Nordic Conference in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
This yearly conference serves as a meeting point for behavioral and experimental economists active in the Nordic countries, but is also targeted more generally to academic researchers in Europe and beyond.
The 16th edition of the conference, happening on Thursday the 26th to Friday the 27th of September, 2024 at the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, will be co-organized by the Department of Economics at CBS and the Department of Technology, Management and Economics at DTU. The organizer team are Christina Gravert (KU), Thomas Markussen (KU), Jimmy Martinez-Correa (CBS), Toke Fosgaard (DTU).
We are honored to have as keynote speakers Michel Maréchal from University of Zurich and UCSD and Barbara Fasolo from LSE.
The conference is supported financially by the Carlsberg Foundation and the University of Copenhagen.
Call for papers
Registration is closed.
Notification of acceptance will be 17th of June and the registration deadline is 1st of August.
Questions about the conference can be sent to Kamma Lind Halvorsen email: klh@econ.ku.dk
Conference package and travel
The conference fee is DKK 700 (including VAT). The fee will cover two lunches and dinner on the 26th. Participants need to cover their own travel and accommodation.
The University of Copenhagen has made arrangements with Wakeup Copenhagen, Borgergade. They offer reduced rates for participants in NCBEE 2024.
Wakeup Copenhagen is located in the centre of Copenhagen nearby Kongens Nytorv Metro Station. One stop by metro from the conference venue or a 15-minute walk.
We highly recommend participants to book their stay as soon as possible.
Book your room through this link.
The conference dinner will be held at Restaurant Vækst the 26th of September.
Conference venue
NCBEE will take place at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5.
Professor Michel Maréchal, University of Zürich and Rady School of Management
Michel is a Visiting Professor of Economics at the Rady School of Management, UC San Diego and a Professor at the University of Zurich. His research is highly interdisciplinary, blending economics with social psychology, criminology, political science, and biology, and employs both field and lab experimental methods in collaboration with various organizations. Michel's work covers a wide range of topics including unethical behavior, crime, and economic preferences and has been frequently published in Nature, Science, and the AER among other top journals. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association.
Professor Barbara Fasolo, London School of Economics and Political Science
Barbara is an Associate Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department of Management at LSE, renowned for her expertise in choice processes. Her work, featured in top journals like the Annual Review of Psychology and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, explores the intricacies of decision-making in contexts of risk, trade-offs, and complexity. Through her research, Barbara aims to enhance decision-making with strategies such as choice architecture and debiasing, focusing on areas critical to well-being, such as health, finance, education, and public policy. She leads the LSE Behavioural Lab, a world-leading hub for research on human behavior.
The full program will be available in mid August.
| Wednesday 25.9 | |
| 19.00-20.30 | Informal Reception (At own expense). To be held at Cinematiket Rooftop. Link, Gothersgade 55, 1123 København K |
| Thursday 26.9 | |
| 9.00-9.30 | Registration and coffee: Outside room 35.01.06 |
| 9.30-9.40 | Welcome and practical information: 35.01.06 |
| 9.40-10.40 | Keynote talk (Barbara Fasolo): “Beyond biases: interventions for mitigating bias in complex decisions”. 35.01.06 |
| 10.40-11.10 | Coffee break: Outside room 1.1.02 |
| 11.10-12.30 | Parallel session 1 (4 talks) |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch: 35.3.20 (Faculty Lounge) |
| 14.00-15.00 | Parallel session 2 (3 talks) |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee break: Outside room 1.1.02 |
| 15.30-16.30 | Parallel session 3 (3 talks) |
| 18.00-21.00 | Conference dinner at “Vækst” Link. Sankt Peders Stræde 34, 1453 Copenhagen K |
| Friday 27.9 | |
| 9.30-10.00 | Coffee: Outside room 1.1.02 |
| 10.00-11.20 | Parallel session 4 (4 talks) |
| 10.20-11.50 | Coffee: Outside room 1.1.02 |
| 11.50-12.50 | Parallel session 5 (3 talks) |
| 12.50-13.50 | Lunch: 35.3.20 (Faculty Lounge) |
| 13.50-14.50 | Keynote talk (Michel Maréchal): “Standing in Prisoners’ Shoes: An Experiment on How Incarceration Shapes Criminal Justice Attitudes” 35.01.06 |
| 14.50-16.00 | Closing reception and group photo: outside room 35.01.06 |
Download the full program here.
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