Economic Methodology: Models, Measurement, and Interventions

Day One, Friday, March 8

• 8:30-9:00am Registration/Welcoming Coffee
• 9:00-9:15 Welcoming Words: Nadia Ruiz, Stanford University
• 9:15-10:45 Session: History of Economic Thought
  • 9:15-9:45 The Problem of Learning in Hayek's Psychological Economics, Mario Rizzo, New York University
  • 9:45-10:15 Institutional Assumptions and the Nature of Knowledge in Economic Analysis, Dillon Tauzin, Chapman University
  • 10:15-10:45 From the Pure to the Applied (Arrow), Yam Maayan, Tel Aviv University
• 11:00-12:30 pm Keynote: “When Metaphysics Meets Methodology in Economics,” Jennifer Jhun, Duke University
• 12:30-2:00 pm Lunch break
• 2:00-3:30 pm Session: Preferences and Welfare
  • 2:00-2:30 Preferences from the Mind Up, Paul de Font-Reaulx, University of Michigan
  • 2:30-3:00 A Defence of Informed Preference Satisfaction Theories of Welfare, Roberto Fumagalli, King’s College London
  • 3:00-3:30 Nudging and Meta-Choice Architecture, Angela Barnes, Arizona State University
• 3:45-5:15 pm Session: Statistics, Econometrics, and Experiments
  • 3:45-4:15 The Futility of Statistics without History: Lessons from The Annales School, James Michelson, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 4:15-4:45 Measuring Risk and Time Preferences Across Different Populations, Maria Porter, University of Arizona
  • 4:45-5:15 When Should Meta-Regressions Be Robust?, Aki Lehtinen, Nankai University
• 5:30-7:00 pm Keynote: “Agency and Adaptation in Behavioural Normative Economics,” Malte Dold, Pomona College

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: NADIA RUIZ, KOBI FINESTONE, BENJAMIN GENTA, AND MARCOS PICCHIO