IEPR sponsors activities from the Economics Department by allocating resources to the organization of conferences, workshops and seminar series. It also features a small visitors’ program that allows scholars to come and spend a few days in our department.
Current Activities
April 11, 2024 – Leandro Carvalho (University of Southern California)
“A Chip Off The Old Block? Genetics and The Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status“
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series
Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm, KAP 329
March 28, 2024 – Prachi Jain (Loyola Marymount University)
“Beyond Representation: The Importance of the Decision-Making Process in Hiring Decisions”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series
Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm, KAP 329
March 26, 2024 – Gary Charness (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“Expected discrimination and wage negotiation: A field experiment”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm, KAP 329
February 29, 2024 – Colin F. Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
“Eyetracking and algorithmically-predicted visual salience in decisions and games”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series
Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm, KAP 329
February 2, 2024 – Soo Hong Chew (National University of Singapore)
“Predictive Brain Plasticity, Choice Perception, and Decision-Making”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series
Time: 3:30pm – 5:00pm, KAP 319
February 1, 2024 – Payam Piray (USC)
“Why is learning so hard under uncertainty?”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series
Time: 11:00pm – 12:00pm, KAP 329
January 25, 2024 – Marina Agranov (Caltech)
“Brain and Behavioral Correlates of Obesity and Dietary Choices during Critical Period of Development”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series
Time: 11:30pm – 12:30pm, KAP 329
Past Activities
The following are workshops, conferences, seminars and lectures that were organized or co-sponsored by the Institute from 2010. For earlier events, please refer to our Archives.
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November 30, 2023 – Kirby Nielsen (Caltech)
“Distinguishing Common Ratio Preferences from Common Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks” and “Connecting Common Ratio and Common Consequence Preferences.”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesNovember 16, 2023 – Shan Luo (USC)
“Brain and Behavioral Correlates of Obesity and Dietary Choices during Critical Period of Development”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesNovember 2, 2023 – Ian Krajbich (UCLA, Psychology)
“Hesitation in the Marketplace”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesOctober 26, 2023 – Chad Kendall (USC Marshall)
”Causal Narratives“
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesOctober 19, 2023 – Juan Gonzalez (USC Economics)
“The development of rationality in games with hidden information”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesOctober 5, 2023 – Alejandro Martínez-Marquina (USC Marshall)
“Indoctrination in the Classroom: Evidence from the Spanish Social Service”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesSeptember 28, 2023 – Jae Joon Lee (Stanford Digital Economy Lab)
“Cheap Talk with the Bayesian Truth Serum”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesSeptember 21, 2023 – Kathleen Ngangoue (UCLA Anderson)
”The Resolution of Uncertainty in the Value and Probability Domains” – canceled
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesSeptember 14, 2023 – Alessandra Cassar (University of San Francisco)
”It Makes a Village: Child Care and Prosociality”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesSeptember 7, 2023 – Cary Frydman (USC Marshall)
“On the Source and Instability of Probability Weighting”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesAugust 24, 2023 – Pedro Rey (ESADE)
“What Prevents Evidence-Based Policy Adoption? Experiments on the Role of Partisan Bias and Information Framing on Policy Implementation”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar seriesApril 28, 2023 – Los Angeles Experiments (LAX) Workshop
TCC Room 227: The Rosen Family Screening Theatre
Organizer: Isabelle Brocas, LABELMarch 24, 2023 – Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh)
Presentation of “The No Club”
Organizers: Isabelle Brocas (LABEL), Marshall School of Business, USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Policy Initiative
TCC Room 227: The Rosen Family Screening Theatre, Time: 1:30pm – 3:00pmMarch 10, 2023 – IEPR Distinguished Lecture Series by Michael
Woodford (Columbia University)”Cognitive Imprecision and Stake-Dependent Risk Attitudes”
Organizer: Juan Carrillo, LABELJanuary 30, 2023 – IEPR Distinguished Lecture Series by Matthew Jackson (Stanford University)
“Determinants of Homophily, Inequality, and Immobility”
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April 15, 2022 – IEPR Distinguished Lecture Series by Gary Charness (University of California Santa Barbara)
“Improving children’s food choices: Experimental evidence from the field” (with R. Cobo-Reyes, E. Eyster, G Katz, A. Sanchez and M. Sutter)
Organizer: Juan Carrillo, LABEL
AnnouncementApril 8, 2022 – Guillaume Pouliot (University of Chicago, Harris School of Pubic Policy)
“Optimal transport as a reduced form regression tool”
Econometrics Seminar, KAP 319 @ 3:30pmApril 4-8, 2022 – Guillaume Pouliot (University of Chicago, Harris School of Pubic Policy)
Short term visit
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April 12, 2021 – Ryan Oprea (University of California Santa Barbara)
“What Makes a Rule Complex”
LABEL Seminar Series, 1pm (online)March 22, 2021 – Daniel Martin (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
“Attention and perception”
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May 5-7, 2020 – Seda Ertac (Koc University)
Visit and Seminar
LABEL Seminar Series, CancelledApril 9, 2020 – Aleksandr Alekseev (Chapman U.)
Behavioral Labor Economics
LABEL Seminar Series, Time: 11 am (KAP 335)April 2, 2020 – David Rojo Arjona (Chapman U.)
Tests of Belief Theories
LABEL Seminar Series, CancelledMarch 27, 2020 – USC Zoom Panel on the Economics of the Covid-19 Crisis
Macroeconomic Impact and Policy Responses
When: 9:30AM – 10:30AM
Moderator: Romain Ranciere (USC, Econ)- Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas , UC Berkeley
- Ugo Panizza, Graduate Institute International & Development Studies, Geneva
- Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics
- Etienne Wasmer, Social Science Division, NYU Abu Dhabi
- Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund Health Crisis, Behavioral Responses, and Policy Actions
When: 10:30AM – 11:30AM
Moderator: Simon Schaner (CESR)- Daniel Bennett, Economist (CESR, USC)
- Arie Kapteyn (CESR, USC)
- Matthew Kahn (USC Economics and Johns Hopkins)
- Olivier Gossner (Ecole Polytechnique)
- Neeraj Sood (USC Sol Price)
March 23, 2020 – Lord David Sainsbury
Windows of Opportunity: How Nations Make Wealth
CancelledMarch 11, 2020 – Ioana Marinescu (University of Pennsylvania)
Wages, Fairness and Markets
Organizer: Romain Ranciere
CancelledMarch 9, 2020 – IEPR Distinguished Lectures Series by Matthew
Jackson (Stanford University)
Visit and Seminar
CancelledMarch 5, 2020 – Anya Samek (USC)
Field Experiments on Charitable Giving
LABEL Seminar Series, Time: 11 am (KAP 335)February 27, 2020 – Isabel Treviño (UCSD)
Information Choice in Coordination Games
LABEL Seminar Series, CancelledFebruary 6, 2020 – Marta Serra-Garcia (UCSD)
Motivated Beliefs and Unethical Behavior
LABEL Seminar Series, Time: 11 am (KAP 335)January 28, 2020 – Thomas Philippon (Stern School of Business, NYU)
Organizer: Romain Ranciere
Location and time: USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience 102, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Topic: The Great Reversal – How America Gave Up on Free Markets -
December 9, 2019 – Adam Sanjurjo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, Time: 2 pm (KAP 335)
Topic: The Role of Memory in Search and ChoiceNovember 12, 2019 – Talk by Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley)
Organizer: Romain Ranciere
Title: “The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay”
Location and Time: Michelson 102, USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, 4 pm
Talk is based on the speakers’ upcoming book.October 13, 2019 – Post-ESA workshop ”Experiments with Children and Non-Standard Subjects’’
Organizer: LABEL and Anya Samek (CESR)
Location: Jamaica Bay Inn (Marina del Rey)September 30, 2019 – IEPR Distinguished Lecture Series by Gilles Saint
Paul (Paris School of Economics)
Organizer: Romain Ranciere
Title: “Useful idiots or manipulators? Some examples of non-neutrality of economic experts “
Location and Time: Scriptorium, 4:15 pm
https://gillessaintpaul.wordpress.comApril 11, 2019 – John Duffy (UC Irvine)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
“Information Choice and Learning”April 1, 2019 – IEPR Distinguished Lecture by Eric Johnson (Columbia B. School)
Organizer: LABEL
Announcement
Short Biography
“Welcome to the Thinking Factory: Observing Decisions Though Information Acquisition.”
Location: USC University Club, Scriptorium Room, 4:00-5:30pmMarch 28, 2019 – Tom Chang (USC Marshall School of Business)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
TBAMarch 7, 2019 – Monica Capra (Claremont Graduate University)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
“Mood and personality”February 28, 2019 – Jeongbin Kim (Caltech)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
“Games Played by Teams of Players”February 14, 2019 – Nate Neligh (Chapman University)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
“Testing models of costly cognition”January 24, 2019 – Dan Benjamin (USC)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
“Errors in Probabilistic Reasoning”January 17, 2019 – Mike McBride (UC Irvine)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
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November 1, 2018 – Jeff Naecker (Wesleyan U.)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
Why we giveOctober 18, 2018 – Josh Tasoff (Claremont GU)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
Machine learning and elicitationsSeptember 6, 2018 – Sevgi Yuksel (UC Santa Barbara)
Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
Choosing information sourcesMay 3-4, 2018 – LABEL-IEPR Conference
Organizer: LABEL
Understanding Cognition and Decision-making by children (3rd conference)March 26, 2018 – IEPR Distinguished Lectures Series by Dirk Bergemann (Yale)
Organizer: Juan Carrillo
“Information Design: A Unified Perspective”March 19, 2018 – IEPR Distinguished Lecture Series by Alvin Roth (Stanford)
Organizer: Juan Carrillo
“Unusual markets: the case of kidney exchange”January 17, 2018 – IEPR Distinguished Lecture Series by Robert Barro (Harvard)
Organizer: Matt Kahn and Romain Ranciere
“Corporate Taxation and Economic Growth” -
November 9, 2017 – IEPR Distinguished Lectures Series by Roger Myerson (University of Chicago)
Organizer: Isabelle Brocas and Matt Kahn
“Local Agency Costs of Political Centralization”May 4-5, 2017 – LABEL-IEPR Conference
Organizer: LABEL
Understanding Cognition and Decision-making by children (2nd conference)April 3, 2017 – IEPR Distinguished Lectures Series by Andrew Caplin (NYU)
Organizer: Juan Carrillo
Location: USC University Club, Scriptorium Room
Time: 4:30 PM – 6:30 PMMarch 6, 2017 – IEPR Distinguished Lectures Series by Joel Sobel (UC San Diego)
Organizer: Juan Carrillo
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November 16, 2016 – IEPR Distinguished Lectures Series by Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Zurich)
Organizer: Juan Carrillo and Michael J. Magill
“The Reluctant Defaulter: A Tale of High Government Debt” by Fabrice Collard, Michel A. Habib, and Jean-Charles Rochet.November 4 – 5, 2016 – Network Economics and Game Theory Conference
Organizer: Yilmaz Kocer
Location: UCLA Shannon and Tesla roomsSeptember 26, 2016 – Seminar by Andrew Newman (Boston University)
Organizer: Matthew Kahn, joint with Economics Theory Workskop.
April 28-29, 2016- Conference on “Understanding cognition and decision making by children”
Organizer: LABEL
February 18, 2016 – Seminar by Agne Kajackaite (University of Cologne)
Organizer: LABEL seminar series
February 8-12, 2016- Short term visit by Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University)
Organizer: LABEL seminar series
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November 30, 2015 – IEPR Distinguished Lectures Series by Roland Benabou (Princeton University)
Organizer: Isabelle Brocas and Juan Carrillo
October 30-31, 2015 – Network Economics and Game Theory Conference
Organizer: Yilmaz Kocer
October 29, 2015 – Seminar by Anya Samek (CESR)
Organizer: LABEL seminar series
October 5-9, 2015 – Short term visit by Luis Rayo (University of Utah)
Organizer: TREND
May 1, 2015 – IEPR Distinguished Lectures Series by Preston McAfee (Microsoft Corporation)
“The Role of Economists in Tech Firms”
Bio of Preston McAfee
Organizer: Isabelle Brocas and Guofu TanApril 2, 2015 – Seminar by Marta Serra-Garcia (UCSD, Rady School of Management)
“The Impact of Financial Education on Adolescents’ Intertemporal Choices”
Organizer: LABEL Seminar SeriesFebruary 19, 2015 – Seminar by Ori Heffetz (Cornell University)
“Task Completion: Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients”
Organizer: LABEL Seminar SeriesJanuary 22, 2015 – Seminar by Tom Cunningham (IIES Stockholm, visiting Caltech)
“Identifying Implicit Preferences”
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December 12, 2014 – 4th Caltech-UCLA-USC LA Theory Extravaganza
Organizer: Yilmaz Kocer
Speakers:- Marek Pycia , UCLA, “Efficient Bilateral Trade” (with Rod Garratt)
- Yilmaz Kocer , USC, “Dynamic Matching and Learning”
- Leeat Yariv , Caltech,“On the Efficiency of Stable Matchings in Large Markets” (joint with SangMok Lee)
- Jernej Copic , UCLA, “ (Dis)agreement, Information and Welfare”
November 6, 2014 – Seminar by Dan Benjamin (USC, CESR)
“The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics”
Organizer: LABEL Seminar SeriesMay 30-31, 2014 – 2nd LABEL Experimental Economics Conference
Organizer: LABEL
May 27-30, 2014 – Short term visit by Gary Charness (U. Santa Barbara)
Organizer: LABEL
April 17, 2014 – Seminar by Muriel Niederle (Stanford)
“Identifying Predictable Players: Relating Behavioral Types and Subjects with Deterministic Rules”
Organizer : LABEL Seminar SeriesMarch 27, 2014 – Seminar by Marina Agranov and Leeat Yariv (Caltech)
“Collusion through Communication in Auctions”
Organizer: LABEL Seminar SeriesJanuary 16, 2014 – Seminar by John Clithero (Caltech)
“Combining Response Times and Choice Data : Using A Neuroeconomic Model of the Decision Process Improves Out-of-Sample Predictions”
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December 5, 2013- IEPR Distingued Lectures Series – Douglas Bernheim, Stanford University
Organizer: Juan Carrillo
June 13-16, 2013 – North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society
Organizers: Geert Ridder and Simon Wilkie
March 14, 2013- Seminar by Anat Bracha (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
Organizer: LABEL
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May 17-18, 2012 – First LABEL Experimental Economics Conference
Organizer: LABEL
April 30, 2012- IEPR Distingued Lectures Series – Colin Camerer, Caltech
“Field and lab evidence of predictably limited strategic thinking”
Organizer: TREND Institute, LABELJanuary-February 2012 – Short term visit Marco Casari (U. Bologna)
Organizers: Juan Carrilo & Giorgio Coricelli
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June 2, 2011 – IEPR Distingued Lectures Series – James Heckman University of Chicago
Personality Psychology and Economics
Organizer: Juan CarrilloMay 19-20, 2011 – Conference “New Challenges for Economic Decision-making: Biology, Neuroscience and Economic Models”
Organizer: TREND Institute
April 15-16, 2011 – Conference on “Advances in Development Economics”
Organizer : John Strauss
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November 2, 2010- IEPR Distingued Lectures Series – Arthur Robson, Simon Fraser University
“The Evolution of Time Preference”
Organizer: Juan Carrillo
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