Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Economics - Buenos Aires (WBEE-BA)

Whith the collaboration of:

The University of Chicago | UCEMA Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (JILAEE) in association with Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, are inviting submissions for the “ Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Economics - Buenos Aires (WBEE-BA)” on November 16h and 17th, 2026. We are excited for you to join us on site in Buenos Aires. Papers in behavioral and experimental economics are welcome.

Keynote speakers

  • George Loewenstein is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1985 and since then has held academic positions at The University of Chicago, visiting professor positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Arctic University of Norway (in Tromsø, Norway), the BRIQ Institute on Behavior and Inequality at the University of Bonn, Germany, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, The Russell Sage Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin.  He is past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on applications of psychology to economics and, more recently, applications of economics to psychology (e.g., economic analyses of boredom, insecure self-esteem, and of the reluctance to thank and apologize). Specific interests include belief-based utility, the psychology and economics of attention, learning and forgetting, motivational feeling states associated with cognition (e.g., boredom, curiosity and mental effort), intertemporal choice, bargaining and negotiations, psychology and health, law and economics, the psychology of adaptation, the role of emotion in decision making, the psychology of curiosity, conflict of interest, various aspects of sex, unethical behavior, and issues involving research ethics. Loewenstein helped to found the field of behavioral economics, the field of neuroeconomics, and was one of the early proponents of a new approach to public policy called, variously, ‘asymmetric’ or ‘libertarian’ paternalism. He has published over 300 journal articles in journals in economics, psychology, law, medicine and other fields, numerous book chapters, has written or edited 6 books on topics ranging from intertemporal choice to behavioral economics and emotions, and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals in different fields. His CV is organized by topic area, and you can access his publications on Google Scholar.

  • Drazen Prelec is the Digital Equipment Corp. Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management and a Professor of Management Science and Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has been a member of the Sloan faculty since 1991, with secondary appointments in the MIT Departments of Economics, and Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He received his Ph. D in Experimental Psychology and AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. He became involved with behavioral economics as a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, and has pursued this interest with fellowships from the Russell Sage Foundation, Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and All Souls College, Oxford. He has also held visiting professor positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Mathematics Department at Zagreb University.

    Prelec remains interested in the limitations of rational models for human agency, especially in connection with non-causal motivation, self-signaling, and collective choice (the free-rider problem). However, most of his work over the past decade has focused on ‘crowd wisdom’ in non-verifiable knowledge domains, i.e., domains where no external truth criterion is available. Examples are long-range forecasts, political or historical inferences, and artistic or legal interpretations. He has developed incentive-compatible algorithms (“Bayesian truth serum”) that provide honesty incentives without need for external verification, and that can help identify truth even when majority opinion is wrong. Most recently, he has attempted to extend these mechanisms to computational neuroscience, as part of a larger ‘neural game theory’ project.

Deadline to submit papers: May 31st, 2026

Papers confirmation: June 22nd, 2026

Confirmation of papers attendance: June 29th

Important dates:

Conference Start Date: November 16th, 2026

Conference En Date: November 17th, 2026

Workshop site: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Deadline to register: September 15th, 2026

Registration:

The workshop is free of charge, but capacity is limited.

Please register by September 15, 2026.

Confirmed participants will be notified shortly after the registration deadline.

The workshop:

The workshop’s scientific committee will select 10 papers that will be presented during the 2 days workshop. Each presenter will have 45 minutes to present the paper and adjourn questions.

Scientific committee:

  • Julio J. Elias is professor in the Department of Economics and Business School of the University of CEMA (UCEMA), Argentina and Executive Director at JILAEE. His research focuses on health economics, economic development, the economics of education and labor economics.

  • I am an Assistant Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Business School.

    My research interests lie both in the fields of behavioral economics and political economy.

    I did my PhD at CEMFI, and I am an afiliated researcher at the Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (JILAEE).

  • Joaquín is an Associate Professor at the Business School at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella where he directs a research center called the "Neuroscience Lab". He is also a tenured researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina.

  • Gwen-Jiro Clochard is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Osaka University and part of the Director's team at JILAEE since 2023. His research focuses on experimental and development economics, with a particular interest in discrimination issues.

  • Luca is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Finance at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam. His research fields are behavioral economics and household finance. In particular, he examines determinants and consequences of financial and moral decision-making using experiments, surveys, and linked survey-administrative data.

  • Julia Seither is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of Universidad del Rosario and part of the Director’s team at JILAEE since 2020. Her research is on the intersection of behavioral and development economics.

  • Karen J. Ye is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Queen’s University and part of the Director’s team at JILAEE since 2020. Her research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics with a particular interest in education.

Organizing committee:

  • John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago and Scientific Director at JILAEE. His research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on using field experiments to address both positive and normative issues.

  • Julio J. Elias is professor in the Department of Economics and Business School of the University of CEMA (UCEMA), Argentina and Executive Director at JILAEE. His research focuses on health economics, economic development, the economics of education and labor economics.

  • I am an Assistant Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Business School.

    My research interests lie both in the fields of behavioral economics and political economy.

    I did my PhD at CEMFI, and I am an afiliated researcher at the Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (JILAEE).