Programme: Session I: "How uncertainty changes our behavior – and how we can deal with it" ; Session II: "How Behavioral Design enables success – insights from practitioners"; Session III: "Is less more? Overcome complexity with behavioral insights" Programm: Session I: "Wie Unsicherheit...

The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners from the social sciences in the broad sense as well as statistics, computer science, data science, physics, economics, humanities, and other areas dealing with network science. In addition to contributed presentations and posters,...

As a group of economists and political scientists, we investigate forms, causes, and consequences of media bias, especially in news markets. Main questions of interest are: - How can media bias be defined and measured? - In which situations is bias driven by the supply side of the news market?...

The next St. Gallen Symposium (3–4 May 2012) will be under the topic «Facing Risk». With its unequivocal connection to the world of business, this topic addresses the basic human condition of living in a world dominated by risk. The topic’s wording calls for an awareness of the fact that...

Program 01.08. – 05.08. Panel Data Econometrics (Prof. Manuel Arellano) 08.08. – 12.08. Financial Crises and Financial Stability (Prof. Jeremy Stein) 15.08. – 19.08. Monetary Economics and Imperfect Information (Prof. Ricardo Reis) 22.08. – 26.08. Recent Advances in International Trade...

The CDRR aims to strengthen the capabilities of participants in the field of natural disaster prevention, especially hydrometeorological disasters and/or those related to climate change. To achieve this, the course favours an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to the issue. This focuses...

The focal points of the meeting are a small number of special workshops which determine the broad themes of the meeting At ESSET 2008, there will be two half-day workshops, one each week. The workshops in the first week will be on Communication and Decisions in Organizations organized by Luis...