ECBE 2018
On the 20-21 of June, FAIR is hosting the 4th Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference. Professor Alexander Cappelen and Professor Bertil Tungodden are the keynote speakers.

The first ECBE Conference took place in Chicago in 2015, the second took place in Bonn in 2016 at the briq Institute, and the third Conference took place in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). This year, it is hosted and sponsored by FAIR, and were happy to welcome over 40 participants from a wide variety of institutions, centres and universities, for two full days.

The first day of the conference was packed with interesting presentations on topics ranging from behavioral economics and politics, evidence from lab experiments, and racial attitudes and discrimination. The day ended with the conference dinner at Fløyen Folkerestaurant.

On thursday the day started off with presentations on the topics of consumer finance and credit behavior. Other topics were bargaining, stereotypes and social recognition, and beliefs and information.

To round off the two days, we climbed the 900 steps up the Stoltzen-hike.