CESifo Area Conferences

	Venice Summer Institute Workshop on "Behavioural Welfare Economics" Venice International University, San Servolo, 21-22 July 2010
	Programme
	Wednesday, 21 July 2010

9:00 - 9:15	Welcome
9:15 - 10:15	Keynote Lecture: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Policy Evaluation when Decision Makers are not Entirely Rational DOUGLAS BERNHEIM (Stanford University)
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee Break

	Session 1: Sources of Inequaltiy and Fairness Chair and Discussant: Frank Cowell (LSE)
10:30 - 11:10	Fairness and Uncertainty ELENA CETTOLIN (Maastricht University) and Arno Riedl (Maastricht University)
11:10 - 11:50	The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust - An Experimental Study PETER WERNER (University of Cologne), Ben Greiner (University of New South Wales) and Axel Ockenfels (University of Cologne)
11:50 - 12:30	How Exposure to Markets Can Favour Inequaity-Averse Preferences ROBERTAS ZUBRICKAS (University of Zurich)
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch

	Session 2: Welfare State Preferences Chair and Discussant: Mireia Jofre-Bonet (City University London)
13:30 - 14:10	Sick of the Welfare State? Sticky Stigma and Demand for Social Insurance MARTIN LJUNGE (Copenhagen University)
14:10 - 14:50	Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution ILJA NEUSTADT (University of Zurich) and Peter Zweifel (University of Zurich)
14:50 -15:30	Social Identity and Preference for Solidarity: A Survey JOAN COSTA-I-FONT (London School of Economics) and Frank Cowell (London School of Economics)
15:30 - 15:45	Coffee Break
	Session 3: Explanations of Cohesion and Poverty Chair and Discussant: Maria Cubel (University of Barcelona)
15:45 - 16:25	An Approach to Sympathy and Commitment Mireira Jofre-Bonet (City University London), ALISTAIR McGUIRE (London School of Economics) and Maria Raikou (London School of Economics)
16:25 - 17:05	Do Tropical Typhoons Smash Community Ties? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam YANOS ZYLBERBERG (Paris School of Economics)
17:05 - 17:45	Poverty and Aspirations Failure: A Theoretical Framework PATRICIO DALTON (CentER - Tilburg University) and Sayantan Ghosal (University of Warwick)
19:30	Conference Dinner

	Thursday, 22 July 2009

09:00 - 10:00	Keynote Lecture: Fairness, Happiness and Preferences ERIK SCHOKKAERT (Catholic University Leuven & CORE)
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
	Session 4: Pro-Social Behaviour Chair and Discussant: Sayantan Ghosal (Warwick University)
10:30 - 11:10	Competition for Trophies Triggers Male Generosity SOPHIA PAN (George Mason University) and Daniel Houser (George Mason University)
11:10 - 11:50	Disentangling the Sources of Pro-Social Behaviour in the Workplace: A Field Experiment MICHAEL VLASSOPOULOS (University of Southampton) and Mirco Tonin (University of Southampton)
11:50 - 12:30	Will Joe the Plumber Envy Bill Gates? The Impact of both Absolute and Relative Differences on Individual Satisfaction and Well-Being JÉREMY CELSE (University of Montpellier)
12:30 - 13:15	Lunch & End of Conference

Venice Summer Institute Workshop on

"Behavioural Welfare Economics"

Venice International University, San Servolo, 21-22 July 2010

Programme

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Session 1: Sources of Inequaltiy and Fairness Chair and Discussant: Frank Cowell (LSE)

Session 2: Welfare State Preferences Chair and Discussant: Mireia Jofre-Bonet (City University London)

Session 3: Explanations of Cohesion and Poverty Chair and Discussant: Maria Cubel (University of Barcelona)

Thursday, 22 July 2009

Session 4: Pro-Social Behaviour Chair and Discussant: Sayantan Ghosal (Warwick University)

Venice Summer Institute
Workshop on

Session 1: Sources of Inequaltiy and Fairness
Chair and Discussant: Frank Cowell (LSE)

Session 2: Welfare State Preferences
Chair and Discussant: Mireia Jofre-Bonet (City University London)

Session 3: Explanations of Cohesion and Poverty
Chair and Discussant: Maria Cubel (University of Barcelona)

Session 4: Pro-Social Behaviour
Chair and Discussant: Sayantan Ghosal (Warwick University)