2017 Asia-Pacific ESA Conference Schedule
February 16, 2017 (Thursday)
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Registration

9:10 am - 5:20 pm

Pre-conference Workshop (Room 301)

9:10 am - 10:00 am

10:20 am - 11:10 am

Risky choices over goods (Patrick DeJarnette)
What do voters learn from foreign news? Experimental evidence on PTA diffusion in
Japan and Taiwan (Chun-Fang Chiang)

11:20 am - 12:10 pm

Cognitive ability and earnings performance (Chung-Ching Tai)

1:20 pm - 2:10 pm

Conditionally additive utility representations (Hendrik Rommeswinkel)

2:20 pm - 3:10 pm
3:30 pm - 4:20 pm

4:30 pm - 5:20 pm

Justice as fairness in monkeys: Linking preference behind a veil of ignorance with risk
preference and disadvantageous other-regarding preference (Chen-Ying Huang)
The deterrence effect of compensatory and punitive damages: A public bad experiment(Ming-Hung Weng)
Endogenous reward promotes cooperation (Chun-Lei Yang)

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

ESA Welcome Reception (Social Science Learning Commons)

February 17, 2017 (Friday)
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Registration
Keynote Talk I (Liang Kuo-Shu Conference Hall):

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Thomas R. Palfrey: “Vote Trading in the Laboratory”

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Session 1

1A (Room 301):
Beetles and Tattoos

Beetles play Nash: Mixed strategy equilibrium in their horn length (Kan Takeuchi)
Tattoos and time preferences (Bradley Ruffle)
Knowing when to stop and make a choice, an experiment on optimal sequential sampling

1B (Room 302):
Optimal Stopping(Ambroise Descamps)
What determines non-equilibrium behavior in games: Wrong belief or limited ability? (YeJin)1C (Room 306):
Contracts
1D (Room 305):
Social Dilemmas
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Contracting in supply chain coordination (Wei-Shiun Chang)
Does trustworthiness matter in an optimal contract? (Xiaoyuan Wang)
Cooperation in prisoner's dilemma by letting bygones be bygones: an overlapping
generations experiment (Takao Kusakawa)
Ostracism and reintegration in social dilemmas (Alice Solda)
Lunch Break1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Session 2
Herd immunity and vaccination game (Wooyoung Lim)

2A (Room 301):

Coordination and freeriding problem in the blood market (Ai Takeuchi)

Cooperation 1

Irreversibility and monitoring in dynamic games: Experimental evidence (AndrewBongjune)
The“sales agent”problem: Effort choice under performance pay as behavior toward risk

2B (Room 302):
Effort Allocation(C. Bram Cadsby)
Should firms use both corporate social responsibility and monetary incentives to motivate
workers? (King King Li)

2C (Room 306):
Identity andParochialism

Community solar water pumping system and altruistic behavior in a marginalized
mountain village in Nepal (Hayao Matsui)
The development of social preferences (Brit Grosskopf)
Rehabilitation and social behavior: Experiments in prison (Loukas Balafoutas)
Committee voting and moral: Laboratory experiments (Masaru Sasaki)

2D (Room 305):

Monetary costs versus opportunity costs in a voting experiment (Yoichi Hizen)

Voting Behavior

Can partisan news shift political preference and voting behavior? An experimental
evidence from Taiwan's general elections 2016 (SunTak Kim)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Session 3
The more you trade, the less you earn: An experimental study (Miroslav Zajicek)

3A (Room 301):
Finance

Symmetric information bubbles: Experimental evidence (Yasushi Asako)
What explains trading volume better? Experimental evidence (Harsh Dubey/PrasadFadke)

3B (Room 302):
Preference
Formation

Languages and time preference: Evidence from laboratory experiments (Tai-Sen He)
Neuroanatomy accounts for age-related changes in risk preferences (Agnieszka Tymula)(New) experimental result on unconstrained bargaining from Tokyo and Paris (RobertVeszteg)
The impact of information provision on the enrollment of government-pension programs

3C (Room 306):

and household consumption: Evidence from a field experiment (Chao Tang)

Information andRevisiting gender differences in performance and cognitive biases: A real-effort

Learningexperiment (Marco Palma)
Learning from repeated plays in classrooms (Walter Yuan)

3D (Room 305):
Group Decision
Making6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Hierarchies and decision-making: Experimental evidence (Donata Bessey)
Rationality and group preference of group decision under risk (Minseon Park)
How individual time preferences get aggregated in groups: The laboratory experiments(Manami Tsuruta)
Conference Dinner (Shangri-La's Far Eastern Plaza Hotel, B1 Metro Suite)(201 Tun Hwa South Road, Section 2, Taipei 香格里拉台北遠東國際大飯店大都會廳)2017 Asia-Pacific ESA Conference ScheduleFebruary 18, 2017 (Saturday)
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Registration
Keynote Talk II (Liang Kuo-Shu Conference Hall):

9:00 am - 10:00am

Judd Kessler: “Experimental Investigations of Organ Donation”

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Session 4

4A (Room 301):
Cooperation 2
4B (Room 302):
Risk and Control

Chinese subjects get ahead at the climate game collectively (Riccardo Pansini)Resource abundance and participatory governance in the commons: A behaviouralexperiment (Klarizze Puzon)
Decision rights: freedom, power, and interference (Hendrik Rommeswinkel)
Can we take control over our illusion of control? (Chi Hang Chark)
Paternalistic giving: Restricting recipient choices (Lata Gangadharan)

4C (Room 306):

Sunk cost as a self-management device (Fuhai Hong)

Self-Management

Don't shop while hungry. A field experiment on self-control (Lionel Page)
Consumer information in a market for expert services: Experimental evidence (Tim

4D (Room 305):
Lying and CheatingSchneider)
Investing when risk and ambiguity create opportunities for exploitation (Jonas Fooken)
Extreme (and non-extreme) punishments in sender-receiver games with judicial error: An
experimental investigation (Joseph Tao-yi Wang)

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Session 5
Do vested interests possess a preference of leveling the playing field? (Hui-Chun Peng)

5A (Room 301):

Social norms and identity-dependent preferences (Roy Chen)

Other-regarding

Rational learning and fairness beliefs (Marcel Preuss)preferencesIdentifying the effects of the feeling of being monitored and socioeconomic status on
experimental games in Japan: Using a crowdsourcing service (Akira Goto)
Counter-cyclical risk aversion in experimental asset markets (Anthony Newell)

5B (Room 302):
Risk and Network

Ambiguity aversion and framing effect in the insurance demand for low-probability losses(Tomoharu Mori)
Coordination in dynamic network stag-hunt games: Experimental evidence (Tat How Teh)
Strategic interactions on networks : An experimental approach (Eungik Lee)
Respect breeds integrity and incompetence breeds deception: A lab experiment on thepsychological tax contract (Joshua Chen-Yuan Teng)

5C (Room 306):
Tax Compliance andCheating

Incentive based compensation and objectivity among internal auditors (HelenaFornwagner)
Bribe in auctions: An experimental study (Ajalavat Viriyavipart)
Giving advice about complex products: The case of financial investments (AndreasOrland)

Are“Left-behind”children left behind? A field experiment on the impact of parental
migration on children's economic preferences and behavior (Fei Song)Job preference of temporal job opportunity with injury risks in construction sector for
5D (Room 305):
Development

rural villagers in Myanmar (Airi Kato)
Measurement of intergenerational transfer of altruistic behavior between parent and childin disaster affected area of rural Nepal (Toru Sasaki)
Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on online one-to-one microfinance lending(Josie Chen)

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Session 6

6A (Room 301):
Education andSchool Choice

A dynamic college admission mechanism in Inner Mongolia: Theory and experiment(Binglin Gong)
A unified perspective on students' behaviors in their school choice: Theory andexperiment (Naoki Watanabe)

6C (Room 306):

Hierarchy, ex-ante inequality, and redistribution in resource conflicts (Klarizze Puzon)

Political Economy

An experimental study of proposal power in legislative bargaining (Enseen Tang)

5:15pm - 6:15pm
6:30pm -Keynote Talk III (Liang Kuo-Shu Conference Hall): Ulrich Schmidt: “GenderDifferences in Risk Taking”(Cancelled due to medical emergency)
Taipei 101 Night View Tour (Meet 5:30pm at Registration Desk)