Venice Summer Institute

	Venice Summer Institute Workshop on "Behavioural Public Economics" Venice International University, San Servolo, 8-9 July 2009
	Programme
	Wednesday, 08 July 2009

	Session 1
08:30 - 08:40	Opening Remarks
08:40 - 09:15	The Impact of Cooperation Defaults on Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods STEFAN ALTMANN and Armin Falk
09:15 - 09:50	A Simple Endogenous Provision-Point Mechanism: Experimental Evidence RUPERT SAUSGRUBER, Julian Rauchdobler ans Jean-Robert Tyran
09:50 - 10:20	Coffee break
	Session 2
10:20 - 10:55	Do Economic Policymakers Practice what They Preach? The Case of Pension Decisions MOMI DAHAN, Tehila Kogut and Moshe Shalem
10:55 - 11:30	Eliciting People´s Preferences for Potential Reforms of the Irish State Pension System YOSR ABID FOURATI and Cathal O`Donoghue
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00	Keynote Lecture Institutions and Sociality ARNO RIEDL
13:00 -14:20	Lunch Break
	Session 3
14:20 - 14:55	Coordination and Communication in Multiparty Elections with Costly Voting REBECCA MORTON, Bernhard Kittel and Wolfgang Luhan
14:55 - 15:30	Voting on Punishment Systems within a Heterogeneous Group FANGFANG TAN and Charles N. Noussair
15:00 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Session 4
16:00 - 16:35	Are Income and Consumption Taxes ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment with Real Goods TOMER BLUMKIN, Bradley J. Ruffle and Yosef Ganun
16:35 - 17:10	The Political Economy of Sin Taxes KAISA KOTAKORPI and Markus Haavio
17:10 - 17:45	Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a God Day: Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed ANDREAS KNABE, Steffen Rätzel, Ronni Schöb and Joachim Weimann
19:30	Conference Dinner
	Thursday, 9 July 2009
	Session 5
08:30 - 08:40	Get Together
08:40 - 09:15	Can Integrity Replace Institutions? Theory and Evidence GILAD D. AHARONOVITZ, Nathan Skuza and Faysal Fahs
09:15 - 09:50	Disentangling the Sources of Pro-Social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment MIRCO TONIN and Michael Vlassopoulos
09:50 - 10:20	Coffee Break
	Session 6
10:20 - 10:55	Merit Wants, Community Values and Expressive Voting MICHAEL BROOKS and John Head
10:55 - 11:30	Effects of Predictable Tax Liability Variation on Household Labor Income Peter Katuscak and NAOMI E. FELDMAN
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00	Keynote Lecture Old George Orwell Got it Backward: Some Thoughts on Behavioral Tax Economics JOEL SLEMROD
13:00 - 14:20	Lunch Break
	Session 7
14:20 - 14:55	Social Security Reform and Temptation CAGRI SEDA KUMRU and Athanasios C. Thaanopoulos
14:55 - 15:30	Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A Prefernce-Based Lucas Critique of Public Policy SANDRA POLANIA REYES and Samuel Bowles
15:30 - 15:35	Concluding Remarks
	End of Conference

Venice Summer Institute Workshop on "Behavioural Public Economics"

Venice International University, San Servolo, 8-9 July 2009

Programme

Wednesday, 08 July 2009

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Venice Summer Institute
Workshop on
"Behavioural Public Economics"