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The new call for proposals is available here:

Call for Proposals 2016

The 7th International Conference of the French Association of Experimental Economics (ASFEE) will be held at

ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise, June 9-10, 2016

Organized by ESSEC with the support of the LABEX MME-DII and the THEMA Research Center.

Keynote speakers: Professors Rachel Croson (University of Texas at Arlington) and Simon Gaechter (Nottingham University).

Important dates
February 15th-March 15th: Extended abstract submission
April 20th: Notification of acceptance
April 20th- May25th : Registration

For further information, paper submission and registration, please visit the official conference website:

http://asfee2016.sciencesconf.org/

the call for application for the Eleventh Doctorate Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (IT11) on: “Fairness, opportunities and inequality transmission” is available at
http://dse.univr.it/it/documents/it11/it11poster.pdf

The aim of the School is to provide junior and senior researchers with the opportunity to discuss issues concerning:
Inequality of opportunity: theory, evidence and policy implications.
Transmission of inequality: family background, inheritances, geographical segregation.
Inequality and well-being. Social comparisons, fairness, cooperation and redistribution.

The School is organized by: the Department of Economics of the University of Verona; ECINEQ – Society for the Study of Economic Inequality;
LISER Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research; STATISTICS Norway, THEMA-University of Cergy-Pontoise, and ZEW Centre for European Economic Research.

It will take place in January 2016 from Monday 11 to Thursday 14 in the teaching facilities of the University of Verona in Canazei (Italy).
Deadline for application: December 14, 2015.
Further information is available at the website http://dse.univr.it/it

The chair Edgar Morin on Complexity at ESSEC, directed by Prof. Laurent Bibard, organizes a round table on:
“Managing increasingly complex risks in an increasingly stochastic world ”
animated by  Laurent Bibard, Professor of Philosophy (ESSEC), Michel
Dacorogna, Doctor in Science (Physics) and Scientific advisor to the Chairman of SCOR, Marie Kratz, Professor of Probability and Statistics (ESSEC) and Actuary.

The Working Group on Risk – CREAR has the pleasure to participate in this
event, with the support of the IDS department of ESSEC​, the group BFA
(SFdS), Institut des Actuaires & Labex MME-DII.

Date and place:

Thursday, December 17,  from 6:30 pm,

EEE ESSEC La Défense  (CNIT)

ATRIUM (main level)

A cocktail will be offered at the end of the debate.
REGISTRATION <http://bit.ly/1XnXOxh> free but mandatory (to help with the organization)

On December 17th, 2015, UCP will award a degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to Daniel McFadden, recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics 2000. At this occasion, Nathalie Picard, Olivier Donni and André de Palma organize a workshop on “Advances in Discrete Choice Models» December 18th, 8:30 to 18:00 (followed by a cocktail).

The speakers at the workshop will be : Daniel McFadden, Moshe Ben-Akiva, Chandra Bhat, Michel Bierlaire, Andrew Daly, Mogens Fosgerau, Stephane Hess, Marc Ivaldi, Emmanuel Kemel, Nathalie Picard, Joan Walker and Cliff Winston. This event is funded by UCP, LABEX MMEDII, THEMA and ANR ELITISME.

For more information and to sign up for this event, please visit:

http://www.honoriscausa-ucp.com/workshops-2/