May 28-29, 2025 at U.C. Berkeley
[with additional events on May, 27, May 29, and May 30]
BEAM 2025 Program
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
2:00-4.45 Workshopping Ph.D. Student Job Market Papers (N340/344, Chou Hall)
- Bnaya Dreyfuss, Harvard University; Tianshu Lyu, Yale University; Hugo Monnery, Harvard University; and Matteo Saccarola, U.C. Berkeley
5:00 Women at BEAM Happy Hour (Faculty Club)
6:00 General Welcome Reception (Faculty Club)
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Main Conference: Spieker Forum, 6th floor of Chou Hall (Haas School of Business)
8:30-9:15 Breakfast Buffet On Site
9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks
9:30-10:15 Muriel Niederle: “Decomposing the Winner’s Curse” (joint with Lea Nagel and Emanuel Vespa)
10:15-11:00 Kirby Nielsen: “When Are Decisions Improvable? An Evaluation of Diagnostic Methods” (joint with Douglas Bernheim, Aldo Lucia, and Charles Sprenger)
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Spencer Kwon: “Beliefs from Cues” (joint with John Conlon)
12:15-2:00 Lunch On Site
2:00-2:45 Egon Tripodi: “Talking across the Aisle” (joint with Luca Braghieri and Peter Schwardmann)
2:45-3:30 Alex Imas: “In their Shoes: Empathy through Information” (joint with Marianne Andries, Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Chaney, and Milena Djourelova)
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-4:45 Ulrike Malmendier: “Information Resonance” (joint with Ryan Oprea and Laura Veldkamp)
6:45pm Conference Dinner (Donkey & Goat Winery)
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Main Conference: Spieker Forum, 6th floor of Chou Hall (Haas School of Business)
8:30-9:00 Breakfast Buffet On Site
9:00-9:45 Charlie Rafkin: “Social Preferences and Bargaining Failure in Eviction” (joint with Evan Soltas)
9:45-10:30 Joshua Dean: “The Effect of Exposure: Evidence from Spatial Choices in Nairobi” (joint with Gabriel Kreindler and Oluchi Mbonu)
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Isabel Trevino: “Complex for Whom? An Experimental Approach to Subjective Complexity” (joint with Marina Agranov and Andrew Schotter)
11:45-12:30 Ned Augenblick: “Model Uncertainty and Overprecision: Theory and Evidence” (joint with Matthew Backus, Andrew Little, and Don Moore)
12:30-2:00 Lunch On Site (To-Go Option)
Policymaker Event: Spieker Forum, 6th floor of Chou Hall (Haas School of Business)
2:00-3:00 Consumer Protection in the New Federal Landscape
- Neale Mahoney, formerly National Economic Council
- Brian Shearer, formerly Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Aviv Nevo, formerly Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:15 Reforming Social Security and Pension Systems in the Face of Consumer and Politician Bias
- Jörg Kukies, former German Minister of Finance
- Ulrike Malmendier, German Council of Economic Experts
- Martin Werding, German Council of Economic Experts
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-5:30 Working with Government
- Elizabeth Linos, Director of the People Lab at Harvard University
- Mattie Toma, Host of the Policymakers Lab at University of Warwick
- Monika Schnitzer, German Council of Economic Experts
Friday, May 30, 2025
Ideas Hub: N340/344, Chou Hall (Haas School of Business)
Life History, Early Experiences, and Later Economic Outcomes: What Can Economists Learn from Evidence on Experience-Dependent Changes in Learning and Decision-Making?
Organized in collaboration with Colin Camerer
9:00 Breakfast On Site
9:20-9:30 Opening Remarks: Colin Camerer
9:30-10:30 Linda Wilbrecht, Director of the Wilbrecht Lab on Neural Learning and Decision Making at U.C. Berkeley
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Willem Frankenhuis, Max Planck Institute, Freiburg [via Zoom]
12:00-12:30 Break
12:30-1:30 Anna Aizer, Member of the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council, NICHD, and Co-Director, NBER Children’s Program
1:30-2:00 Synthesis: Where Do We Go From Here?
BEAM 2025 List of Participants
Anna Aizer, Brown University
Ned Augenblick, University of California, Berkeley
Ruchi Avtar, New York University
Nicholas Barberis, Yale University
Francesca Bastianello, University of Chicago
Alisher Batmanov, University of California, San Diego
Michele Belot, Cornell University
Daniel Benjamin, University of California, Los Angeles
Douglas Bernheim, Stanford University
Adrian Blattner, Stanford University
Lukas Bolte, Carnegie Mellon University
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago
Ben Bushong, Michigan State University
Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology
Kevin Carney, University of Michigan
Leandro Carvalho, University of Southern California
Luisa Cefala, University of California, Berkeley
Anujit Chakraborty, University of California, Davis
Tom Chang, University of Southern California
James Choi, Yale University
John Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University
Zoe Cullen, Harvard University
Michael Cuna, University of Chicago
Josh Dean, University of Chicago
Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley
Bnaya Dreyfuss, Harvard University
Constanca Esteves-Sorenson, University of California, Los Angeles
Christine Exley, University of Michigan
Erik Eyster, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cary Frydman, University of Southern California
Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, University of Iowa
Daniel Gottlieb, University of Southern California and London School of Economics
Kareem Haggag, University of California, Los Angeles
Ben Ho, Vassar College
Ruru Hoong, Harvard University
Alice Hsiaw, Brandeis University
Xing Huang, Washington University in St. Louis
David Huffman, University of Pittsburgh
Zwetelina Iliewa, University of Bonn
Alex Imas, University of Chicago
Yikun Jiang, University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Jin, Cornell University
Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Kuhn, University of Oregon
Spencer Kwon, Brown University
Eben Lazarus, University of California, Berkeley
Karin Li, University of California, Berkeley
Shengwu Li, Harvard University
Chen Lian, University of California, Berkeley
Elizabeth Linos, Harvard University
Ashley Litwin, University of Pennsylvania
Qianyi Liu, University of California, Berkeley
Tianshu Lyu, Yale University
Neale Mahoney, Stanford University
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley
Alejandro Martinez Marquina, University of Southern California
Carl Meyer, Stanford University
Katherine Milkman, University of Pennsylvania
Hugo Monnery, Harvard University
Don Moore, University of California, Berkeley
Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley
Paulo Natenzon, Washington University in St. Louis
Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania
Kathleen Ngangoue, University of California, Los Angeles
Muriel Niederle, Stanford University
Kirby Nielsen, California Institute of Technology
Ted O’Donoghue, Cornell University
Terrance Odean, University of California, Berkeley
Waldo Ojeda, Columbia University
Ryan Oprea, University of California, Santa Barbara
Yesim Orhun, University of Michigan
Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis
Matthew Rabin, Harvard University
Charlie Rafkin, University of California, Berkeley
Vlasta Rasocha, Stanford University
Alex Rees-Jones, University of Pennsylvania
German Reyes, Middlebury College
Matthew Ridley, University of Warwick
Peter Robertson, Stanford University
Matteo Saccarola, University of California, Berkeley
Heather Sarsons, University of British Colombia
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich, German Council of Economic Experts
Heather Schofield, Cornell University
Xiaoyue Shan, National University of Singapore
Elaine Shen, University of California, Berkeley
Cassidy Shubatt, Harvard University
Julia Shvets, University of Cambridge
Jason Somerville, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Charles Sprenger, California Institute of Technology
Jon Steinsson, University of California, Berkeley
Avner Strulov-Shlain, University of Chicago
Nicholas Swanson, Stanford University
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University
Neil Thakral, Brown University
Michael Thaler, University College London
Richard Thaler, University of Chicago
Linh Tô, Boston University
Mattie Toma, University of Warwick
Isabel Trevino, University of California, San Diego
Egon Tripodi, Hertie School
Laila Voss, University of California, Berkeley
Stephanie Wang, University of Pittsburgh, CASBAS
Lucio Wasserman, University of California, Berkeley
Alex Wellsjo, University of California, San Diego
Martin Werding, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, German Council of Economic Experts
Alexander Whitefield, University of Pennsylvania
Kiyotaka Yageta, University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey Yang, Harvard University
Sili Zhang, LMU Munich