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Centre for Experimental Studies and Research (CESAR)

The Centre for Experimental Studies and Research – CESAR – provides high quality research on decisions and markets using economic theory and experimental methods.

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2023

  • BI Thursday, December 7, 2023

    PhD Defence: Thomas McKay

    PhD Candidate Thomas McKay, Department of Economics, defended his thesis “Essays about Auctions and Bargaining: Theory and Experiments” for the Doctor Philosophiae degree at BI Norwegian Business School.

  • International Economic Review Thursday, September 21, 2023

    August 2023: Publication in International Economic Review

    Heggedal, T.R., Helland, L., and Moen, E.R. (2023), Sequential Price Setting: Theory and Evidence from a Lab Experiment, International Economic Review.

  • The Scandinavian Journal of Economics Monday, May 22, 2023

    May 2023 – Publication in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics

    Brekke, K.A, Ciccone, A, Heggedal, T.R. and Helland, L, Reference points in sequential bargaining: Theory and experiment.

  • The Economic Journal Saturday, April 1, 2023

    April 2023 - Publication in the Economic Journal

    Hauge, K. E., Kotsadam, A., & Riege, Culture and gender differences in willingness to compete.

  • BI Wednesday, February 1, 2023

    February 2023 - Reading group

    CESAR organizes a reading group on topics within applied microeconomic theory. We currently discuss recent papers on consumer search and related topics within competition policy and IO. Our ambition is to have 4-5 sessions per semester.

    Would you like to join?  Please send an email to Tom-Reiel Heggedal.

2022

  • Games and Economic Behavior Wednesday, October 19, 2022

    Publication in Games and Economic Behavior.

    Heggedal, T.R., Helland, L., and Knutsen, M.V. (2022). The Power of Outside Options in the Presence of Obstinate Types.

  • BI Wednesday, June 8, 2022

    Publication in Games and Economic Behavior.

    Heggedal, T.R., Helland, L. and Morton. R. (2022). Can Paying Politicians Well Reduce Corruption? The Effects of Wages and Uncertainty on Electoral Competition.

  • Ernesto Ruben Monday, March 28, 2022

    PHD course in experimental economics

    Ernesto Reuben at NYU Abu Dhabi is giving a PhD course in experimental economics at BI Norwegian Business School May 2nd to 6th this spring

    The course provides a combination of lectures on topics in the research frontier, programming and running experiments on z-Tree, and in class discussions of experimental designs.

    More information on Ernesto's teaching materials can be found in the link above.

    There are no fees for participation, but participants must provide for their own accommodation and travel. 

  • Aftenposten Wednesday, January 5, 2022

    Funeral for Leif at St. Olavs church in Oslo.

    Read Leif’s obituary published in Aftenposten

2021

  • External link Monday, December 20, 2021

    Leif sadly passed away today.

    Leif Helland passed away on Monday. It was very sad to receive the news. He had been terminally ill for a while, and he died peacefully with his family by his side. He was a great researcher and a great colleague and friend. He built up the research environment around experimental economics at BI. Leif will be sorely missed.

  • External link Friday, October 1, 2021

    Publication in Management Science

    Ellingsen, T., & Kristiansen, E. G. (2021). Fair and Square: A Retention Model of Managerial Compensation. forthcoming Management Science.

  • External link Saturday, May 1, 2021

    Accepted article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

    Helland, L., Iachan, F. S., Juelsrud, R. E., & Nenov, P. T. Information quality and regime change: Evidence from the lab. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 191, 538-554.

  • External link Saturday, May 1, 2021

    Publication in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

    Bos, O., Gomez-Martinez, F., Onderstal, S., & Truyts, T. (2021). Signalling in auctions: Experimental evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 187, 448-469.

2020

  • External link Saturday, August 1, 2020

    Publication Management Science

    von Essen, E., Huysentruyt, M., & Miettinen, T. (2020). Exploration in teams and the encouragement effect: Theory and experimental evidence. Management Science, 66(12), 5861-5885.

  • External link Monday, June 1, 2020

    Publication in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

    Miettinen, T., Kosfeld, M., Fehr, E., & Weibull, J. (2020). Revealed preferences in a sequential prisoners’ dilemma: A horse-race between six utility functions. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 173, 1-25.

2019

  • External link Friday, June 28, 2019

    Workshop hosted by CESAR

    3rd Bargaining: Experiments, Empirics, and Theory (BEET) Workshop with Leif Helland at BI-Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway) on 28-29 June, 2019.

  • External link Thursday, May 9, 2019

    Conference sponsored by CESAR

    9th Annual Search and Matching Conference 2019 - European Search and Matching Network (SaM)

  • External link Friday, February 1, 2019

    Publication in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance

    Hernandez-Arenaz, I., & Iriberri, N. (2019). A Review of Gender Differences in Negotiation . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, pp. 1–22.

  • External link Friday, February 1, 2019

    Publication in Games and Economic Behavior

    Andersen, J.J. and Heggedal, T.R. (2019). Political Rents and Voter Information in Search Equilibrium, Games and Economic Behavior, 114, 146-168.

2018

  • External link Sunday, April 1, 2018

    Publication in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

    Hernandez-Arenaz, I., & Iriberri, N. (2018). Women ask for less (only from men): Evidence from bargaining in the field. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 152, 192-214.

  • External link Tuesday, February 27, 2018

    Article accepted in PlosOne

    New article published in PlosOne

    Marja-Liisa Halko and Topi Miettinen's article From ideals to deals - The effect of impartiality experience on stakeholder behavior has been accepted for publication in PlosOne. 

  • External link Tuesday, February 27, 2018

    Article accepted in Oxford Economic Papers

    New publication in Oxford Economic Papers

    Leif Helland, Jon Hovi and Håkon Sælen's article Climate Leadership by Conditional Commitments has been accepted for publication in Oxford Economic Papers

  • External link Tuesday, February 27, 2018

    PhD course in experimental economics

    Ernesto Reuben at NYU Abu Dhabi is giving a PhD course in experimental economics at BI Norwegian Business School the 11th - 13th of April this spring.

    The course provides a combination of lectures on topics in the research frontier, programming and running experiments on z-Tree, and in class discussions of experimental designs.

     

    More information on Ernesto's teaching materials can be found in the link above.

     

    There are no fees for participation, but participants must provide for their own accommodation and travel. 

     

    PhD students external to BI please sign up here for participating (course code DRE 7012 Experimental Economics): 

     

    https://www.bi.edu/programmes-and-individual-courses/phd/external-candidates/ 

     

    Students looking for a hotel deal can contact Kristin Svanekiær Grigson at kristin.s.grigson@bi.no

     

2016

  • External link Sunday, December 4, 2016

    New working paper

    New CESAR working paper is out: "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Bandwagons in the Lab", authored by Tom-Reiel Heggedal, Leif Helland & Knut-Eric Neset Joslin. The paper subjects the seminal platform selection model of Farrell & Saloner (1985) to a controlled experimental test.

  • Copenhagen Business School Wednesday, November 30, 2016

    Mirjam van Praag presents at the Economics department

    Mirjam van Praag presents a paper at BI Economics Department on Wednesday 30th November, 12-13.15

  • 11th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics Friday, September 30, 2016

    11th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics

    CESAR is hosting the 11th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics on the 30 September - 1 October 2016.

  • ScienceDirect Friday, September 30, 2016

    Paper accepted in Journal of Economic Theory

    A paper on experimental posted offer markets by Leif Helland, Espen R. Moen & Edgar Preugschat is accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Theory.

  • socialscienceregistry.org Tuesday, May 24, 2016

    New pre study plan registered at AEA

    A pre study plan for the project "Electoral competition and political rents in the lab" has been posted at the American Economic Association's RCT registry (AEARCTR-0001289). The project is a collaboration between Tom-Reiel Heggedal, Leif Helland & Rebecca Morton.

  • External link Friday, May 13, 2016

    Espen Moen presents at SAM

    13. May 2016 Espen Moen presents the paper "Information and coordination frictions in experimental posted offer markets" at the Search and Matching Conference in Amsterdam.

  • BI Saturday, April 2, 2016

    New working paper

    New CESAR working paper is out: "From ideals to deals - the effect of arbitration experience on stakeholder behavior", authored by Marja-Liisa Halko & Topi Miettinen. The paper investigates the effect of past arbitrator experience on stakeholder demands in bargaining, as well as the effect of past stakeholder experience in bargaining on arbitrator behavior.

  • Nagore Iriberri Wednesday, February 17, 2016

    Nagore Iriberri presents at the Economics department

    Nagore Iriberri presents a paper at BI Economics Department on Wednesday 17th February, 12-13.15.

  • Forskningsradet Monday, January 4, 2016

    CESAR wins TOPPFORSK allocation

    The Norwegian Research Council has allocated 22 mill. NOK to CESAR for the years 2016-2021, as part of it's prestigious TOPPFORSK progam. The researchers in the project will study the causes of bargaining failure using game theoretical models and controlled laboratory experiments. The project is lead by Leif Helland.