Many of the global problems of our society emerge either by insufficient cooperation (e.g. poverty reduction) or excessive risk-taking (e.g. financial crises). Numerous empirical studies in the fields of psychology and economics have documented that human behavior is heavily influenced by...

The workshop intends to bring together academics working in these fields to present their current works and discuss their contributions to explaining economic dynamics. The workshop will be split in three sessions on - Agent-based Modelling - Network-Analysis - Non-linear Business Cycle...

Individuals have to make decisions in nearly all situations in everyday life. These include simple decisions such as whether to drink coffee or tea for breakfast as well as relatively complex decisions such as whether to invest money in a risky stock or leave it on a safe bank account, or whom...

Über Risiken und Nebenwirkungen der Unstatistik: Scheinbar dramatische Meldungen auf höchst fragwürdiger Datenbasis verstören uns nicht selten. Weit verbreitet ist offenbar eine Art Analphabetismus im Umgang mit Wahrscheinlichkeiten und Risiken. Gemeinsam mit Gerd Gigerenzer und Thomas Bauer...

The 16th Joint Seminar of the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (The Geneva Association) and the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) will commemorate the work of its founding father Göran Skogh, who died on 11 May 2014. The topic of the seminar will be...

The Risk Theory Society is a group of economists, financial economists, and actuaries who undertake theoretical and applied research in the areas of insurance economics, financial economics related to insurance markets, actuarial science, and more generally in the economic analysis of risk and...

The theory of path dependence is attracting increasing attention. A considerable number of scholars have been using the theory for the study of historical imprints, escalating dynamics and organizational inertia in different fields and on different levels. The conference aims at providing a...

The objective of the symposium is to present novel use of game and decision theory in reliability and risk analysis and to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines such as economics, engineering, finance, mathematics, medical sciences, probability and statistics who find themselves...

The workshop aims at exploring a general framework for the social sciences for investigating how competition processes interact with conflict and cooperation. This framework will provide a deeper understanding of social interactions, political reforms, the functioning of markets and political...