Centre for Experimental Studies and Research (CESAR)
The Centre for Experimental Studies and Research – CESAR – provides high quality research on decisions and markets using economic theory and experimental methods.
2024
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Monday, January 22, 2024 - BI CESAR will host a workshop on June 13th & 14th at BI this spring.
The workshop is a unique opportunity to discuss the intersection of theory and experiments. Most papers will tend to have links to microeconomic theory within fields such as Game Theory, Industrial Organization, and Labor Economics. Please email Tom-Reiel if you are interested.
2023
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Thursday, December 7, 2023 - BI PhD Defence: Thomas McKay
PhD Candidate Thomas McKay, Department of Economics, defended his thesis “Essays about Auctions and Bargaining: Theory and Experiments” for the Doctor Philosophiae degree at BI Norwegian Business School.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023 - International Economic Review August 2023: Publication in International Economic Review
Heggedal, T.R., Helland, L., and Moen, E.R. (2023), Sequential Price Setting: Theory and Evidence from a Lab Experiment, International Economic Review.
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Monday, May 22, 2023 - The Scandinavian Journal of Economics May 2023 – Publication in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Brekke, K.A, Ciccone, A, Heggedal, T.R. and Helland, L, Reference points in sequential bargaining: Theory and experiment.
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Saturday, April 1, 2023 - The Economic Journal April 2023 - Publication in the Economic Journal
Hauge, K. E., Kotsadam, A., & Riege, Culture and gender differences in willingness to compete.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023 - BI February 2023 - Reading group
CESAR organizes a reading group on topics within applied microeconomic theory. We currently discuss recent papers on consumer search and related topics within competition policy and IO. Our ambition is to have 4-5 sessions per semester.
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Would you like to join? Please send an email to Tom-Reiel Heggedal.
2022
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - Games and Economic Behavior Publication in Games and Economic Behavior.
Heggedal, T.R., Helland, L., and Knutsen, M.V. (2022). The Power of Outside Options in the Presence of Obstinate Types.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022 - BI Publication in Games and Economic Behavior.
Heggedal, T.R., Helland, L. and Morton. R. (2022). Can Paying Politicians Well Reduce Corruption? The Effects of Wages and Uncertainty on Electoral Competition.
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Monday, March 28, 2022 - Ernesto Ruben PHD course in experimental economics
Ernesto Reuben at NYU Abu Dhabi is giving a PhD course in experimental economics at BI Norwegian Business School May 2nd to 6th this spring
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The course provides a combination of lectures on topics in the research frontier, programming and running experiments on z-Tree, and in class discussions of experimental designs.
More information on Ernesto's teaching materials can be found in the link above.
There are no fees for participation, but participants must provide for their own accommodation and travel.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022 - Aftenposten Funeral for Leif at St. Olavs church in Oslo.
Read Leif’s obituary published in Aftenposten
2021
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Monday, December 20, 2021 - Leif sadly passed away today.
Leif Helland passed away on Monday. It was very sad to receive the news. He had been terminally ill for a while, and he died peacefully with his family by his side. He was a great researcher and a great colleague and friend. He built up the research environment around experimental economics at BI. Leif will be sorely missed.
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Friday, October 1, 2021 - Publication in Management Science
Ellingsen, T., & Kristiansen, E. G. (2021). Fair and Square: A Retention Model of Managerial Compensation. forthcoming Management Science.
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Saturday, May 1, 2021 - Accepted article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Helland, L., Iachan, F. S., Juelsrud, R. E., & Nenov, P. T. Information quality and regime change: Evidence from the lab. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 191, 538-554.
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Saturday, May 1, 2021 - Publication in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Bos, O., Gomez-Martinez, F., Onderstal, S., & Truyts, T. (2021). Signalling in auctions: Experimental evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 187, 448-469.
2020
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Saturday, August 1, 2020 - Publication Management Science
von Essen, E., Huysentruyt, M., & Miettinen, T. (2020). Exploration in teams and the encouragement effect: Theory and experimental evidence. Management Science, 66(12), 5861-5885.
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Monday, June 1, 2020 - Publication in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Miettinen, T., Kosfeld, M., Fehr, E., & Weibull, J. (2020). Revealed preferences in a sequential prisoners’ dilemma: A horse-race between six utility functions. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 173, 1-25.
2019
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Friday, June 28, 2019 - Workshop hosted by CESAR
3rd Bargaining: Experiments, Empirics, and Theory (BEET) Workshop with Leif Helland at BI-Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway) on 28-29 June, 2019.
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Thursday, May 9, 2019 - Conference sponsored by CESAR
9th Annual Search and Matching Conference 2019 - European Search and Matching Network (SaM)
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Friday, February 1, 2019 - Publication in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
Hernandez-Arenaz, I., & Iriberri, N. (2019). A Review of Gender Differences in Negotiation . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, pp. 1–22.
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Friday, February 1, 2019 - Publication in Games and Economic Behavior
Andersen, J.J. and Heggedal, T.R. (2019). Political Rents and Voter Information in Search Equilibrium, Games and Economic Behavior, 114, 146-168.
2018
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Sunday, April 1, 2018 - Publication in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Hernandez-Arenaz, I., & Iriberri, N. (2018). Women ask for less (only from men): Evidence from bargaining in the field. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 152, 192-214.
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Marja-Liisa Halko and Topi Miettinen's article From ideals to deals - The effect of impartiality experience on stakeholder behavior has been accepted for publication in PlosOne.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - Article accepted in Oxford Economic Papers
New publication in Oxford Economic Papers
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Leif Helland, Jon Hovi and Håkon Sælen's article Climate Leadership by Conditional Commitments has been accepted for publication in Oxford Economic Papers
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - PhD course in experimental economics
Ernesto Reuben at NYU Abu Dhabi is giving a PhD course in experimental economics at BI Norwegian Business School the 11th - 13th of April this spring.
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The course provides a combination of lectures on topics in the research frontier, programming and running experiments on z-Tree, and in class discussions of experimental designs.
More information on Ernesto's teaching materials can be found in the link above.
There are no fees for participation, but participants must provide for their own accommodation and travel.
PhD students external to BI please sign up here for participating (course code DRE 7012 Experimental Economics):
https://www.bi.edu/programmes-and-individual-courses/phd/external-candidates/
Students looking for a hotel deal can contact Kristin Svanekiær Grigson at kristin.s.grigson@bi.no
2016
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Sunday, December 4, 2016 - New working paper
New CESAR working paper is out: "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Bandwagons in the Lab", authored by Tom-Reiel Heggedal, Leif Helland & Knut-Eric Neset Joslin. The paper subjects the seminal platform selection model of Farrell & Saloner (1985) to a controlled experimental test.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - Copenhagen Business School Mirjam van Praag presents at the Economics department
Mirjam van Praag presents a paper at BI Economics Department on Wednesday 30th November, 12-13.15
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Friday, September 30, 2016 - 11th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics 11th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
CESAR is hosting the 11th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics on the 30 September - 1 October 2016.
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Friday, September 30, 2016 - ScienceDirect Paper accepted in Journal of Economic Theory
A paper on experimental posted offer markets by Leif Helland, Espen R. Moen & Edgar Preugschat is accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Theory.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - socialscienceregistry.org New pre study plan registered at AEA
A pre study plan for the project "Electoral competition and political rents in the lab" has been posted at the American Economic Association's RCT registry (AEARCTR-0001289). The project is a collaboration between Tom-Reiel Heggedal, Leif Helland & Rebecca Morton.
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Friday, May 13, 2016 - Espen Moen presents at SAM
13. May 2016 Espen Moen presents the paper "Information and coordination frictions in experimental posted offer markets" at the Search and Matching Conference in Amsterdam.
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Saturday, April 2, 2016 - BI New working paper
New CESAR working paper is out: "From ideals to deals - the effect of arbitration experience on stakeholder behavior", authored by Marja-Liisa Halko & Topi Miettinen. The paper investigates the effect of past arbitrator experience on stakeholder demands in bargaining, as well as the effect of past stakeholder experience in bargaining on arbitrator behavior.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - Nagore Iriberri Nagore Iriberri presents at the Economics department
Nagore Iriberri presents a paper at BI Economics Department on Wednesday 17th February, 12-13.15.
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Monday, January 4, 2016 - Forskningsradet CESAR wins TOPPFORSK allocation
The Norwegian Research Council has allocated 22 mill. NOK to CESAR for the years 2016-2021, as part of it's prestigious TOPPFORSK progam. The researchers in the project will study the causes of bargaining failure using game theoretical models and controlled laboratory experiments. The project is lead by Leif Helland.