Welcome to BEAM 2025!

Conference Documents:

BEAM 2025 Program (PDF)
BEAM 2025 Registered Participants (as of May 27)
BEAM 2025 Miscellaneous Final Details

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

Background Reading:

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?

 

Funding for BEAM 2025 provided by the O’Donnell Center for Behavioral Economics