International Conference on
Cognitive Economics

New Bulgarian University, Aula

Sofia, August 5-8, 2005

Schedule

Friday, August 5^th, 2005

9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks

Morning session chair: Eldar Shafir

9:15-10:00 Key speaker: Salvatore Rizzello & Marco Novarese (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)

The Intermingling between Cognitive Economics and Experimental Economics: A Few Remarks on History, Methodology and Applications

10:15-11:00 Key speaker: Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Instinctive and Cognitive Reasoning: A Response Times Study

11:15-12:00 Key speaker: Daniel Houser (George Mason University, USA)

Emotion Expression in Human Punishment Behavior

12:15-12:45 Panel Discussion: Ariel Rubinstein, Daniel Houser, Marco Novarese; Moderator: Eldar Shafir

Lunch (Artes Restaurant)

Afternoon session chair: Ariel Rubinstein

14:00-14:45 Key speaker: Eldar Shafir (Princeton University, USA)

Principled choice and mindless matching

15:00-15:45 Key speaker: Massimo Egidi (University of Trento, Italy)

Dualism in Cognitive Processes behind Biased Decision Making

16:00-16:45 Key speaker: Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University)

Conscious and Unconscious Influences on Risk-Taking Behavior

17:00-18:00 Panel Discussion: Eldar Shafir, Massimo Egidi, Boicho Kokinov; Moderator: Ariel Rubinstein

18:00-20:30 Welcome Party (Artes Restaurant)

Saturday, August 6^th, 2005

Morning session chair: Daniel Houser

9:00-9:45 Key speaker: Andrew Colman (Leicester University, UK)

Ambiguous Games and Strategic Ambiguity Aversion

10:00-10:45 Key speaker: Bernard Walliser (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris France)

To Know or not to Know: Information Value in Semantic Games

11:00-11:45 Key speaker: Maurice Grinberg (New Bulgarian University)

Context Effects in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Game

12:00-12:30 Panel Discussion: Andrew Colman, Bernard Walliser, Maurice Grinberg; Moderator: Daniel Houser

Lunch (Artes Restaurant)

Session Chair: Marco Novarese

14:00-15:00 Cognitive Mechanisms of Economic Choice and Judgment

Note on Ways of Saving: Mental Mechanisms as Tools for Self-Control?

Philipp Otto (Univ. Warwick, UK), Greg Davies (Univ. Cambridge, UK), Nick Chater (Univ. Warwick, UK)

Influence of Irrelevant Information on Price Judgments

Penka Hristova, Georgi Petkov, Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University)

The "Magic Step" of Judgment-Based Software Effort Estimation

Magne Jørgensen (Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway)

Session Chair: Massimo Egidi

15:20-16:20 Cognitive Mechanisms of Economic Choice and Judgment

Images and Economic Behavior

Roberta Patalano (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy)

Does Bounded Rationality Lead to Individual Heterogeneity? The Impact of the Experimentation Process and Memory Constraints

Marco Casari (Purdue University, USA)

Entrepreneur’s Interpretation and Market Coordination in Subjectivist Perspective

Fu-Lai Tony Yu (Feng Chia University, Taiwan)

Natural Logics and Cognitive Economics

Irina Ezhkova (International Institute of Applied Technologies, Belgium)

Session Chair: Alan Kirman

16:40-18:00 Collective Behavior and Team Performance

Collective Choice based on Imperfect Choice Information

Yasumi Matsumoto (School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Japan)

Individual Satisfaction, Learning and Team Performance An Experimental Study

Marco Novarese (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)

The Effect of Group Identity in an Investment Game

Werner Gueth (Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Germany), Vittoria Levati (Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Germany), Matteo Ploner (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy)

Herding: An Interdisciplinary Integrative Review from a Socionomic Perspective

Wayne Parker (Socionomics Foundation), Robert Prechter (Emory Univ)

18:15-19:00 Discussion: Cognitive Mechanisms of Economic Choice and Judgment; Moderator: Alan Kirman

Dinner (Artes Restaurant) 19:00-20:30

Sunday, August 7^th, 2005

Session Chair: Bernard Walliser

9:00-10:00 Cognitive Aspects of Game Theoretic Models

Comparing Nash Sellers to Adaptive Sellers

Eric Darmon (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France), Roger Waldeck (GET ENST-Bretagne, France)

Cognition, Knowledge, Convention Formation in Repeated Coordination Games:

An Experimental Investigation

Sudeep Ghosh (City University of Hong Kong)

Strategies in Playing Iterated Prisoner's Dillemma Game: An Information Acquisition Study

Maurice Grinberg, Evgenija Hristova, Maria Popova (New Bulgarian University)

10:20-11:20 Cognitive Aspects of Game Theoretic Models

Influence of Social Motivation over Belief Dynamics: A Game-Theoretical Analysis

Fabio Paglieri (Univ Siena, Italy), Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR, Roma, Italy)

Conformist Preferences and Reciprocity in the "Exclusion Game"

Marco Faillo, Lorenzo Sacconi (Univ of Trento, Italy)

Competition for Scarce Resources: Can Indecision Improve Agents’ Adaptation and Coordination?

Pierre Barbaroux (Centre of Research of the French Air Force Academy), Gilles Enée (University of Antilles-Guadeloupe, France)

11:30-12:15 Discussion: Collective Behavior and Game Theoretic Models

Moderator: Bernard Walliser

Lunch (Artes Restaurant)

13:00-21:00 Trip to Rila Monastery

(no arranged dinner as we will come late – there are a number of restaurants at picturesque places around Rila monastery where you can arrange dinner on your own)

Monday, August 8^th, 2005

Morning session chair: Andrew Colman

9:00-9:45 Key speaker: Robin Hogarth (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Regions of Rationality: Maps for Bounded Agents

10:00-10:45 Key speaker: Jean-Robert Tyran (Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark)

Individual Irrationality and Aggregate Outcomes

11:00-11:45 Key speaker: Alan Kirman (Univ. Marseilles, France)

Do Individuals Learn to Play Nash? Evidence from Public Good Games.

12:00-12:30 Panel Discussion: Robin Hogarth, Jean-Robert Tyran, Alan Kirman; Moderator: Andrew Colman

Lunch (Artes Restaurant)

Session Chair: Jean-Robert Tyran

14:00-15:00 Economic Behavior and Moral Cost

A Cognitive Model of Altruistic Mind

Emiliano Lorini, Francesca Marzo (Univ Siena), Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR, Rome, Italy)

Cooperation and Free-Riding with Moral Cost

Mirta Gordon (IMAG, Grenoble, France), Denis Phan (CNRS), Roger Waldeck (ENST-Bretagne), Jean-Piere Nadal (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)

Fair Salaries and the Moral Costs of Corruption

Klaus Abbink (University of Nottingham, UK)

Session Chair: Jean-Robert Tyran

15:20-16:20 Cross-Cultural Studies of Economic Behavior

A Cross-Cultural Study of Emotions in Social Dilemmas

Benedikt Herrmann (Harvard Univ., USA)

Reform and Russian Attitudes Towards the Market: Evidence from Experimental Economics

Andrew Austin (CERGE-EI, Prague), Tatyana Kosyaeva (Russian Academy of Sciences), Nathaniel Wilcox (Houston Univ. USA)

Session Chair: Robin Hogarth

16:40-17:40 Cognitive Aspects of Game Theoretic Models

Frames and Games

Jordi Brandts (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC), Christiane Schwieren (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Empirical fit versus theoretical over-determination of lexicographic decision rules

Nathan Berg (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)

Dynamic decision-making under risk and ambiguity: individual decisions and market institutions

Tim Capon (Griffith University, Australia)

18:00-19:00 Concluding Discussion: Main Issues in Cognitive Economics; Moderator: Robin Hogarth

Dinner (Artes Restaurant) 19:00-21:00