Are fast-loan markets undermining or promoting welfare? How should information about prices and product characteristics be provided to consumers? How does the framing of the offer influence sales and perceptions about quality? What if consumers make consumption choices that are self-harming, how should such markets be regulated in order to promote well-functioning markets and welfare?
Behavioral Economics & Consumer Behavior
The inter-dependencies between competition and consumer policy have been increasingly recognized by academics and policy makers alike.
Even in Finland consumer policy authorities, on the one hand, and competition policy authorities, on the other hand, merged under the same roof when The Finnish Competition and Consumer Policy Authority was established in 2013. Behavioral economics and consumer research are key to understanding the connections between competition and consumer policies, since this research aims at understanding and quantifying the sometimes irrational (in the sense of self-harming) decision making by consumers thus providing tools for integrating consumer protection and competition policy analysis. Under the umbrella of “behavioral economics & consumer behavior”, these and related questions are being studied.
The group maintains Helsinki Labbet, an online and mobile decision making laboratory, and benefits from its services in its datacollection. Helsinki Labbet welcomes behvioral scientists, economist etc. to utilize its facilities. Contact information in the link below.
Helsinki Labbet — Helsinki Laboratory for Behavioral and Experimental Studies
Behavioral Breakfast (internal seminar / discussions)
Members
Topi Miettinen
Chair of the group,
Professor
topi.miettinen at hanken.fi
Jaakko Aspara
Member,
Professor of marketing and consumer behavior
jaakko.aspara at hanken.fi
Homepage
Shreya Basu
Member,
PhD student
shreya.basu at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Lu Cheng
Member,
PhD student
lu.cheng at hanken.fi
Jori Grym
Member,
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Marketing
jori.grym at hanken.fi
Marja-Liisa Halko
Member,
University Lecturer
marja-liisa.halko at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Daniel Hauser
Member,
Assistant Professor
daniel.hauser at aalto.fi
Homepage
Kaisa Kotakorpi
Member,
Professor
kaisa.kotakorpi at vatt.fi
Anustup Kundu
Member,
PhD student
anustup.kundu at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Marco Lambrecht
Member,
Postdoctoral Researcher
marco.lambrecht at hanken.fi
Homepage
Elisabetta Leni
Member,
Affiliated Researcher
elisabetta.leni at ysaatio.fi
Homepage
Peter H. Matthews
Member,
Visiting professor
peter.matthews at aalto.fi
Homepage
Satu Metsälampi
Member,
Visiting PhD Student
satu.metsalampi at utu.fi
Homepage
Tuomas Nurminen
Member,
PhD student
tuomas.nurminen at hanken.fi
Petteri Palonen
Member,
PhD student
petteri.palonen at helsinki.fi
Teemu Pekkarinen
Member,
PhD student
teemu.pekkarinen at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Daniel Peredo Siles
Member,
PhD student
daniel.siles at hanken.fi
Jukka Pirttilä
Member,
Professor
jukka.pirttila at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Klarizze Puzon
Member,
Affiliated Research Associate
klarizzeampuzon at gmail.com
Homepage
Lauri Sääksvuori
Member,
Senior researcher
lauri.saaksvuori at thl.fi
Homepage
Elyas Saif
Member,
PhD student
elyas.saif at hanken.fi
Homepage
Erik Wengström
Member,
Visiting professor
erik.wengstrom at hanken.fi
Xiaogeng Xu
Member,
Post-doc
xiaogeng.xu at hanken.fi
Homepage
Upcoming Seminars
13 Feb 2020
Behavioral Economics
Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution
- Noemi Peter
- University of Groningen
13 May 2020
Behavioral Economics
Consumer behaviour, search and choice: Evidence from smartphones study in Finland
- Shreya Basu
- University of Helsinki
15 Sep 2020
Behavioral Economics
What Makes a Rule Complex? (in collaboration with SBEE Michigan Seminar Series)
- Ryan Oprea
- UC Santa Barbara
22 Sep 2020
Behavioral Economics
RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units (in collaboration with SBEE Michigan Seminar Series)
- Stefano DellaVigna
- Berkeley
29 Sep 2020
Behavioral Economics
The Value of Time in the United States: Estimates from a Nationwide Natural Field Experiment(in collaboration with SBEE Michigan Seminar Series)
- Robert Metcalfe
- Boston University
13 Oct 2020
Behavioral Economics
Expertise, Gender, and Equilibrium Play (in collaboration with SBEE Michigan Seminar Series)
- John Wooders
- New York University
27 Oct 2020
Behavioral Economics
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at Two International Debating Competitions (in collaboration with SBEE Michigan Seminar Series)
- Peter Schwardmann
- University of Munich
3 Nov 2020
Behavioral Economics
Moral Universalism: Economic and Political Applications (in collaboration with SBEE Michigan Seminar Series)
- Benjamin Enke
- Harvard
1 Dec 2020
Behavioral Economics
Loss Attitudes in the U.S. Population: Evidence from Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE) (in collaboration with SBEE Michigan Seminar Series)
- Erik Snowberg
- Caltech
8 Dec 2020
Behavioral Economics
Collaborative Dishonesty: A Meta-Study (in collaboration with SBEE Michigan Seminar Series)
- Shaul Shalvi
- University of Amsterdam
17 Nov 2020
Behavioral Economics
Does mining fuel bubbles? An experimental study on cryptocurrency markets (with Andis Sofianos and Yilong Xu)
- Marco Lambrecht
- Hanken
30 Mar 2021
Behavioral Economics
More skill, less bias? Chasing behavior among experienced poker players
- Marko Lambrecht
- Hanken School of Economics
11 May 2021
Behavioral Economics
The role of reporting institutions and image motivation in tax evasion and incidence (with Kaisa Kotakorpi, Satu Metsälampi and Tuomas Nurminen
- Topi Miettinen
- Hanken
11 Oct 2021
Behavioral Economics
Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the United States
- Björn Bartling
- University of Zürich
25 Oct 2021
Behavioral Economics
”Intelligence disclosure in repeated interactions” & ”Context-dependence of gender differences in risk aversion”
- Marco Lambrecht
- Hanken
1 Nov 2021
Behavioral Economics
Nudge Me! The response to and demand for healthy habit reminders
- Christina Gravert
- University of Copenhagen
22 Nov 2021
Behavioral Economics
Do risk and time preference explain household’s demand for microinsurance? A lab in the field approach
- Anustup Kundu
- University of Helsinki
13 Dec 2021
Behavioral Economics
Fairness Across the World: preferences and beliefs
- Alexander W. Cappelen
- Norwegian School of Economics
16 May 2022
Behavioral Economics
Malfunctioning institutions erode good behavior
- Agne Kajackaite (WZB, Berlin Social Science Center)
9 May 2022
Behavioral Economics
Continuous gender identity and economics
- Eva Ranehill (University of Gothenburg)
25 Apr 2022
Behavioral Economics
Nudging in complex environments
- Julia Nafziger (Aarhus University)
14 Mar 2022
Behavioral Economics
Status and Trust in Representative Leaders: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Rural Sarawak
- Abhijit Ramalingam (Appalachian State University)
11 Apr 2022
Behavioral Economics
Endogenous Information Acquisition and Norm Formation (with Eugen Dimant, Fabio Galeotti)
- Marie-Claire Villeval (Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Etienne)
29 Mar 2022
Behavioral Economics
Hanken Job Talk: Information avoidance and selfish behavior
- Kajsa Hansson (Linköping University)
23 May 2022
Behavioral Economics
Figleafing” and Self-Serving Behavior (with Bernd Irlenbusch, Jan-Erik Lönnqvist, and Gari Walkowitz)
- Arno Apffelstaedt
- University of Cologne
11 Sep 2019
Microeconomics
Robust bidding and revenue in descending price auction
- Sarah Auster
- University of Mannheim and Bocconi University
23 Oct 2019
Microeconomics
Experts, Quacks and Fortune-Tellers: Dynamic Cheap Talk with Career Concerns
- Egor Starkov
- University of Copenhagen
22 Oct 2019
Microeconomics
Microeconomics PhD Workshop
13 Nov 2019
Microeconomics
Information Acquisition in Social Learning
- Helene Mass
- Bonn
4 Dec 2019
Microeconomics
On the Importance of Social Status for Labor Markets
- Pawel Gola
- BI
29 Nov 2019
Microeconomics
Mechanism design with farsighted agents (with Ville Korpela)
- Michele Lombardi
- Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
11 Mar 2020
Microeconomics
Nash bargaining with endogenous outside options
- Eduard Talamàs
- IESE
29 May 2020
Microeconomics
Microeconomics PhD Workshop
23 Sep 2020
Microeconomics
Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting? (with Yingni Guo and Bruno Strulovici)
- Arjada Bardhi
- Duke
21 Oct 2020
Microeconomics
Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information (joint with Xiaosheng Mu and Vasilis Syrgkanis)
- Annie Liang
- University of Pennsylvania
18 Nov 2020
Microeconomics
“Are Simple Mechanisms Optimal when Agents are Unsophisticated?” (with Piotr Dworczak).
- Jiangtao Li
- Singapore Management University
2 Dec 2020
Microeconomics
“Multi-Dimensional Screening with Buyer-Optimal Learning” (joint with Rahul Deb)
- Anne-Katrin Roesler
- University of Toronto
9 Dec 2020
Microeconomics
“Strategic Disclosure in Research Races,” joint with Kalyan Chatterjee and Kaustav Das
- Miaomiao Dong
- Penn State
7 Oct 2020
Microeconomics
Inspecting Experimentation
- Jan Knoepfle
- Aalto
4 Nov 2020
Microeconomics
Incentives for Collective Innovation
- Gregorio Curello
- Bonn
24 Feb 2021
Microeconomics
Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specifications: Theory and Applications (Joint with Jonathan Libgober)
- Kevin He
- University of Pennsylvania
10 Mar 2021
Microeconomics
Communication in the shadow of catastrophe
- Inga Deimen
- University of Arizona
19 May 2021
Microeconomics
Robust Monopoly Regulation
- Yingni Guo
- Northwestern
24 Mar 2021
Microeconomics
Reputation Building under Obervational Learning
- Harry Pei
- Northwestern
5 May 2021
Microeconomics
Insider Imitation
- Erik Madsen
- NYU
21 Apr 2021
Microeconomics
Global manipulation by local obfuscation
- Fei Li
- UNC
2 Jun 2021
Microeconomics
Paying with Information
- Ayca Kaya
- University of Miami
16 Jun 2021
Microeconomics
Search, Matching, and Signaling: Do Markets Help Relationships? (From 3-4pm)
- Arda Gitmez
- Bilkent
31 May 2021
Microeconomics
Microeconomics PhD Workshop
15 Sep 2021
Microeconomics
Tests of Bayesian Rationality
- Pooya Molavi
- Northwestern
22 Sep 2021
Microeconomics
Equilibrium Existence in Independent Private Value First-Price Auctions
- Ron Siegel
- Penn State
6 Oct 2021
Microeconomics
Wealth Dynamics in Communities (with Yingni Guo and Bryony Reich)
- Daniel Barron
- Northwestern
17 Nov 2021
Microeconomics
Purchase history and product personalization (Joint with Vasiliki Skreta)
- Laura Doval
- Columbia
1 Dec 2021
Microeconomics
Dynamic Price Competition: Theory and Evidence from Airline Markets (joint with Ali Hortacsu, and Kevin R. Williams)
- Aniko Oery
- Yale
20 Oct 2021
Microeconomics
“Misconduct, Peer Learning, and Strategic Enforcement,” (joint with Kai Du, Phillip Stocken and Zhe Wang)
- Yi Chen
- Cornell
3 Nov 2021
Microeconomics
“Probabilistic Verification in Mechanism Design” (joint with Deniz Kattwinkel)
(NOTE EXCEPTIONAL TIME)
- Ian Ball
- MIT
12 Jan 2022
Microeconomics
Microeconomics PhD Workshop
2 Mar 2022
Microeconomics
Optimal Contests with Incomplete Information and Convex Effort Costs
- Mengxi Zhang
- University of Bonn
16 Mar 2022
Microeconomics
Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects (With Debraj Ray)
- Paula Onuchic
- Oxford
30 Mar 2022
Microeconomics
Computing and Comparing Measures of Rationality
- Lasse Mononen
- University of Zurich
27 Apr 2022
Microeconomics
Subjective Causality in Choice (with Andrew Ellis)
- Heidi Thysen
- NHH
25 May 2022
Microeconomics
Should the timing of inspections be predictable? (with Ian Ball)
- Jan Knoepfle
- Aalto
25 May 2022
Microeconomics
