Our annual Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory offers leading researchers the opportunity to present current experimental research related to the topic of game theory: the study of strategic interaction using methods of game theory, experimental economics and psychology.
Workshop On Behavioural Game Theory 2023
Our annual Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory offers leading researchers the opportunity to present current experimental research related to the topic of game theory: the study of strategic interaction using methods of game theory, experimental economics and psychology.
Key Dates
Submission ends on April 14th 2023
Notification of acceptance takes place on April 28th 2023
Workshop takes place on July 3rd and 4th 2023
The School of Economics and the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) at the University of East Anglia will be holding our 9th annual workshop on behavioral game theory on July 3rd and 4th. The purpose of this workshop is to present current experimental and behavioral research related to the topic of game theory. Our theme this year is bounded rationality, including topics such as level-k models, QRE, rational inattention, and learning. All papers that lie at the intersection of game theory, behavioral economics, and experimental economics will be considered, but we will give priority to papers that fit with this year’s theme.
2023 Plenary Speakers:
Terri Kneeland, University College London
Agnieszka Tymula, The University of Sydney
Vincent Crawford, University of Oxford and University of California, San Diego
We are going to hold this year’s workshop face-to-face in Norwich. The general format will be a small number of relatively long paper presentations. To facilitate feedback and interaction, papers that are accepted will also be assigned a discussant.
All attendee's of the workshop, including speakers, will need to register to attend this years workshop via the UEA Store. Please note that places are limited so please ensure that you sign up to register as soon as possible.
There will be no conference fees for speakers or attendees of the workshop. Due to budget restrictions, we will be unable to provide any additional support this year and all speakers and attendees will need to source their own accommodation and travel.
Graduate students may also be interested in UEA’s PhD summer school course in behavioral game theory that immediately precedes the workshop (5th-7th July). The course is designed to provide a short introduction to experimental research related to behavioral game theory. To book a place on the Behavioral Game Theory Summer School, please visit the UEA Store. In the past, many students have attended the course and then attended the workshop.
The School of Economics and the Centre for Behavioral and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) at the University of East Anglia hosted our 8th Annual Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory in July 2022. The workshop gratefully saw the return of in-person presentations and attendance here in Norwich, but also welcomed a new opportunity which enabled us to offer the workshop in a hybrid format, allowing people to also attend the workshop online from all around the world.
The purpose of the workshop was to present current experimental and behavioral research related to the topic of game theory with the theme of this year’s workshop being ‘Cooperation.’
Following the ‘Cooperation’ theme, this year’s presentations covered a variety of topics at the intersection of behavioral economics, game theory, and experimental economics. Our plenary speakers presented highly exciting work in this area, such as a model of revealed altruistic preferences in networks that can be used to rationalise observed behaviour of transfers and remittances (by Yann Bramoullé from Aix-Marseille School of Economics), a field experiment involving escape rooms to investigate the value of leadership in teams who are confronted with non-routine tasks (by Florian Englmaier from LMU Munich), and how data from free-form communication can help us better understand how teams can better coordinate on cooperative outcomes (by our very own David Cooper from UEA and the University of Iowa).
The plenary speakers presented alongside 13 other outstanding presenters from all around the world. Presentations by our participants also discussed various projects on public good provision, the role of group identity on behaviour in strategic settings, and the role of prosocial preferences in sustaining peer-to-peer book exchange markets.
After two years of an online format, we were incredibly grateful for the positive reception that we received for hosting the workshop in the hybrid format. The in-person format helped facilitate many fruitful networking, discussions, and exchange of ideas between presentations, whilst the online format allowed for greater inclusivity. We are already looking forward to hosting the next iteration of the workshop!
2022 Speakers:
| Anna Bayona Font | ESADE Business School |
| Adriaan Soetevent | University of Groningen |
| Alistair Wilson | University of Pittsburgh |
| Andrea Isoni | Warwick Business School |
| Ayse Gul Mermer | University of Amsterdam, CREED & Utrecht University |
| Boon Han Koh | University of East Anglia |
| David Cooper | University of East Anglia & The University of IOWA |
| David Jimenez-Gomez | University of Alicante |
| Diego Marino Fages | University of Nottingham |
| Irenaeus Wolff | Thurgau Institute of Economics & University of Konstanz |
| Martin Sefton | University of Nottingham |
| Stefan Penczynski | University of East Anglia |
| Theodore Turocy | University of East Anglia |
| Tom Wilkening | University of Melbourne |
Plenary Speakers 2022
| Florian Englmaier | Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich |
| Yann Bramoullé | Aix-Marseille School of Economics |
We also offer graduate students the opportunity to attend our annual PhD summer school course in behavioural game theory which immediately precedes the workshop. The course is designed to provide a short introduction to experimental research related to behavioural game theory.
We are hoping to hold this year’s workshop face-to-face in Norwich, but, given the current COVID-19 crisis, it is possible that we will be forced to hold the conference online. In either case we plan to live stream all of the talks.
The 7th Annual Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory was hosted by the School of Economics and the Centre for Behavioral and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) in July 2021. For the second and hopefully final time, the workshop was held online due to COVID-19.
The theme of this year’s workshop was ‘Dynamic Game Theory’. Despite not being able to meet in person, the workshop was a great success. We had twenty-three speakers from universities around the world, covering a wide variety of topics in experimental economics and economic theory. Among our keynote speakers, Jörgen Weibull (Stockholm School of Economics) spoke about alternative models of other-regarding behavior, Yan Chen (University of Michigan) presented research about the use of team competition to incentivize ride-share drivers in a large-scale field experiment, and Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvia) discussed punishment of norm violators and compensation for their victims.
Our goal for the workshop is to promote the world class research conducted at UEA in behavioral economics and experimental economics. It took a lot of improvisation and a great deal of help from our outstanding staff, but we feel that we achieved our goals despite trying circumstances. Submissions reached record levels, and we increased the number of presented papers and added discussants as means of increasing participation. Sessions were well attended, with between 50 and 80 individuals listening to the talks at any given time.
2021 Speakers:
| Daniel Friedman | UC Santa Cruz |
| Yaroslav Rosokha | Purdue University |
| Heinrich Nax | University of Zurich |
| Frank Heinemann | TU Berlin |
| Friederike Mengel | University of Essex |
| Andis Sofianos | University of Heidelberg |
| David Gill | Purdue University |
| Tridib Sharma | ITAM |
| Alexander Brown | Texas A&M University |
| Tatiana Kornienko | University of Edinburgh |
| Xiaomin Li | Caltech |
| Emanuel Vespa | University of California, San Diego |
| Evan Calford | Australian National University |
| Chiara Aina | University of Zurich |
| Yuval Heller | Bar-Ilan University |
| Alistair Wilson | University of Pittsburgh |
| Andy Brownback | University of Arkansas |
| Manuel Munoz-Herrera | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| David J Cooper | Florida State University & University of East Anglia |
| Filippo Massari | University of East Anglia |
Plenary Speakers:
| Cristina Bicchieri | University of Pennsylvania |
| Yan Chen | University of Michigan |
| Jörgen Weibull | Stockholm School of Economics |
The 6th Annual Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory was hosted by the School of Economics and the Centre for Behavioral and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) in July 2020. For the first time, the workshop was held online due to COVID-19.
The theme of this year’s workshop was ‘Behavioral Industrial Organisation’. Despite the difficult circumstance due to the ongoing pandemic, the workshop was a great success. We had fifteen speakers from universities around the world, covering a wide variety of topics representing experimental economics, economic theory, and empirical industrial organisation. We also had a productive panel discussion about the relationship between industrial organisation and behavioural economics. Among our keynote speakers, Julie Mortimer (Boston College) and Alistair Wilson (University of Pittsburgh) spoke about pricing and collusion, while Kfir Elias (Tel Aviv University) presented a model of competing narratives.
Our goal for the workshop is to promote the world class research conducted at UEA in behavioral economics and experimental economics, and this year was intended to additionally highlight our industrial organisation group. It took a lot of improvisation and a great deal of help from our outstanding staff, but we feel that we achieved our goals despite trying circumstances.
The fifth annual workshop on Behavioral Game Theory was hosted by the School of Economics at the King’s Centre in Norwich.
The workshop featured talks on the topic of information disclosure and Bayesian persuasion as well as contributions in the wider field of Behavioral Game Theory. Across the two days of the workshop, researchers addressed interesting topics such as disclosure of verifiable information under competition, benign and self-serving information reduction, teams and individuals in repeated prisoner’s dilemma games, information defaults in public good provision, news sharing on social networks, and many others.
Keynote speakers:
Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University, Stern School of Business)
Maria Montero (University of Nottingham)
Erik Eyster (London School of Economics)
The fourth annual workshop on Behavioral Game Theory was hosted by the School of Economics, on campus at UEA.
Plenary Speakers:
Jordi Brandts (IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE)
Daniele Nosenzo (University of Nottingham)
Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia)
The third annual workshop on Behavioral Game Theory was hosted by the School of Economics at The Assembly House, Norwich.
For 2017 the topic was Psychological Game Theory and the School of Economics proudly hosted the second Workshop on Psychological Game Theory. Leading researchers presented and discussed their latest research at the workshop. Proceedings of the workshop and other submitted papers formed a special issue of the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation co-edited by Martin Dufwenberg and Amrish Patel.
Plenary Speakers:
Pierpaolo Battigalli (Bocconi University)
Self-confirming Equilibrium and Rationalisability in Psychological Games
Matthew Rabin (Harvard University)
From Psychological Games to the Economics of Belief-Based Utility
Other Speakers:
Gary Charness (University California SB)
Martin Dufwenberg (University of Arizona)
Georg Kirchsteiger (ECARES)
Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia)
This workshop was co-funded by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation.
The Second Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory was held in June 2016 at The King’s Centre, Norwich.
Plenary Speaker:
Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University)
Other speakers:
David Cooper (University of East Anglia)
Miguel Costa Gomes (University of St Andrews)
Enrique Fatas (University of East Anglia)
Shaun Hargreaves Heap (King's College London)
Friedrike Mengel (University of Essex)
Antonio Morales (University of Malaga)
Joerg Oechssler (Heidelberg University)
Roberto Weber (University of Zurich)
Eyal Winter (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Leicester)
In June 2015 The School of Economics held its inaugural workshop on Behavioral Game Theory, at the King’s Centre, Norwich.
Speakers:
Eyal Winter (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Leicester)
Sotiris Georganas (City University London)
Shaun Hargreaves Heap (King’s College London)
Ed Hopkins (University of Edinburgh)
Nagore Iriberri (University of the Basque Country)