Sessions Organized by the Canadian Experimental and Behavioural Economics Research Group (CEBERG) for the Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, 6-8 June 2008

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS: All sessions are 90 minutes and contain 3 papers. As a result we will plan for 20 minute presentations, 5 minute discussions leaving 5 minutes for discussion from the floor for each paper.

Friday 0830 - 1000

Investment Strategies and Information

Chair: Andrew Muller (McMaster)

• [0218] Andreas Park (Toronto) and Daniel Sgroi:
  When Herding and Contrarianism foster Market Efficiency: A Financial Trading Experiment [C9,G0 = Financial Economics]
• [0571] Yuri Khoroshilov (Ottawa):
  Basic Financial Data and Behavior of Investors with Limited Knowledge of Finance: an Experimental Study [C9]
• [0928] Philippe Gregoire (Laval), Hui Huang, and Jonathan Coupland:
  Informed and Uninformed Trading with Correlated Assets: An Experiment [C9]

Discussants: Richard Martin (Regina)

John Spraggon (Massachusetts at Amherst)

Stephan Schott (Carleton)

Friday 1030 - 1200

Taking the Lab to the Field: Studies of Voluntary Contributions, Wage Subsidies and a Marriage Market

Chair: Stuart Mestelman (McMaster)

• [0431] Richard Martin (Regina) and John Randal:
  The effect of researcher scrutiny on donation behaviour [C9]
• [0628] Dany Brouillette (Laval) and Bernard Fortin:
  Impact of a Wage Subsidy in Québec: An Experimental Approach [C9,J0=Labour Economics]
• [0866] Subhasish Dugar (Calgary), Haimanti Bhattacharya, David Reiley, and Ramya Sundaram:
  Marriage in the Shadow of Caste: A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Marriage Market [C9]

Discussants: Rob Moir (New Brunswick at Saint John)

Amadou Boly (Montreal)

Barbara Bloemhof (McMaster)

Friday 1400 - 1530

Belief Formation, Non-Compliance and Responses to Inequality

Chair: Andrew Muller (McMaster)

• [0007] Kyle Hyndman (Southern Methodist), Wolf Ehrblatt, Erkut Ozbay, and Andrew Schotter:
  Belief Formation By Outside Observers [C9]
• [0237] John Spraggon (Massachusetts at Amherst), John Stranlund, and James Murphy:
  A Laboratory Investigation of the Welfare Effects of Imperfectly Enforced Emissions Trading Policies [C9]
• [0992] Alexander Smith (Calgary):
  The Determinants of Trust: An Experimental Approach [C9]

Discussants: Jim Engle-Warnick (McGill)

Dany Bouillette (Laval)

Yuri Khoroshilov (Ottawa)

Friday 1600 - 1730

Experiments Using Public Good or Common Pool Resource Environments

Chair: Stuart Mestelman (McMaster)

• [0634] Rob Moir (New Brunswick at Saint John):
  Voluntary Contributions to Multiple Linear Public Goods [C7=Game Theory and Bargaining Theory,C9]
• [0648] Stephan Schott (Carleton) and Coady Wing:
  The Impact of Information Disclosure and Decentralized E-mail Communication on Common Pool Resource Users' Behaviour [C9,Q2=Resource and Energy Economics]
• [0201] R. Andrew Muller (McMaster), Fin Whillans (Dymaximum):
  A Common Pool Resource Experiment with a Dynamic Stock Externality [C9, Q2]

Discussants: Miguel Alejandro Sánchez Villalba (Alicante, Spain)

Subhasish Dugar (Calgary)

Bram Cadsby (Guelph)

Saturday 0830 - 1000

Studies of Potential Cheating, Tax Evasion, and Corruption

Chair: Andrew Muller (McMaster)

• [0781] Bram Cadsby (Guelph), Fei Song, and Francis Tapon:
  Does Your Compensation Scheme Induce Your Employees to Cheat? An Experimental Investigation [C9,J0=Labour Economics]
• [0770] Miguel Alejandro Sánchez Villalba (Alicante, Spain):
  Tax evasion as a global game in the laboratory. [C9,H0=Public Economics, Taxation, Fiscal Policy]
• [0079] Amadou Boly (Montreal) and Olivier Armantier:
  Can Corruption Be Studied in the Lab? Comparing Evidence from a Field and a Lab Experiment [C9]

Discussants: Jeremy Clark (Canterbury, New Zealand)

Alexander Smith (Calgary)

Philippe Gregoire (Laval)

Saturday 1030 - 1200

Games and Bargaining in the Laboratory

Chair: Stuart Mestelman (McMaster)

• [0215] Jim Engle-Warnick (McGill):
  Five Indefinitely Repeated Games in the Laboratory [C9]
• [0891] Subhasish Dugar (Calgary):
  A `Pure' Backward Induction Experiment [C9]
• [0512] Jeremy Clark (Canterbury, New Zealand) and Christopher Bruce:
  The Effects of Historical Entitlements in Cooperative Bargaining Over Environmental Policy: An Experimental Test [C9,Q3=Environmental Economics]

Discussants: Andreas Park (Toronto)

Stuart Mestelman (McMaster)

Kyle Hyndman (Southern Methodist)

List of Participants and E-mail Address

Barbara Bloemhof (McMaster) bloemhbl@mcmaster.ca

Amadou Boly (Montreal) a.boly@umontreal.ca

Dany Bouillette (Laval) Brouillette.Dany@ic.gc.ca

Bram Cadsby (Guelph) bcadsby@uoguelph.ca

Jeremy Clark (Canterbury, New Zealand) jeremy.clark@canterbury.ac.nz

Subhasish Dugar (Calgary) sdugar@ucalgary.ca

Jim Engle-Warnick (McGill) jim.engle-warnick@mcgill.ca

Philippe Gregoire (Laval) philippe.gregoire@fsa.ulaval.ca

Kyle Hyndman (Southern Methodist) hyndman@smu.edu

Yuri Khoroshilov (Ottawa) khoroshilov@telfer.uottawa.ca

Richard Martin (Regina) rich.p.martin@gmail.com

Stuart Mestelman (McMaster) mestelma@mcmaster.ca

Rob Moir (New Brunswick at Saint John) rmoir@unbsj.ca

R. Andrew Muller (McMaster) mullera@mcmaster.ca

Andreas Park (Toronto) andreas.park@utoronto.ca

Miguel Alejandro Sánchez Villalba (Alicante, Spain) m.a.sanchez.villalba@gmail.com

Stephan Schott (Carleton) sschott@connect.carleton.ca

Alexander Smith (Calgary) smithad@ucalgary.ca

John Spraggon (Massachusetts at Amherst) jmspragg@resecon.umass.edu