Activities

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 series

November 16, 2023 – Shan Luo (USC)

“Brain and Behavioral Correlates of Obesity and Dietary Choices during Critical Period of Development”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series

November 2, 2023 – Ian Krajbich (UCLA, Psychology)

“Hesitation in the Marketplace”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series

October 26, 2023 – Chad Kendall (USC Marshall)

”Causal Narratives“
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series

October 19, 2023 – Juan Gonzalez (USC Economics)

“The development of rationality in games with hidden information”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series

October 5, 2023 – Alejandro Martínez-Marquina (USC Marshall)

“Indoctrination in the Classroom: Evidence from the Spanish Social Service”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series

September 28, 2023 – Jae Joon Lee (Stanford Digital Economy Lab)

“Cheap Talk with the Bayesian Truth Serum”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series

September 21, 2023 – Kathleen Ngangoue (UCLA Anderson)

”The Resolution of Uncertainty in the Value and Probability Domains” – canceled
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series

September 14, 2023 – Alessandra Cassar (University of San Francisco)

”It Makes a Village: Child Care and Prosociality”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series

September 7, 2023 – Cary Frydman (USC Marshall)

“On the Source and Instability of Probability Weighting”
Organizer: LABEL – IEPR seminar series

August 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 series

April 28, 2023 – Los Angeles Experiments (LAX) Workshop

TCC Room 227: The Rosen Family Screening Theatre
Organizer: Isabelle Brocas, LABEL

March 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 – 3:00pm

March 10, 2023 – IEPR Distinguished Lecture Series by Michael

Woodford (Columbia University)”Cognitive Imprecision and Stake-Dependent Risk Attitudes”
Organizer: Juan Carrillo, LABEL

January 30, 2023 – IEPR Distinguished Lecture Series by Matthew Jackson (Stanford University)

“Determinants of Homophily, Inequality, and Immobility”
Organizers: LABEL and Theory Seminar

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
Announcement

April 8, 2022 – Guillaume Pouliot (University of Chicago, Harris School of Pubic Policy)

“Optimal transport as a reduced form regression tool”
Econometrics Seminar, KAP 319 @ 3:30pm

April 4-8, 2022 – Guillaume Pouliot (University of Chicago, Harris School of Pubic Policy)

Short term visit

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”
LABEL Seminar Series, 1pm (online)

May 5-7, 2020 – Seda Ertac (Koc University)

Visit and Seminar
LABEL Seminar Series, Cancelled

April 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, Cancelled

March 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
Cancelled

March 11, 2020 – Ioana Marinescu (University of Pennsylvania)

Wages, Fairness and Markets
Organizer: Romain Ranciere
Cancelled

March 9, 2020 – IEPR Distinguished Lectures Series by Matthew

Jackson (Stanford University)
Visit and Seminar
Cancelled

March 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, Cancelled

February 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 Choice

November 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.com

April 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, 4:00-5:30pm

March 28, 2019 – Tom Chang (USC Marshall School of Business)

Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
TBA

March 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)
“Pro-sociality, Rules, and Theory of Mind”

November 1, 2018 – Jeff Naecker (Wesleyan U.)

Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
Why we give

October 18, 2018 – Josh Tasoff (Claremont GU)

Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
Machine learning and elicitations

September 6, 2018 – Sevgi Yuksel (UC Santa Barbara)

Organizer: LABEL
Joint with LABEL Seminar Series, 10:30-11:15 (KAP 335)
Choosing information sources

May 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 PM

March 6, 2017 – IEPR Distinguished Lectures Series by Joel Sobel (UC San Diego)

Organizer: Juan Carrillo
“Lying and Deception in Games” by Joel Sobel

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 rooms

September 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

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 Tan

April 2, 2015 – Seminar by Marta Serra-Garcia (UCSD, Rady School of Management)

“The Impact of Financial Education on Adolescents’ Intertemporal Choices”
Organizer: LABEL Seminar Series

February 19, 2015 – Seminar by Ori Heffetz (Cornell University)

“Task Completion: Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients”
Organizer: LABEL Seminar Series

January 22, 2015 – Seminar by Tom Cunningham (IIES Stockholm, visiting Caltech)

“Identifying Implicit Preferences”
Organizer: LABEL Seminar Series

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 Series

May 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 Series

March 27, 2014 – Seminar by Marina Agranov and Leeat Yariv (Caltech)

“Collusion through Communication in Auctions”
Organizer: LABEL Seminar Series

January 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”
Organizer: LABEL Seminar Series

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

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, LABEL

January-February 2012 – Short term visit Marco Casari (U. Bologna)

Organizers: Juan Carrilo & Giorgio Coricelli

June 2, 2011 – IEPR Distingued Lectures Series – James Heckman University of Chicago

Personality Psychology and Economics
Organizer: Juan Carrillo

May 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

November 2, 2010- IEPR Distingued Lectures Series – Arthur Robson, Simon Fraser University

“The Evolution of Time Preference”
Organizer: Juan Carrillo