MU-CEN: Maastricht University CEnter of Neuroeconomics

MU-CEN Research Meetings Archive

Fall 2023

 September

  • September 7, 13:30-14:30, room C-1.05 
    Milan Van Steenvoort (MPE)
    Exposure to refugees and electoral outcomes

  • September 14, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24 TO BE RESCHEDULED
    Charlotte Kroll (MPE/FPN)
    Oxytocin & Prosociality
  • September 21, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
    Ozge Gökdemir (Istanbul University)
    Do All Women Shy Away from Competition? Competitive Preferences Among different ethnic groups in the Netherlands
  • September 28, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
    Ruth van Holst (Amsterdam UMC)
    Risky Choices, Lost Bets: Reward Processing and Decision Making in Gambling Disorder

October

  • October 5, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
    Karlijn Hoyer (Amsterdam University)
    Greed and Trading Behavior in Experimental Asset Markets
  • October 12, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
    Anna Schulze Tilling (University of Bonn)
    Changing consumption behavior with carbon labels: Causal evidence on behavioral channels and effectiveness
  • October 19, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
    Steve Heinke (Universität Basel)
    Avoiding bad risks: How risk aversion is beneficial for financial decision-making
  • October 26, 12:00-13:00, room A1.23
    Te Bao (Nanyang Technological University
    Cognitive Uncertainty, GPT, and Contribution in Public Goods Game

November

  • November 9, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
    Peiran Jiao (Finance)
    Norms make investors socially responsible
  • November 16, 12:00-13:00, room F0.05
    James Wilkinson (FPN)
    Eliciting time and effort preferences
  • November 23, 12:00-13:00, room G1.11
    Charlotte Kroll (MPE & FPN)
    Oxytocin, individual differences, and trust game behavior: a registered large-scale replication
  • November 30, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
    David Albrecht (MPE)
    Mitigating manipulation in expert committees:
    Just let them talk!

December

  • December 7, 13:15-14:15, room A0.24
    Lars Wittrock (MPE)
    Optimal Memory with Sequential Learning: Signals or Posterior Beliefs
 
  • December 14, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
    Anna Hager (University of Bielefeld)
    t.b.a.

Spring 2023

January

  • January 12, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
    Lydia Hofmann (Master Student FPN)Modafinil:
    Cognitive and Patience Enhancer? The Influence of Modafinil on Cognitive
    Ability and Time Preference
  • January 19, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
    Kaiqi Liu (MPE)
    Dynamic portfolio choice for loss-averse investors: a simulation method with wealth grid  

February

  • February 2, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
    Lars Wittrock (MPE)
    Belief updating and misinformation
  • February 9, 14:00-15:00, room A1.22
    King King Li (Shenzhen University)
    The Hidden Costs of Choice in the Labor Market
  • February 16, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
    Hannes Rusch (MPE)
    Success and failure of democratic institutions in preventing ethnic conflict: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment
  • February 23, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
    Paul Bokern (MPE)
    The Convergent and External Validity of Risk Preference Elicitation Methods: Controlling for Measurement Error in a Large Dutch Sample

March

  • March 2, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
    Yoni Slater (FPN, Section Forensic Psychology)
    Between self-interest and social preferences – A neuromodulation approach to establish the role of cognitive-control
  • March 9, 12:00-13:00, room E3.04 & Zoom
    Eliza Stenzhorn (University of Bremen)
    Lock-in effects in online labor markets
  • March 16, 12:00-13:00, ONLINE
    Ioannis Evangelidis (ESADE Business School (Barcelona))
    When Willingness-to-Pay Seems Irrational: The Role of Perceived Market Price
  • March 23, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
    Jona Linde (MPE)
    Freeriding in teams in the lab and in the field
  • March 30, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
    Andreas Ziegler (University of Amsterdam & the Tinbergen Institute)
    Persuading an audience: Testing information design in the laboratory

April

  • April 6, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24 & Zoom
    Hannes Rusch (MPE)
    Groupiness in the field II – First results
  • April 20, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
    Yi Sheng (Tilburg University)
    Help to signal

May

  • May 4, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
    Nicolas Kurtenbach (MPE)
    When you try your best but you don’t succeed: Nudges in retirement saving may backfire
  • May 11, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
    Nathalie Roemer (Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Economic Policy)
    Breaking the Bias: The Effect of Self-Promotion on Gender Equality in the Workplace
  • May 25, 12:00-13:00, room A1.23
    Sören Harrs (University of Cologne)
    Fairness and Political Preferences

June

  • June 1, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23 POSTPONED
    Matthias Wibral (MPE)
    When you try your best but you don’t succeed: Nudges in retirement saving may backfire
  • June 8, 12:00-13:00, room t.b.a.  POSTPONED
    Daylín Góngora (MPE)
    t.b.a.
  • June 15, 12:00-13:00, room t.b.a. POSTPONED
    Devrim Dumludag (Marmara University) & Özge Gökdemir (Istanbul University)
    t.b.a.
  • June 22, 12:00-13:00, room G1.01
    Oda Sund (University of Amsterdam)
    Randomness or a higher power? –How religion relates to inequality acceptance
 
 

Fall 2022

September

  • September 1, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24 & Zoom
    David Albrecht (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    The Debt Aversion Survey Module
  • September 8, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
    Arno Riedl (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    Global Competition Favors Cooperative Strategies in Indirect Reciprocal Interactions
  • September 15, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
    Jenna Barrett (Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management)
    The correspondence between objective and subjective financial well-being: Evidence from a nationally representative sample
  • September 22, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23 & Zoom
    Leticia Micheli (University of Würzburg) & Bruno Martorano (UNU-MERIT)
    The impact of information about inequality on students’ educational aspirations
  • September 28 (WEDNESDAY), 13:00-14:00, H0.06 & Zoom
    Frauke Stehr (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    Dodging high impact behavior with motivated beliefs


October

  • October 6, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.03
    Lidingrong Huang (Department of Finance)
    Customers Reciprocate
  • October 13, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
    Milan Van Steenvoort (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    Does a gender-biased stopping rule really decrease fertility?
  • October 20, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
    Hannes Rusch & Peter Werner (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    Open Science


November

  • November 3, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
    Martin Strobel (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    Measuring Betrayal Aversion
  • November 10, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
    Michal Bodický (MPE)
    Human decision-making in chess: An evaluation by computer analysis
  • November 17, 12:00-13:00, A0.23
    Thomas Post (Department of Finance)
    Cognitive constraints, planned savings and downstream economic behaviors
  • November 24, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
    James Wilkinson & Tobias Otto
    Cognitive fatigue and effort-based decision-making


December

  • December 7 (WEDNESDAY), 12:00-13:00, A0.23
    Giannis Lois (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    The role of social identity in updating factual beliefs: identity-based discounting or biased prior impressions?
  • December 15, 12:00-13:00, A0.23
    Lina M. Lozano (NYU Abu Dhabi)
    Attribution of failure and success in strategic settings

Spring 2022

January

  • January 27, 12:00-13:00, ZoomElias Tsakas (MPE)
    Identification of misreported beliefs

February

  • February 3, 12:00-13:00, ZoomXinxin Zhu (Department of Finance)
    How does financial education influence investor portfolio allocation? An experimental analysis.
  • February 10, 12:00-13:00, TAP11 D0.014 & ZoomLars Wittrock (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    Belief Updating and Misinformation
  • February 17, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomPaul Bokern (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    The nature of risk attitudes – Evidence from a large population sample
  • February 24, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomAdriana Iamnitchi (Institute of Data Science)
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Social Media

March

  • March 3, 12:00-13:00, A1.23 & ZoomPeter Werner (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    On common evaluation standards and the acceptance of wage inequality
  • March 10, 12:00-13:00, ZoomAnne Friesacher (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    Examining the relationship between acute stress and social preferences
  • March 17, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomDiogo Geraldes (Utrecht University)
    Women Dislike Competing Against Men
  • March 24, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomChristoph Semken (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
    The Marginal Impact of Emission Reductions
  • March 31, 12:00-13:00, A1.23 & ZoomAnouk Festjens (Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management )
    The effect of financial constraints on economic decision-making

April

  • April 7, 12:00-13:00, G1.01 & ZoomEveline Vandewal (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex and the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Strategic Reasoning
  • April 21, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomHannes Rusch (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    Groupiness in the field – Intermediate results
  • April 28, 12:00-13:00, A0.23 & ZoomJames Tremewan
    Reasoning and persuasion in social dilemmas

May

  • May 12, 12:00-13:00, A0.23 & ZoomPaul Smeets (Department of Finance)
    Are investors willing to pay for sustainable investments?
  • May 19, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomPeiran Jiao (Department of Finance)
    Dynamic inconsistency in risky investment decisions

June

  • June 2, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomKatlijn Haesebrouck (Department of Accounting and Information Management)
    Motivating Effortful Information Acquisition and Honest Reporting: The Effect of Input, Output, and Hybrid Control
  • June 9, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomStefan Flagner (Department of Finance (SBE) & Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences (FHML))
    The impact of indoor carbon dioxide on human cognition and health
  • June 16, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomMax Löffler (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
    Welfare Effects of Property Taxation
  • June 23, 12.00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomPeiran Jiao (Department of Finance)
    Taste, Asymmetric Updating, and Valuation

 

Fall 2021

September

  • September 16, 12:30-13:30, ZoomAlexander Vostroknutov (MPE)
    Affective Decision Making
  • September 23, 12:30-13:30, ZoomPedro González Fernández (MPE)
    Individual Heterogeneity in Probabilistic Judgement and the Role of Ownership
  • September 30, 12:30-13:30, ZoomMarvin Gleue (University of Münster/Ruhr University Bochum)
    Moral Balancing in Sustainable Behavior

November

  • November 4, 12:30-13:30, ZoomChristopher Kops (KE)
    Testing Negative Value of Information and Ambiguity Aversion
  • November 11, 12:30-13:30, ZoomBin Dong (Finance)
    Belief, Ambiguity Perception, and Norm following – Meesman Project
  • November 18, 12:30-13:30, ZoomPol Herrero Castillo
    Are you sure? Heuristics & Biases and COVID-19
  • November 23 (WEDNESDAY), 12:30-13:30, ZoomNickolas Gagnon (Aarhus University)
    Ideals and Norms of Discrimination

 

Spring 2021

February

  • February 18, 12:30-13:30, ZoomFrauke Stehr (MPE)
    Dodging High Impact Behavior with Motivated Beliefs
  • February 25, 12:30-13:30, ZoomJenna Barrett (MSCM)
    Experience sampling for promoting pension savings

March

  • March 11, 12:30-13:30, ZoomDavid Albrecht (MPE)
    Collective intelligence despite hidden agendas: Antidotes to manipulation in small group forecasting
  • March 18, 12:30-13:30, ZoomOda Kristine Storstad Sund (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
    Unleveling the playing-field? Parents’ willingness to give their child an advantage
  • March 25, 12:30-13:30, ZoomEveline Vandewal (MPE)
    Reciprocity and information search in the prisoner’s dilemma game

April

  • April 8, 12:30-13:30, ZoomGiannis Lois (MPE)
    Prospects of upward mobility or political inequality:  Antecedents of the persistent economic inequality

May

  • May 20, 12:30-13:30Peter Werner (MPE)
    The value of honest feedback
  • May 27, 12:30-13:30Caroline Goukens (MW)
    The Zero Price Effect(s). Why offering something for free can act as a double-edge sword

June

  • June 3, 12:30-13:30Matthias Wibral (MPE)
  • June 17, 12:30-13:30Eveline Vandewal (MPE)
    Social Preferences and Information Search in Strategic Games: An Online Experiment
  • June 24, 12:30-13:30Paul Smeets (Finance)
    Investor Memory
    A gut feeling: How your gut and brain determine your choices
  • Aline Dantas (MSCM & FPN)

July

  • July 1, 11:30 – 12:30Peter Werner (MPE)
    The impact of co-benefits on voluntary climate change mitigation