GGS Masterclass:
Die Sein/Sollen Dichotomie in den Sozialwissenschaften
Diese Veranstaltung wird organisiert von der GGS Sektion Wissenschaftstheorie.
Organisatorisches
Referenten: Dr. Christine Tiefensee (Lehrstuhl für Politische Theorie, Universität Bamberg)
Termine: 09.10.2014, 9:00-16:00 Uhr und 10.10.2014, 10:00-15:00 Uhr
Ort: Raum 601 (Untergeschoss), Licher Str. 66, 35394 Gießen
Details hier.
This is the program for the economics research seminar at the University of Giessen, which is organized by Prof. Peter Tillmann, Dr. Johannes Paha and myself.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2014 | Tobias Regner, Ph.D. (MPI Jena) | Moral Wiggle Room and Reciprocity | R 601 |
| May 28, 2014 | Prof. Dr. Dennis Gärtner (Uni Bonn) | Cooperate Leniency in a Dynamic World: The Preemptive Push of an Uncertain Future | R 601 |
| June 6, 2014 | Prof. Dr. Christine Zulehner (Uni Frankfurt) | TBA | R 601 |
| June 18, 2014 | Prof. Kundan Kishor, Ph.D. (U Wisconsin, Milwaukee) | What Moves the Price-Rent Ratio for Housing? A Modified Present-Value Approach | R 601 |
| July 9, 2014 | Dr. Bettina Klose (Uni Zurich) | Moderating Alliances | R 601 |
All talks start at 6 pm.
Rainer Hank berichtet hier über Carl Christian von Weizsäckers Konzept der adaptiven Präferenzen (Symposion anläßlich Bertram Schefolds 70. Geburtstag). Prof. Weizsäckers Vortragsmanuskript gibt’s hier.
Menschen, die nicht schon als Ökonomen auf die Welt gekommen sind, fanden dieses Konzept der starren Präferenzen immer schon wunderlich und wenig plausibel. Der Alltagserfahrung viel näher kommt der Verdacht, dass Präferenzen sich ändern je nach Umgebung, in der wir gerade leben, oder nach der Rolle, die wir gerade spielen. Präferenzen befinden sich im Wettstreit nicht nur inter-, sondern auch innersubjektiv: Der Gelegenheitsraucher sucht langfristig Gesundheit und kurzfristig Genuss und leidet durch diesen inneren Widerspruch ständig an sich selbst. Kognitive Dissonanzen pflegt man solche Widersprüche vornehm zu nennen.
People vote because voting is what they should do and they don’t want to lie if asked whether they did vote. This is found in a field experiment by Stefano DellaVigna et al. (paper, short interview).
Letting people know that others might ask them, is an obvious implication of our study, and it turns out that the Obama campaign did just that, too, as part of their turnout experiments. They let Democratic voters know that they would be asked whether they voted, and so this tight-knit community where there is some informal monitoring does seem to be one of the ways that keeps up voting. Now you may ask, “Is this a good or a bad thing, potentially inflicting shame and guilt on those that don’t vote?”, and that’s part of what we point to. That’s part of how we get voting to be high enough, which is generally a desirable objective.
This is the program for the economics research seminar at the University of Giessen, which is organized by Dr. Johannes Paha and myself.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 28, 2013 | Prof. Lutz Kilian, PhD (Univ. of Michigan) | Quantifying the Role of Speculation in Oil Markets | HS 24a |
| Dec. 4, 2013 | Florian Hoos, PhD (HEC Paris) | Can They Serve Different Masters? | R 601 |
| Dec. 11, 2013 | Dr. Benjamin Weigert (German Council of Economic Experts) | Vorstellung des Jahresgutachtens des Sachverständigenrats | HS 3 |
| Jan., 15, 2014 | Prof. Dr. Oliver Hülsewig (University of Applied Sciences Munich) | Smells like fiscal policy? Evaluating the potential effectiveness of the ECB’s OMT program | R 601 |
| Feb., 5, 2014 | Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kranz (Ulm University) | Predatory Short-Sales and Bailouts | R 601 |
All talks start at 6 pm.
My new paper “Rewards and the private provision of public goods on dynamic networks” is published in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics (here).
Last month, Frank Hahn (1925-2013), one of the fathers of general equilibrium theory, has passed away.
In 1991 he wrote about the next 100 years of economic theory:
I am pretty certain that the following prediction will prove correct: theorising of the ‘pure’ sort will become both less enjoyable and less possible.
The full article, in which he argues that economics will become a ‘softer’ subject, is definitely worth reading.
Also, there is a tribute written by Geoff Harcourt (pdf).
As someone working in game theory I was delighted to hear that Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley were awared rthe 2012 Nobel Price in economics. Here is a nice piece on Roth’s work on dwarf-tossing and wife-carrying.
Veronika Grimm explains Shapley’s and Roth’s work on matching and its practical relevance for a broad audience here (in German).
Here is a very good description on how to surive the peer review process.
The Journal of Economic Perspectives JEP celebrates its 25th birthday. Access to all issues is now free.
