes criticized for questionable relevance to business and public policy, inability to prepare students for work or responsible citizenship, and as stymied by internal disciplinary divisions. Behavioral approaches have been touted as a way forward by unifying the social sciences based on the empirical facts of evolved human psychology that are relevant to the concerns of diverse stakeholders.Business schools can nurture this process as forums where researchers from different disciplines, practitioners and students interact. However, misaligned incentives and differences in scientific conventions, epistemology and methods impede the emergence of a behavioral business discipline from economics, psychology and management.

This Special Issue is devoted to the case for, prospects and challenges of a unified behavioral business research that has public policy implications and/or enhances the skills of policy makers. Within this framework, topics of interest include discussions of whether and how behavioral approaches can be help to (1) integrate the social sciences which enhances public policy, (2) bridge the gap to business and public policy audiences, and (3) better serve students and their future employers.

Guest Editors:

  •       Swee Hoon Chuah, RMIT UniversityT
  •       Robert Hoffmann, RMIT University
  •       Jason Potts, RMIT University

We welcome submissions from researchers but also research stakeholders from the public, business and teaching arenas. Full papers submission should adhere to the Journal’s 3500 word limit but shorter, insightful comments are also invited.

Please use JBEP’s online submission system using “SI: Behavioural Business” as article type. Information for authors including author guidelines which also apply to the Special Issue can be found on the journal website. All submissions will be subject to standard refereeing.

The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2017. Please contact Robert Hoffman with any questions: robert.hoffmann@rmit.edu.au.

Published on March 22, 2017 in JBEP special issues calls, Past News Comments (0)