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University of Hamburg – Behavioral & Experimental Economics (PhD Course)

(The course takes place on four Fridays. Sessions are scheduled in both the winter term and the summer term, such that participants have sufficient time to develop and run their experiments)

14th December 2018, 18th January 2019, 22nd February, 7th June

10:00 – 16:00 h

Universität Hamburg (more details follow)

Course Instructor: Prof. Dr. Markus Nöth and Prof. Dr. Guido Voigt (both UHH)

Course Value: 2 SWS or 5 LP

Teaching language: English

Registration: guido.voigt@uni-hamburg.de, (First come, first-served)

Objectives:
The main goal of this course is to introduce the design and implementation of both laboratory and field experiments in various fields of Economics and Business Administration. PhD students who have some experience with or who consider to set up an experiment are welcome to participate in this course.

First, we will identify different research questions for a laboratory or a field experiment. We start with discussing critical theory assumptions. We then show how research hypotheses can be inferred from behavioral models and how these hypotheses may be tested in lab or field studies.

Second, participants will critically discuss an experimental paper (either provided by us or self-selected) that is instructive for their own research field.

Third, participants will develop an experimental design and conduct a pilot experiment
that is run in class. We introduce basic statistics along with a discussion how they relate
to the experimental design.

Participants have the option to take a research ethics training (https://about.citiprogram.org/en/homepage/) that becomes increasingly important to conduct research projects with colleagues from the Unites States. All students will learn the basic requirements of a human subjects committee.

Some topics:

  • Identify a suitable research question for an experiment
  • Ethical and scientific standards: historical and scientific reasons, consent requirements,
    human subjects committee, special requirements (children, elderly people, inmates, …), data collection and evaluation
  • Individual and group experiments in the laboratory
  • Surveys and internet experiments
  • Field experiments in cooperation with a company

Schedule (tentative)

Day Topics Suggested Readings
1st SessionIntroduction to the field

Game theoretic models, critical assumptions, Behavioral Models and
Research Hypothesis

Laboratory Experiments
Katok 2012
2nd SessionPresentation and discussion of assigned papers.

Statistics & Design Choices

IRB, Field-Experiments
Baum 2006,
Sheskin 2011
3rd SessionPresentation of research (Problem Description, Research Hypothesis, Experimental design)

Visit of Experimentallabor (z-Tree, Eye-Tracking, etc.)
4th SessionPresentation of pilot studies (Note: Pilot studies need to be scheduled independently by participants)

Prerequisites:
Basic background in microeconomics, game theory and statistics.

Student evaluation:

  • Critical discussion of an experimental paper, experiment design presentation (extended summary on economic question, relevant literature, hypotheses, design: presentation with max. 10 slides or max. five pages extended abstract).
  • Running a pilot experiment is optional, but encouraged.

Recommended Texts:
Statistical analysis
Baum, C. F. 2006. An introduction to modern econometrics using Stata. Stata press
Camerer, C, 2003, Behavioral Game Theory, Princeton University Press.
Kagel, J. and A. Roth, 1995, Handbook of Experimental Economics, Princeton University
Press.
Sheskin, D. J. 2011. Handbook of parametric and nonparametric statistical procedures.
5. ed. CRC Press.
How to design laboratory experiments
Katok, E. 2012. Using laboratory experiments to build better operations management
models. Foundations and trends in technology, information and operations management 5(1) 1–88.

Other material (e.g., papers to be presented etc.) will be distributed once we know
who participates

Call for Papers: 10 Jahre nach der Weltfinanzkrise: New Economic Thinking – Beginn einer Transformation von Wirtschaftspolitik und Wirtschaftswissenschaft

Veranstalter: AK Politische Ökonomie, Zentrum für Ökonomische und Soziologische Studien (ZÖSS) am FB Sozialökonomie der Universität Hamburg, World Economic Association (WEA) – German Chapter

Ort: Hamburg

Zeit: 16. – 18. November 2018

Die Wirtschaftswissenschaften befinden sich in einem kritischen Zustand: Sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der Lehre und der Politikberatung hat sich ein weitgehender modelltheoretischer Monismus etabliert, der gleichermaßen alternative paradigmatische Herangehensweisen marginalisiert wie er im Lehralltag in einseitiger und unkritischer Weise eine ökonomische Perspektive an zukünftige Forschergenerationen und Praktiker weitergibt, die von immer größeren Teilen der Studentenschaft als zu eng und realitätsfern kritisiert wird. Und die sich darauf stützende Politikberatung lässt große Teile pluraler Gesellschaften ohne akademische Ansprechpartner zurück.

Dies alles hat im Zusammenspiel im realökonomischen Entwicklungen – insbesondere die Weltfinanzkrise nach 2008 und der nachfolgenden Eurokrise – zu schwindender Glaubwürdigkeit der Ökonomik als ernstzunehmende Disziplin bei Studierenden, Praktikern und Politikern geführt und den Ruf nach einer größeren Pluralisierung der Wirtschaftswissenschaften hinsichtlich ihrer epistemologischen Konzepte und der Breite wirtschaftspolitischer Alternativkonzepte laut werden lassen.

Die Tagung befasst sich gleichermaßen mit den Bestimmungsgründen dieser Entwicklung und den Perspektiven einer transformierten Ökonomik, wie sie vielerorts als ‚New Economic Thinking‘ gefordert wird, wie mit der Frage nach den wirtschaftspolitischen Lehren der Weltfinanzkrise und der Suche nach Anzeichen für eine wirtschaftspolitische Reorientierung.
Mögliche Themenbereiche

  • Zum Zustand und den Entwicklungsbedingungen der Wirtschaftswissenschaft
  • Transformation der Ökonomik – aber wohin?
  • Institutionelle und politische Ökonomik der Transformation der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
  • Pluralisierung der ökonomischen Ausbildung
  • Zukunft der heterodoxen Ökonomik
  • Wirtschafts- und sozialpolitische Beratung ohne Alternativen?
  • Wirtschaftspolitik nach der Weltfinanzkrise
  • Reformen des europäischen Governance-Systems – aus der Krise gelernt?

Wir bitten um die Zusendung eines Abstracts (1/2 – 1 Seite) an:
Prof. Dr. Arne Heise, ZÖSS, Universität Hamburg
Arne.Heise@uni-hamburg.de
Willkommen sind auch Vorschläge, eigene Sessions innerhalb der Tagung zu organisieren.

Deadline: Mo, 24. September 2018

University of Hamburg – School of Business: Behavioral & Experimental Economics

Institution: Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft

Course Instructors: Prof. Dr. Markus Nöth and Prof. Dr. Guido Voigt (both UHH)

Course Value: 2 SWS/4 LP

Date: The course takes place on four Fridays in the summer term 2018: 6.4. / 20.4. / 18.5. / 6.7., 10-12.30h and 13.30-16h

Place: Universität Hamburg

Room: tba

Language of instruction: English

Registration: Please contact stefanie.nonnsen@uni-hamburg.de (first come, first-served)

Course Overview & Contents:
The course discusses the basic steps of performing behavioral research. We start with discussing critical assumptions of game theoretic models. We then show how research hypotheses can be inferred from behavioral models and how these hypotheses may be tested in lab studies. Critical design factors of laboratory experiments and the most commonly applied statistical tests will be presented.
We will further visit the Lab at the UHH while discussing options (e.g. eye-tracking) and limits
(e.g. subject pool, size of the lab) for conducting lab experiments at UHH. The course also provides an overview of commonly applied software tools that are used for behavioral modelling (Maple), software for computerized experiments (z-Tree), and statistical analysis (Stata). Ethical aspects of conducting laboratory experiments underpin the theoretical/fundamental part of this course.
Based on these theoretical foundations, participants are asked to design an experiment. The
presentations will be the basis for passing/failing the course. The topic of the experiment is
open. We may also suggest a topic. If this is the case, please send your research interest along
with the registration.

Prerequisites: Basic background in microeconomics, game theory and statistics.

Assessment: Assessment will be based on active participation. Grading for students
of University of Hamburg will be pass/fail.

More information: https://www.bwl.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/promotion/phd-kurs-noeth-voigt-ss18.pdf

HSU-Doktorandenweiterbildung 2017: Game Theory Reloaded – A Postgraduate Course

Institution: Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (HSU)

Lecturer: Klaus Beckmann, Chair of Public Economics, Helmut Schmidt University

Dates & places:

  1. 18. September 2017: Introduction, Seminarraum 0110, H1, HSU
  2. 20. September 2017: Intermediate Topics, Seminarraum 0110 H1, HSU
  3. 21. September 2017: Advanced Topics and Extensions, Seminarraum 0109, H1, HSU

Starting time-finishing time on each day: 09:00-16:30

Language of instruction: English or German, depending on the course composition (to be decided upon at the beginning of the course).

Registration:
To register for the course, please click here. Non-members of the Helmut-Schmidt-Universität may firstly click here to create an HSU-Ilias-account, and secondly use the first link to join the course.

Contents:
See https://hermes.hsu-hh.de/~ac/kursplan-spieltheorie-seminar.pdf for the course contents.

Feel free to attend individual days or course offerings according to your prior knowledge or liking.

 

Experimental Economics

Institution: Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft

Course instructor: Prof. Dr. Markus Nöth (Universität Hamburg)

Date: block course:

April 7 th, 2017: 8:15am-5:00pm (10*45min)
May 5th, 2017: 8:15am-1:00pm (6*45min)
June 2nd, 2017: 8:15am-5:00pm (10*45min)
June 21st, 2017: 6:00pm-7:30pm (2*45min)

Room: tbd (Moorweidenstraße 18, Von-Melle-Park 5 (ExpLab))

Course Value: 2 SWS or 4 LP

Teaching language: English

Registration: Send an email to markus.noeth@uni-hamburg.de until March 17th, 2017; please indicate if you prefer some specific topics to be covered.

Course Overview:
The main goal of this course is to give an introduction to the design and implementation of both laboratory and field experiments in various fields of Economics and Business Administration. PhD students who have some experience with or who consider to set up an experiment are welcome to participate in this course. First, we will identify different research questions for a laboratory or a field experiment. Second, based on a literature review (for some research fields that are proposed by the participants) an experimental design is developed and a pilot experiment will be set up and run in class. As part of this exercise, students will learn the basic requirements of a human subjects committee.

Topics:

  • Identify a suitable research question for an experiment
  • Ethical and scientific standards: historical and scientific reasons, consent requirements, human subjects committee, special requirements (children, elderly people, inmates, …), data collection and evaluation
  • Individual and group experiments in the laboratory
  • Surveys and internet experiments
  • Field experiments in cooperation with a company

General literature:

  • Kagel, John H., and Alvin E. Roth, 1995, The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Princeton University Press, Princeton/Oxford
  • Gerber, Alan S., and Donald P. Green, 2012, Field Experiments, W.W. Norton & Company, London/New York.
  • Kagel, John H., and Alvin E. Roth, 2015, The Handbook of Experimental Economics Volume 2, Princeton University Press, Princeton/Oxford

Assessment:

  • Paper presentation (May 5th)
  • experiment design presentation (extended summary on economic question, relevant literature, hypotheses, design: presentation with max. 10 slides or max. five pages extended abstract)
  • running a pilot experiment is optional

University of Hamburg: HCHE Research Seminar and PhD Course 24 to 25 April 2017

Institution: Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE)

Course instructor: Professor Mike Drummond, Professor of Health Economics and former Director of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York

Date: 24-25 April 2017

Time:

  • 24 April: arrival of Prof. Mike Drummond, individual meetings (please ask for an appointment: andrea.buekow@uni-hamburg.de)
  • 24 April, 4:30 pm: HCHE Research Seminar Title: Where politics and economics collide: the case of orphan drugs
  • 25 April, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm: PhD Course Title: Methodological and Policy Issues in Economic Evaluation

Place: HCHE, Esplanade 36

  • HCHE Research Seminar: Rooms 4011/13
  • PhD Course: Rooms 4030/31

Credit Points: 1 SWS/2 LP (Universität Hamburg)

Teaching language: English

Registration for the PhD Course:  andrea.buekow@uni-hamburg.de, no later than 14 April 2017