D-TEA 2025

Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications

Date: June 12-14 2025

Location: Paris School of Economics (PSE), 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris

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Invited Speakers:

Hugo MERCIER (CNRS): Why Do Humans Reason?

Liad MUDRIK (Tel Aviv University): Consciousness and the Brain: Testing and Evaluating Neuroscientific Theories of Consciousness

Joseph SOMMER (Princeton University): Updating, Evidence Evaluation, and Operator Availability: A Framework for Understanding Belief

D-TEA 2025: PROGRAM

Thursday, June 12

Morning Session (Chair: Emmanuel KEMEL) 

08:45-09:00 Welcome
09:00-09:30 Modibo CAMARA: Eliciting Informed Preferences (w/ Nicole IMMORLICA, Brendan LUCIER)
09:30-10:00 Jonathan CHAPMAN: Reassessing Qualitative Self-Assessments and Experimental Validation (w/ Pietro ORTOLEVA, Erik SNOWBERG, Leeat YARIV, Colin CAMERER)
10:00-10:30 Erkut OZBAY: Stochastic Choices in Giving: Theories and Experiments (w/ Emel FILIZ-OZBAY, Tri Phu VU)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Mira FRICK: Contagious Ambiguity (w/ Ryota IIJIMA, Daisuke OYAMA) 
11:30-12:30 INVITED TALK: Hugo MERCIER: Why Do Humans Reason?
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session (Chair: Jean-Marc TALLON)

14:00-14:30 David GONZALEZ-JIMENEZ: Learning gaps? Described versus Experienced Signals
14:30-15:00 Simon GRANT: Recursive Expected Uncertain Utility and Neo-Additive Sources
15:00-15:30 Ani GUERDJIKOVA: Do You Know What I mean? A Syntactic Representation for Differential Bounded Awareness (w/ Evan PIERMONT, John QUIGGIN)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Yoram HALEVY: How Real is Hypothetical? A High-Stakes Test of the Allais Paradox (w/ Uri GNEEZY, Brian HALL, Theo OFFERMAN, Jeroen van de VEN)
16:30-17:00 Jamie HENTALL MacCUISH: Disentangling Risk and Intertemporal Preferences with Costly Information Acquisition
17:00-17:30 En Hua HU: Procedural Choice under Risk

Friday, June 13

Morning Session (Chair: Stefania MINARDI) 

08:45-09:00 Welcome
09:00-09:30 Riota IIJIMA: Efficient Learning from Ambiguous Information (w/ Mira FRICK, Yuhta ISHII))
09:30-10:00 Edi KARNI: Measurements of Attitudes toward Unawareness (w/ Marie-Louise VIERO)
10:00-10:30 Peter KLIBANOFF: Robust Contracting and Voluntary Disclosure (w/ Eran HANANY)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Giacomo LANZANI: Limited Memory, Learning, and Stochastic Choice (w/ Drew FUDENBERG, Philipp STRACK) 
11:30-12:30 INVITED TALK: Joseph SOMMER: Updating, Evidence Evaluation, and Operator Availability: A Framework for Understanding Belief
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session (Chair: Brian HILL)

14:00-14:30 Fabio MACCHERONI: Distributional Ambiguity and Misspecification (w/ Lars Peter HANSEN, Massimo MARINACCI, Tom SARGENT)
14:30-15:00 Michael MANDLER: Randomization in Experiments and the Merging of Recommendations
15:00-15:30 Antony MILLNER: Ambiguity and the Language of Long Run Risk
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Paola MOSCARIELLO: Caution in the Face of Complexity (w/ Geoffroy de CLIPPEL, Pietro ORTOLEVA, Kareen ROZEN)
16:30-17:00 Illia PASICHNICHENKO: Value of Partial Information (w/ Jürgen EICHBERGER)
17:00-17:30 Fernando PAYRO: Modeling the Modeler: A Normative Theory of Experimental Design (w/ Evan PIERMONT)

Saturday, June 14

Morning Session (Chair: Fan WANG) 

08:45-09:00 Welcome
09:00-09:30 Andrew POSTLEWAITE: The Intergenerational Transmission of Future-Orientedness (w/ John KNOWLES)
09:30-10:00 Enrico Mattia SALONIA: Identifying Belief-Dependent Preferences
10:00-10:30 Gerelt TSERENJIGMID: Price Heterogeneity as a Source of Heterogenous Demand (w/ John K.-H. QUAH)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Ferdinand VIEIDER: Minding the Gap: On the Origins of Probability Weighting and the Description-Experience Gap (w/ Ryan OPREA) 
11:30-12:30 INVITED TALK: Liad MUDRIK: Consciousness and the Brain: Testing and Evaluating Neuroscientific Theories of Consciousness
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session (Chair: Itzhak GILBOA)

14:00-14:30 Mu ZHANG: Disentangling Preferences for Risk, Intertemporal Substitution, and Temporal Resolution of Risk (w/ Shaowei KE)
14:30-15:00 Sarat-Chandra AKELLA: Ignorance is Bliss? Domain Dependence of Preferences for the Timing of Information
15:00-15:30 Sarah AUSTER: A Theory of Choice Overload (w/ Yeon-Koo CHE)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Pietro DEDOLA: Foundations of Misspecification Aversion (w/ Edoardo BONAGLIA)
16:30-17:00 Davide BORDOLI: Convex Cost of Information via Statistical Divergence (w/ Ryota IIJIMA)
17:00-17:30 Evan CALFORD: Validated RIS: A Within Subject Test of Incentive Compatibility in the Random (Lottery) Incentive Scheme (w/ Anujit CHAKRABORTY)