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Article on videnskab.dk (in Danish, see http://vcee.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/proj_cent_experi_economics/Eksperiment__V%C3%A6lgerne_gennemskuer_ikke_egoistiske_politikere___Videnskab_2017.pdf) reporting on "Choosing a Public-Spirited Leader - An Experimental Investigation of Political Selection", by T. Markussen and J.-R. Tyran. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

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Hans Theo Normann (U Düsseldorf) speaks about "Equilibrium Selection in Continuous-Time Games with Coupled Populations" on November 24.

Taisuke Imai (California Institute of Technology) speaks about "Estimating Time Preferences from Budget Set Choices Using Optimal Adaptive Design" on November 24.

Yan Chen (U of Michigan) speaks about "What motivates experts to contribute to public information goods? A field experiment on Wikipedia" on November 6.

VCEE NEWS October 2017:

Forthcoming publication: "Thinking Fast, Thinking Badly", by Jiméne, N., Rodriguez Lara, I., J.-R. Tyran and E. Wengström Economics Letters.
Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2940232

Iris Bohnet (Harvard) talks about "What Works: Gender Equality by Design" at the VBEN event on Oct 10
Click this link for more information on Iris Bohnet: https://scholar.harvard.edu/iris_bohnet/home
Click this link for more information about the VBEN: http://vcee.univie.ac.at/vben/

J.-R. Tyran is visiting professor at Université Paris 1 and gives seminars at their Centre d'Economie and at U Fribourg, Oct 24 - Nov. 3.
Click this link for more information on J.-R. Tyran: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/jean-robert.tyran/

We welcome Martin Kocher as new Director at the VCEE. Martin has been Professor at LMU Munich and is now Professor of Economics at U Vienna and director of the Institute of Advanced Studies.
Click this link for more information on Martin Koch: https://www.ihs.ac.at/about/people/martin-kocher/
Click this link for more general information: http://wirtschaftswissenschaften.univie.ac.at/news/medienportal/detailansicht/news/info-martin-kocher-seit-oktober-2017-neuer-professor-fuer-volkswirtschaftslehre-15102017/

Roí Zultan (Ben-Gurion U Negev) speaks about "Leveraging wage subsidies to facilitate fair wages and increase social welfare?" on October 20.

Alexander Vostroknutov (U Trento) speaks about "Social norms and preferencees for redistribution" on October 20.

Wir gratulieren Richard Thaler zum Nobelpreis!
Click this link for more Information: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2017/press.html
Click this link for an interview with J.-R. Tyran about the importance of psychological factors in economics: http://wiwi.univie.ac.at/news/medienportal/detailansicht/news/wirtschaft-nobelpreis-2017/

Choosing a Public-Spirited Leader. An Experimental Investigation of Political Selection by Thomas Markussen, Jean-Robert Tyran :: SSRN In this experiment, voters select a leader who can either act in the public interest, i.e. make efficient and equitable policy choices, or act in a corrupt way,

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Roel van Veldhuizen (WZB Berlin) speaks about "Gender Differences in Tournament Choices: Risk Preferences, Overconfidence, or Competitiveness?" and Anders Poulsen (U East Anglia) speaks about "The Attraction and Compromise Effects in Bargaining: Experimental Evidence" on June 9

Working Paper: "Choosing a Public-Spirited Leader. An Experimental Investigation of Political Selection", by T. Markussen and J.-R. Tyran

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2940232

Ayala Arad (Tel Aviv U) speaks about "Multi-Dimensional Reasoning in Resource Allocation Games: Evidence from Intra-Team Communication" and Stefan Trautmann (U Heidelberg + U Tilburg) speaks about "Implementing Fair Procedures?" on March 31

Job opening: VCEE is looking for a lab manager

https://vcee.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/proj_cent_experi_economics/newsbilder/AnnouncementSeniorScientist_2017.pdf

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J.-R. Tyran reviews “The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis” by Sanjit Dhami in JBEE

Book review: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221480431730006X

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Forthcoming publication: “Discretized best-response dynamics for the rock-paper-scissors game“ by Peter Bednarik and Josef Hofbauer. Journal of Dynamics and Games

http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/displayArticlesnew.jsp?paperID=13544

AIMS Home Discretized best-response dynamics for the rock-paper-scissors game Pages: 75 - 86, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2017 doi:10.3934/jdg.2017005