a table covered in documents and a laptop

18 March 2024, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Online

The University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School is proud to present this event in conjunction with the Prague University of Economics and Business. Taking place on Monday 18th of March, this full-day meeting will showcase scholars from both institutions as they present their research on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics related to crime, poverty, automation, behavioural and experimental economics.

This event is just one of the several joint activities between the two institutions that have recently developed a partnership. All colleagues and students from both institutions and anyone interested are more than welcome to join us.

This event is open to all and free to attend. 

Please complete this form to register your attendance.

The zoom link will be circulated to all registered attendees by Friday, 15 March. 

This event has been organised by Dr Theodore Koutmeridis, University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School and Dr Helena Chytilová, Prague University of Economics and Business. The event was made possible by funding from IPDF. 

Programme

Monday 18 March (All sessions are in UK time)

10:00 - 10:15 

Welcome

Nuran Acur (UoG), Director of Research, Adam Smith Business School

Sai Ding (UoG), Head of Economics (Internationalisation)

  Research Sessions  
10:15 - 11:00 Economics of Crime

Lubos Cingl (PUEB) - Expected Stigmatization in Prison Inmates: Evidence from two lab-in-the-field experiments (with Vaclav Korbel, PAQ Research; and Puneet Arora, Management Development Institute Gurgaon)

Martti Kaila (UoG) - How Do People React to Income-Based Fines? Evidence from Speeding Tickets Discontinuities

11:00 - 11:45 Experimental Economics

Helena Chytilova (PUEB) - Advanced Experimental Approach to Bank Runs (with Ondrej Dohnal, PUEB)

Tuuli Vanhapelto (UoG) - The Incidence of Housing Allowances - Quasi-Experimental Evidence (with Essi Eerola, Bank of Finland; Teemu Lyytikäinen, VATT Institute for Economic Research; and Tuukka Saarimaa, Aalto University and Helsinki Graduate School of Economics)

11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break  
12:00 - 12:45 Behavioural Economics

Tomas Miklanek (PUEB) -Why do some nudges work and others do not? (with Matej Lorko, University of Economics in Bratislava; and Maroš Servátka, Macquarie Business School, Sydney)

Zvonimir Bašić (UoG) - Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior (with Eugenio Verrina, Sciences Po)

12:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break  
13:30 - 14:30 Policy session: Creating a Czech Nudge Unit

Richard Priesol (Head of Behavioral and Experimental Unit, Slovakia) - Nudge Unit of Slovakia

14:30 - 14:45 Coffee Break  
14:45 - 15:30 PhD session

Kaizhao Guo (UoG) - Automation, Skill and Job Creation

Thi Lan Anh Ngo (UoG) - Poverty and the Self-control Cost of Saving

15:30 - 16:00 Conclude Online discussion on the UoG-PUEB partnership, ideas, plans and next steps

A full programme can also be downloaded at this link: UofG PUEB Workshop Programme

 

 

 


Further information: business-events@glasgow.ac.uk 

First published: 12 March 2024

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