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.
Behavioral Economics and Consumer Behavior Reading Group
Program
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Date: 13/05/2020 10:00 am
Location: online, please contact topi.miettinen [at] hanken.fi to join the meeting -
Date: 07/05/2020 10:00 am
Location: seminar room 2, Economicum -
Date: 02/04/2020 10:00 am
Location: seminar room 1, Economicum -
Date: 12/03/2020 10:00 am
Location: seminar room 2, Economicum -
Date: 13/02/2020 10:00 am
Location: seminar room 2, Economicum
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
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
Daniel Hauser
Member,
Assistant Professor
daniel.hauser at aalto.fi
Homepage
Kaisa Kotakorpi
Member,
Research Professor
kaisa.kotakorpi at vatt.fi
Anustup Kundu
Member,
PhD student
anustup.kundu at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Simon Lapointe
Member,
Affiliated / visiting
simon.lapointe at vatt.fi
Homepage
Peter H. Matthews
Member,
Visiting professor
peter.matthews at aalto.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
Jukka Pirttilä
Member,
Professor
jukka.pirttila at helsinki.fi
Lauri Sääksvuori
Member,
Senior researcher
Homepage
Erik Wengström
Member,
Visiting professor
erik.wengstrom at hanken.fi
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
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
22 Apr 2020
Microeconomics
CANCELLED
- Yiman Sun
- TSE
13 May 2020
Microeconomics
CANCELLED
- Jan Knoepfle
- Bonn
29 May 2020
Microeconomics
