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The Best Paper in Behavioral and Experimental Economics Awarded to CERGE-EI Researchers

6 December, 2017

On Friday, November 24, 2017, Michal Bauer (CERGE-EI faculty member) and Vojtěch Bartoš (LMU Munich, a CERGE-EI PhD graduate) collected the prestigious Exeter Prize for Research in Experimental Economics, Decision Theory, and Behavioral Economics which they won together with their co-authors Julie Chytilova (CERGE-EI researcher) and Filip Matejka (CERGE-EI faculty member) for their paper published in the American Economic Review.

The prize is annually awarded to the best paper published in a peer-reviewed journal in the fields of Experimental Economics, Decision Theory, and Behavioral Economics. Exeter Business School organized a small topical workshop on the related topics of discrimination and inequality, where both Michal and Vojtěch presented their work.

Michal presented the winning paper "Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition", while Vojtěch presented a new project entitled "Evidence for the Direct Effect of Poverty on Time Preference: An Experiment with Ultra-poor Farmers in Uganda", which is a joint work with Michal, Julie, and Ian Levely (Wageningen University). See the photos from the award ceremony and their presentations below.

Congratulations once again to Michal, Vojtěch, Julie, and Filip!

Exeter Prize 2017 Ceremony

Vojtech Bartos and Michal Bauer at the Exeter Prize 2017 Ceremony

Michal Bauer Presentation