BUE-EBEL Inaugural (Virtual) Conference Program 25th February 2021

The British University in Egypt is delighted to invite you to attend the Experimental and Behavioural Economics Laboratory (EBEL) Inaugural Virtual Conference on Thursday 25th February 2021.

The conference program:

NB: All times are in Cairo Time (GMT+2) 10:45 – 11:00 Inaugural Speech, BUE Senior Management
11:00 – 11:45

Inaugural Session
Prejudice and Misperceptions: On Generosity and Discrimination between Cultures and Genders
Andreas Lange
University of Hamburg
15 minutes Break
12:00 – 12:30

Session I
Chair: Stefan Voigt, University of Hamburg
The Experimental Big Picture: Design, Samples, Data and Machines
Raymound Duch
Oxford University
Parental Paternalism and Patience
Matthias Sutter
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bonn
12:30 – 13:00 15 minutes Break
13:15 – 13:45

Session II
Chair: Stefania Bortolotti, University of Bologna
Incentives for Conformity and Anti-conformity
Urs Fischbacher
University of Konstanz
13:45 – 14:15
Collective Action and Wellbeing in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the NHS Volunteer Responders
Christian Krekel
London School of Economics
30 minutes Break
14:45 – 15:15

Session III
Chair: Rania Miniesy, The British University in Egypt
Moral Transgressions by Groups: What Drives Individual Behavior?
Gerd Muehlheusser
University of Hamburg
15:15 – 15:45
Insurance in the Household: Individual Risk, Household Risk and Intrahousehold
Inequality
Astrid Hopfensitz
Toulouse School of Economics
15 minutes Break
16:00 – 16:30

Session IV
Chair: Hossein Radmard, American University in Beirut
Identifying Cultural Traits from on-line Surveys: Social Capital in Italy and
Family Background
Michela Redoano
University of Warwick
16:30 – 17:00
Fasting and Honesty: Experimental Evidence from Egypt
Dina Rabie
The British University in Egypt
30 minutes Break
17:30 – 18:00

Session V
Chair: Sarah Mansour, Cairo University
A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Land Division
Cesar Mantilla
University of Rosario
No Man is an Island – Trust, Trustworthiness, and Social Capital among
Syrian Refugees in Germany
18:00 – 18:30
Andreas Nicklisch
Centre for Economic Policy Research
15 minutes Break
18:45 – 19:15

Session VI
Chair: Jerg Gutmann, University of Hamburg
Religious Messages, Social Identity, and Charitable Giving: Evidence
from Qatar
Michael Price
University of Alabama
19:15 – 19:45
Is the Democracy Premium WEIRD? A Tale of Two Countries
Fanny Schories
University of Hamburg
19:45 – 20:00 Concluding Remarks, EBEL Founders

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