2014 Sessions for the Economic Science Association

Session 24A Market and Auction Experiments
Session 24B Risk Preference Experiments
Session 24C Time Preference Experiments
Session 24D Crime and Punishment Experiments
Session 24F Capital and Banking Experiments
Session 24G Public Goods Experiments
Session 24H Health and Hospital Experiments
Session 24I Game Theory Experiments
Session 24J Finance, Accounting, and Real Estate Experiments
Session 24K Political Science Experiments
Session 24L Experiments Examining the Effect of Gender and Personality

 
Saturday
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
ESA
Session 24A
Market and Auction Experiments

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Papers:

"Competitive Markets When Customers Anticipate Stockouts"
Joshua Foster, Whitman College (Contact Author)
Cary A. Deck, University of Arkansas
Amy Farmer, University of Arkansas

"Time as Money: Contribution-Based Assignment Auctions"
Michael Caldara, Chapman University (Contact Author)
J. Forrest Williams, Portland State University

"Sequential Auctions with Partial Information"
Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Contact Author)

 

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Saturday
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
ESA
Session 24B
Risk Preference Experiments

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

Angela C.M. de Oliveira, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Papers:

"Does Pay-One-Randomly Incentive Mechanism Bias Risk Preference Elicitation Method with Multiple Price List Format?"
Younjun Kim, Iowa State University (Contact Author)
Tanya Rosenblat, University of Michigan

"Trust over Risk: Entrepreneurial Risk Taking Under Punishment"
Sophia Xiaofei Pan, University of the South- Sewanee (Contact Author)
Jason A. Aimone, Baylor University

"Risk Preferences Across Time and Across Selves"
Diego Aycinena, Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Contact Author)
Lucas Rentschler, Universidad Francisco Marroquín

"When Risky Decisions Generate Externalities"
Angela C.M. de Oliveira, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Contact Author)

 

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Saturday
1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
ESA
Session 24C
Time Preference Experiments

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University

Papers:

"The Impact of Overconfidence in Acquiring Information"
Klajdi Bregu, University of Arkansas (Contact Author)
Daniel Forbes, AT&T

"Subjective Time Perception and Its Effects on Economic Choices"
C. Monica Capra, Claremont Graduate University (Contact Author)
Ji Yong Park, Claremont Graduate University

"Fantasy and Dread: An Experimental Test of Attentional Anticipatory Utility"
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University (Contact Author)

 

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Saturday
3:00 - 4:45 p.m.
ESA
Session 24D
Crime and Punishment Experiments

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

Tim Salmon, Southern Methodist University

Papers:

"Contagion Effects in Crime and the Role of Social Proximity—An Experimental Approach"
Eugen Dimant, University of Paderborn (Contact Author)

"When Do Punishment Institutions Work?"
Sarah Jacobson, Williams College (Contact Author)
Patrick Aquino, Harvard University
Robert Gazzale, University of Toronto

"Fairness and Sacrifice—Extreme Punishment in Asymmetric Contests"
Malcolm John Kass, The University of Texas at Arlington (Contact Author)
Catherine C. Eckel, Texas A&M University
Enrique Fatas, University of East Anglia

"The Effectiveness of Social Observability Mechanisms in Limiting Bad Behavior"
Tim Salmon, Southern Methodist University (Contact Author)
Danila Serra, Southern Methodist University

 

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Sunday
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
ESA
Session 24F
Capital and Banking Experiments

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

Ann Gillette, University of Louisville

Papers:

"Is a Little Learning a Dangerous Thing? Ability-Complements but Not Ability-Substitutes Exacerbate Overconfidence"
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University (Contact Author)

"Fixed Prices and Regulatory Discretion as Triggers for Contingent Capital Conversion: An Experimental Examination"
Douglas D. Davis, Virginia Commonwealth University (Contact Author)
Edward S. Prescott, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

"Indirect Ethics and Backdoor Bailouts"
Daniel G. Arce, The University of Texas at Dallas (Contact Author)
Laura Razzolini, Virginia Commonwealth University

"Sovereign Debt Unanimous Agreement or Collective Action Clause: Incentives for Productivity"
Ann Gillette, University of Louisville (Contact Author)

 

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Sunday
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
ESA
Session 24G
Public Goods Experiments

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

John Hamman, Florida State University

Papers:

"I’ve Paid My Dues!  An Experiment and Survey on Cooperation Decay in Ageing Service Clubs"
Daniel T. Hall, High Point University (Contact Author)

"Payments or Persuasion"
Sarah Jacobson, Williams College (Contact Author)
Jason J. Delaney, Georgia Gwinnett College

"Persistence of Coordination Norms in Changing Groups"
John Hamman, Florida State University (Contact Author)
Ernesto Reuben, Columbia University

 

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Sunday
2:00 - 3:45 p.m.
ESA
Session 24H
Health and Hospital Experiments

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

James C. Cox, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Biotic Economics: A Trade-Based Framework for Microbial Ecosystems"
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University (Contact Author)

"An Experimental Study of Risk in Physician Treatment Plans"
Ellen Green, Arizona State University (Contact Author)
Sheheryar Banuri, The University of Texas at Dallas
Phil Keefer, Inter-American Development Bank

"Incentivizing Cost-Effective Reductions in Hospital Readmission Rates"
James C. Cox, Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Vjollca Sadiraj, Georgia State University
Kurt Schnier, University of California, Merced

 

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Sunday
4:00 - 5:45 p.m.
ESA
Session 24I
Game Theory Experiments

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

Zhengzheng Wang, Texas A&M University

Papers:

"Testing Prudence, Justice, and Benevolence in Repeated Global Bargaining Games"
Ajalavat Viriyavipart, Texas A&M University (Contact Author)
John Van Huyck, Texas A&M University

"The Trouble with Trembles: Reverberating Noise in the Market Entry Game"
Daniel K Saunders, University of California, Santa Barbara (Contact Author)

"How Will Others Play This Game? Heterogeneous Beliefs and Non-Defection in Finite Games"
Dimitry Mezhvinsky, The Ohio State University (Contact Author)

"An Experimental Analysis of the Non-Constant-Sum Colonel Blotto Game"
Zhengzheng Wang, Texas A&M University (Contact Author)

 

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Monday
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
ESA
Session 24J
Finance, Accounting, and Real Estate Experiments

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Papers:

"Liquidity Shocks in Experimental Asset Markets"
Li Qi, Agnes Scott College (Contact Author)
Lucy Ackert, Kennesaw State University
Lei Jiang, Tsinghua University

"Reward the Lucky?"
Angela C.M. de Oliveira, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Contact Author)
John Spraggon, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alexander Smith, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

"An Experimental Investigation of Warm Glow and Tax Evasion"
Douglas A. Norton, Florida State University (Contact Author)

"Examining the Holdout Problem in Various Settings"
Dustin Read, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Michael Seiler, The College of William & Mary
Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Contact Author)

 

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Monday
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
ESA
Session 24K
Political Science Experiments

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

Vjollca Sadiraj, Georgia State University

Papers:

"The Role of Volunteer Leaders in Fundraising"
Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University (Contact Author)
Catherine C. Eckel, Texas A&M University

"Are Political Statements Purely Expressive? An Experiment"
Cortney S. Rodet, Economic Science Institute (Contact Author)
Jared Barton, California State, Channel Islands

"Political Institutions and Corruption: An Experimental Examination of the 'Right to Recall'"
Vjollca Sadiraj, Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Sally Wallace, Georgia State University
Sarah Mansour, University of Warwick

 

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Monday
1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
ESA
Session 24L
Experiments Examining the Effect of Gender and Personality

Organizers:

Arthur L. Zillante, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Session Chairs:

Calvin Blackwell, College of Charleston

Papers:

"Competitiveness and the Gender Wage Gap"
Andrew McGee, Simon Fraser University (Contact Author)
Peter McGee, National University of Singapore
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore

"Gender and Group Liability in Microfinance Experiment"
Shagata Mukherjee, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

"Leader Transparency in a Sequential Leader/Follower Game"
Philip Grossman, Monash University (Contact Author)
Mana Komai, St. Cloud State University

"Personality and Performance Across Classic Experiments"
Calvin Blackwell, College of Charleston (Contact Author)

 

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