CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR AND BOUNDED RATIONALITY June 23 & 24, 2006 Institute for Fiscal Studies, 7 Ridgmount Street, London If you wish to attend this conference, please send an email to Glen Bowness .
If you wish to attend this conference, please send an email to Glen Bowness .
Provisional Programme
Friday
10:30-11:00
Registration and Coffee
11:00
James Banks (joint with Zöe Oldfield) "Understanding pensions: cognitive function, numerical ability and retirement saving"
11:30
Alex Gaudeul and Bob Sugden "Is it possible to exploit innumerate consumers with confusing contract terms?"
12:30-1:30
Sandwich lunch
1:30
Xavier Gabaix (joint with Sumit Agarwal, John Driscoll and David Laibson) "Two steps forward, one step back: the dynamics of learning and backsliding in the consumer credit market" and "Eureka!: Who finds and who fails to find dominating financial strategies"
2:30-3:00
Break
3:00
Dan Goldstein "Consumer preferences for investmentproducts"
3:45
Peter Lukacs "Experience from a consumer protection authority"
4:30-5:00
5:00-6:00
Rani Spiegler (joint with Kfir Eliaz) "Consideration Sets and Competitive Marketing"
Saturday
9:30
Fiona Scott Morton "The endowment effect in the market for used cars"
10:30-10:45
10:45
Emir Kamenica "Contextual inference in markets: on the informational content of product lines"
11:45-12:00
12:00
Tina Chang, Catherine Waddams and Chris Wilson "Do consumers switch to the best supplier?"
1.00-2.00
2:00
Glenn Ellison (joint with Sara Fisher Ellison) "Internet retail demand: taxes, geography and online/offline competition"
3:00-3:15
3:15
Jesse Shapiro "A 'memory-jamming' theory of advertising"
4:15
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Organized by: ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) The support of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) is gratefully acknowledged.
