8. 10. Bernt Bratsberg: Economic and Political Integration of Refugees The 2015 European migrant crisis shifted media and scholarly attention to the economic and political integration of refugees. During the MUNI lecture, Bratsberg will draw on his recent research on refugees... od 16:30
11. 10. Stefano Fiorin: Reporting Peer Misbehavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Monetary Incentives on Morally Controversial Behavior (Seminář z cyklu MUES) Reporting a peer’s wrongdoing to an authority is a morally controversial decision: re-porting will likely result in a punishment for the peer (and harming others is unethical), but the punitive action... od 13:00
14. 10. Lena Adamus: Why gender matters and how to approach it in economic research (Seminář z cyklu MUES) The presentation introduces the issue of gender in economics. I will show why gender matters in economic research and how should it be investigated. I will discuss three working papers: one on the approaches... od 14:00
17. 10. Luisa H. Pinto: Setbacks and learnings from doing experimental research: different contexts, multiple results? (Seminář z cyklu MUES) Over the last years, the use of experimental research has received an increasing attention from Management academics and journal editors. While experimental research is popular among social psychologists... od 13:00
18. 10. Marco Schwarz: The role of diagnostic ability in markets for expert services (Seminář z cyklu MUES) In credence goods markets, experts have better information about the appropriate quality of treatment than their customers. Experts may exploit their informational advantage by defrauding customers. Market... od 10:00
23. 10. Marie Claire Villeval: Unethical behavior: A matter of incentives and punishment? Dishonesty takes a variety of forms (tax evasion, corruption, book cooking, ...) and it has major implications for growth and trust in society. The standard "economics of crime" approach has shown its... od 16:30
24. 10. Diya Abraham: Rejection stings! How does being deliberately chosen to be (less or more) relevant affect performance? (Seminář z cyklu MUES) with Ondřej Krčál Previous literature has explored how agents respond to a signal of perceived distrust and shows that it lowers the agent’s motivation to act in the trustor’s (or principal’s) best interests.... od 14:30
25. 10. Ralph Bayer: Delegation Based on Cheap Talk (Seminář z cyklu MUES) We study a real effort environment, where a delegator has to decide if and to whom to delegate a task. Delegating to a person who is better at the task increases welfare. Potential delegatees send cheap-talk... od 10:00
31. 10. Marco Faravelli: Rank incentives and social learning: evidence from a randomized controlled trial (Seminář z cyklu MUES) In a 1-year randomized controlled trial involving thousands of university stu- dents, we provide real-time private feedback on relative performance in a semester-long on- line assignment. Within this setup,... od 11:00