The meeting is hosted by the Department of Economics at The University of Melbourne and it will be held as an in-person event at the Parkville Campus.

Key Dates

Keynote Speakers

Katherine B. Coffman, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Katherine Coffman is the Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiations, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business School. Before joining HBS, she was an assistant professor of economics at The Ohio State University. In her research, Professor Coffman uses experimental methods to study individual, team, and managerial decision making, with a focus on the role of gender stereotypes in shaping beliefs. Her work has been published in Management Science, the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies. She is an associate editor of Management Science and the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics. Professor Coffman holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and a BA in mathematics and economics from Williams College.

Ryan Oprea, Hass School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley

Ryan Oprea is a Professor in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.  Previously he held positions in the Economics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Santa Cruz.Over the course of his career he has done experimental research aimed at understanding the price formation process in markets, how people behave strategically in continuous time and how people make individual decisions in dynamic-stochastic settings.  His recent research has focused on understanding how complexity and cognitive limitations shape human behavior and institutions.

Agnieszka Tymula, School of Economics, University of Sydney

Professor Tymula is Professor in the School of Economics, University of Sydney where she also serves as Director of both the Experimental Economics Lab and the ARC Life Course Centre of Excellence. Her research integrates theory and empirical methods from economics, psychology, and neuroscience to better understand how people decide and how to help them become better decision-makers. Professor Tymula has been awarded over 34 million in competitive research funding. She has held numerous leadership roles, including President and Board Member of the Society for Neuroeconomics, Co-Director of the Neuroeconomics Summer Institute, member of the Executive Committee of the Economic Science Association and the Editorial Board of Experimental Economics.  Professor Tymula is the first Australian researcher to receive the Society for Neuroeconomics Award. She is also a recipient of the Young Economist Award from the Economic Society of Australia and Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council.

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