THE SABE NEWSLETTER
THE SOCIETY FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Statement
of Purpose
SABE is an association of scholars who
are committed to rigorous economic analysis and are interested in learning how
other disciplines for example, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history,
political science, and biology - further our understanding of economic
behavior. An important function of SABE is to serve as a forum for research
which may not find either comprehension or acceptance in conventional economics
societies. SABE also aims at facilitating communication between economists and
scholars trained in related disciplines.
Vol. 11,
No. 1
Spring 2003
Editor: Simon James
School of Business and
Economics, University
of Exeter, Streatham Court, Exeter
EX4 4PU
United
Kingdom
Contributions for the next
issue are very welcome email: S.R.James@ex.ac.uk
Newsletter contents
SABE
Election 2
SABE 2003 Conference 3
SABE 2004
Conference 3
Behavioral
Economics at the 2003 ASSA Meetings 4
IAREP
2003 Conference 5
IAREP
2005 Conference 6
TheJournal
of Socio-Economics 7
Shoshana
Grossbard-Schechtman 7
Dick
Hessing In Memoriam 8
Books of Interest 10
SABE
Executive Board 12
SABE
2003 Conference Details 13
SABE
2003 Registration Form 18
Please visit SABE at
our WEB site: http://www.usask.ca/economics/SABE/
Note that the address
is case sensitive.
SABE
Election
If you use e-mail and you are on SABE's
member list, you should have by now received the SABE ballot. Hopefully, you have already voted or will do
so by April 1, 2003.
This is the first such SABE election, and it was a long time
coming. Since the SABE Board gave the go
ahead this past summer, Gary Lynne and I have had to confront a variety of
difficulties (missing e-mail addresses, hard to contact people, insufficient
nominations, etc.) and have had to make implementation decisions without any
precedents to guide us. We don't believe
we have done a perfect job, but striving for perfection would have taken even
longer. Hopefully, we will learn from
this experience, and the election process will work better the next time. Please note flaws in the system and inform us
about these.
Morris Altman is the sole candidate for President. No one was nominated for President-elect so
we will deal with that next year. For
the two-year Board terms, there are 10 candidates, 5 current Board members and
5 nominees; 8 will be elected. For the
four-year Board term, there are also 10 candidates, 8 current Board members and
2 nominees; 8 will be elected. Several
current Board members declined to seek election to a new term.
Any SABE member is eligible to vote.
If you do not have an e-mail address or SABE does not have your e-mail
address, contact Gary Lynne, SABE Secretary, to arrange to vote. Gary's e-mail address is glynne1@unl.edu . His
work address is Department of
Agricultural Economics and School of Natural Resource Sciences, 103B Filley,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0922; his telephone number is
402 472-8281.
It would be really good if a high percentage of members vote.
John Tomer
SABE
2003
SABE 2003 will be held at the Cal Neva
Resort on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, NV, USA July 28-31. You still have time to meet the April 30th
deadline for submitting a presentation proposal. See the Call for Papers for on the SABE Web
site at http://www.usask.ca/economics/SABE/,
or simply send an abstract of your
proposed presentation to
Mark Pingle
SABE 2003 Organizer
Chair, Department of Economics
Professor of Economics
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada 89434
pingle@unr.edu
775-784-6634
Fax 774-784-4728
Details of the Conference and a
registration form appear at the end of the Newsletter.
SABE
2004
The
conference is being organized by Bijou Yang Lester, Drexel University and will
take place at Sheraton University City in West Philadelphia - July 15-18, 2004.
Tentative Schedule:
- July 15: Registration in
the evening 5-7pm.
- July 16: Invited talk in
the early morning, three slots for parallel sessions (plus poster sessions)
in the rest of the day. Boat ride
and dinner in the evening.
- July 17: Invited talk in
the early morning, three slots for parallel sessions (plus poster
sessions) in the rest of the day. Gala dinner in the evening.
- July 18: Four slots for
parallel sessions.
We
welcome individual papers and organized sessions.
Dr. David Laibson, Professor of
Economics,at Harvard University to be our keynote speaker. The talk will be
held at 8-9:30am, July 16, 2004. The title of the talk will be "Benign
Paternalism."
Abstract
Decision-makers
tend to blindly accept default options.
In this paper, we analyze the reasons that defaults are so powerful and
show how to calculate optimal defaults in a world of procrastinating agents. We also identify an overlooked but practical
alternative to defaults. We analyze the
benefits of requiring people to make decisions for themselves, thereby
eliminating reliance on defaults. We
then analyze an example of this "active decision" approach with
regard to 401(k) enrollment. Active
decisions generate 401(k) participation rates that are up to 25 percentage
points higher than those under a regime with the standard default of
non-enrollment. Requiring employees to
make an active 401(k) election also raises average saving rates and asset
accumulation with no increase in the rate of attrition from the 401(k) plan.
Behavioral Economics at the 2003 ASSA Meetings
Hugh
Schwartz
Behavioral Economics was represented at
the 2003 ASSA Meetings to a greater extent than in previous annual meetings.
Three panels focused squarely on the area and another half dozen, probably
more, featured one or more papers on behavioral economics and behavioral
finance.
Behavioral Economics, Public Policy
and Paternalism, featured a paper by Cass Sunstein and Thaler, a second by
James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Abdrew Metrick, and a third by
Matthew Rabin, winner of the most recent Clark medal. The second paper will be
the theme of the talk that Laibson will give to the 2004 Meeting of SABE and
IAREP in Philadelphia.
A particularly stimulating session
was Views of Economics from Neighboring Social Sciences, with Larry Bartels
and Henry Brady presenting the view from Political Science, Daniel Kahneman
from Psychology and Joel Podolny from Sociology. Laibson was one of the three
discussants.
The third session was on
Neuroeconomics. This exciting new subfield featured a paper by George
Loewenstein and Colin Camerer, one by Antonio Rangel and Douglas Bernheim,
another by John Dickhaut, Aldo Rustichini, Jose Pardo and Kip Smith, and a
fourth by Jonathan Choe
Among
the other panels touching on our area were the following: Behavioral Public
Economics (which included a paper by Ernst Fehr), Behavioral Finance (with
Andrei Shleifer as a discussant), Behavioral Finance and Real Estate, Asset
Choice in Retirement Accounts (with Richard Thaler as a discussant), Economics
of Pensions and Retirement Saving (with a paper by Madrian, Choi, Laibson and
Metrick), Economics and the Family: Papers in Honor of Leslie Whittington (with
Shoshana Grossbard-Schectman as a discussant), and Law and Economics:
Alternative Economic Approaches to Legal and Regulatory Issues (with two papers
by Morris Altman, one as a joint author). And there doubtless were a number of
other references to behavioral economics in papers presented at other sessions.
In addition, SABE sponsored another Poster
Session, the participants to which will be noted in the next issue, along with
the topics of their presentations."
IAREP 2003 conference in New Zealand
Psychology and Economics
Monday 1 Thursday 4 September 2003
Christchurch, New Zealand
Incorporating the Australasian Psychology
and Economics Group Conference
Full
details can be found on the web site for the conference at the following
address:
http://events.lincoln.ac.nz/iarep/default.htm
The
final date for receiving abstracts will be 30 April 2003. However, to enable
you to sort out arrangements earlier than this, we shall be approving papers
for presentation after January 1, 2003. So if you want early confirmation,
please send us an abstract early and we shall do our best to get back to you
within four weeks after submission.
Abstracts
should be submitted to Tom Keenan by email (t.keenan@psyc.canterbury.ac.nz)
or complete the on-line form on the conference website.
IAREP
2005 CONFERENCE IN PRAGUE
PRELIMINARY
ANNOUNCEMENT
The
Jubilee IAREP Congress, the 30th, will be held in Praha,
Czechia, on the site of the oldest
University in Central Europe: Charles University (founded in 1348). The
organiser will be Karel Riegel, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and
Humanities
The main theme will cover all aspects of
rationality: from pure rational thinking, through bounded rationality, to the
non-rational - or irrational - so well described by the writer Franz Kafka, who
was a citizen of Prague and clerk of an assurance agency. The transition of economies was not like a walk through a
rosarium (as in beautiful Bath for example), but rather more like a laboratory
of economic thought. Independent
variables were not only the euphoria that came from new freedoms, but also
naivete and inexperience on the one hand and legal and moral deficits on the
other. The resulting profound changes brought not only the standard,
functioning market economy, but also emotions, depressions, disenchantment and,
even a sense of absurdity. Underestimation, in the same way as overestimation
of market possibilities, leads as a rule to a whole family of economic
consequences like bankruptcy, corruption, unemployment, and its psychological
co-(Johny) walkers: distrust (of currency, or stocks and shares for example),
dissocialization (not only children, but adults too), an increase in the
proportion of risky and hazardous behaviors (such as gambling etc). So there is
a wide range of general and specific research problems to be approached from
theoretical, methodological and applied perspectives, and members of IAREP are
invited to address these.
Another
aim of the congress is to contribute to ways of solving the problems emerging
in practice. For that reason, some of the thematic sessions will be focused on
specific topics. There will be an 'Internet Conference' on the web as a special
forum for those who will not be able to join the meeting in person.
As
the Prague meeting represents IAREP's 30th year, the congress
presents an opportunity both to recapitulate and evaluate all that has already
been achieved in the field of economic psychology, as well as outlining
perspectives for future development.
Depending on the demand, the organiser will prepare some pre-congress
workshops, a programme for accompanying persons, social events (such as a visit
to Karlovy Vary, a boat cruise on Vltava River, a guided tour of ancient
Prague, a University promotion ceremony and so on) as well as some
post-congress tours.
For
delegates the Panorama Hotel, located 15 minutes drive from airport, will be
available. It is a 15 minute walk from Prague Castle (president Havel will not
unfortunately be there) and a 20 minute tram-ride from the Centre. There are
all the necessary congress facilities along with an excellent kichen,
accomodation, sauna, swimming pool and fitness centre.
The best time for a meeting in Prague is
the beginning of July i.e. summer
time, but without the higher temperatures and showers that are typical of later
summer. We look forward to welcoming you
all in Prague in 2005!
For details of other events, go to the
IAREP web site at http://www.ex.ac.uk/IAREP/
The
Journal of Socio-Economics
The Journal of Socio-Economics (Elsevier)
welcomes submissions from scholars producing work related to behavioral
economics, psychological economics, experimental economics, institutional economics,
and law and economics. Both theoretical
and empirical papers are welcomed. The JSE is a widely distributed, peer
reviewed journal with a long historical association with SABE.
For more information on the JSE please
click on to:
http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econworld/econbase/soceco/frame.htm
Shoshana
Grossbard-Shechtman
Shoshana is pleased to report that the
first issue of her new journal has been published. For details of the first
issue and to learn more about the Review of Economics of the Household, see
kluweronline.com.
Also, her book Marriage and the Economy
is due to appear with Cambridge University Press,
in March or April.
In Memoriam
Dick
Hessing, 1943-2003
On New Years Day 2003 Dick J. Hessing passed away, at the age of 59.
Dick served as professor in Law and Psychology at the Faculty of Law, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, for over 30 years. Having been trained as a social
psychologists at Leiden University, he obtained his Ph.D. there on a treatise
on the Willingness to donate organs after
death. He developed an attitude-behaviour model in that booklet, in which
he merged elements of the classical Fishbein-Azjen theory, social dilemma
research and the rational choice model topics that have kept recurring in all
of his work. These three topics led him to become interested in economic
psychology, and starting in 1985 at the Linz conference, he became an active
member of IAREP, contributing at least one paper at almost every IAREP
conference until the Bath Conference in 2001. Dick Hessing was a very prolific
researcher, and he published 180 articles, chapters, and books in law and
psychology, economic psychology and criminology, 75 of them in English.
Important topics in his work have been the legislation of organ donation, fiscal
compliance, punishment, biopsychology of crime. Passing his important
contributions in the law and psychology field and his work as a teacher and
research manager, I will here try to sketch Hessings record as a researcher in
economic psychology.
The first thing to be
said about Dick Hessing as a researcher is that he relished team work. He was
at his best as the inspirer of a group of researchers. Based on his fabulous
knowledge of the literature, he was a continuous source of wild and bold ideas
that he sketched to his collaborators, in order to give them the opportunity to
criticise and when necessary reject them. The next day he was back with a fresh
set of suggestions. His enthusiasm, sometimes over-enthusiasm, was only
restrained by his nice habit of knowing how to combine hard working with lots
of fun. Many a researcher will remember Dick not only for his scientific
contributions, but also as the man who always made time, even during the
busiest and most intense research efforts, for a pause with a drink, well,
after all, a few drinks, and some good stories. In this way he was brilliant in
getting the best out of a team, stimulating all participants alike, whether
they were starting students or merited professors. If anything, Hessing was a
research team leader. It is not by chance that all of the publications listed below are featuring at least two to
even up to 12 authors. And Dick was very generous in recognising other peoples
contributions. You could not have disagreement with Dick about sequencing of
authors on a publication, except for denying him the right to be the last in
the row.
Dicks important work in economic psychology
started with research into tax evasion, social security fraud and rule
compliance in general. The attitude-behaviour model already present in his
dissertation developed in what later became to be called the WHE-model, in
which non-compliance was modelled in terms of, on the one hand, personality
traits, and on the other hand, attitudes and norms. It was published as Dicks
first contribution to the Journal of
Economic Psychology. Inherent in this work is a careful consideration of
the quality of measurement instruments, and a shrewd criticism of self-report
measures, published in what Dick himself perhaps thought to be his best
publication, in JPSP, which to Dicks
joy hit the front page of the New York
Times. As a natural corollary to criticism of compliance measures, a search
for better measurement was undertaken, which resulted in work on simulation
methods, together with Paul Webley, Henry Robben and others. Dick organised two
International Workshops on Simulation
Methods in Tax Research in Rotterdam, workshops that, apart for becoming
famous for the non-scientific part of the program, also resulted in an
international co-operation for a comparative research project. This phase of
his work culminated in a book published at Cambridge
University Press and a IAREP Workshop at Rotterdam, resulting in a special
issue Economic Psychological Perspectives
on Taxation of the Journal of
Economic Psychology. Dick served as associate editor for JoEP from 1991-1995, and served as
Visiting Fellow of the British Psychological Society, visiting Universities at
Bath, Exeter and Oxford in 1992-1993.
The WHE-model states
that non-compliance is partly governed by personality characteristics, and in
further work Hessing concentrated on the relevance of egoism in this respect.
Dicks team developed a simple and reliable egoism scale, published in Psychology, Crime and Law. Again at an
international workshop, at Bergen aan Zee, the Netherlands, the explanatory
power of egoism for rule transgression was explored, from red light jumping
until dogs fouling the pavement, and from tax evasion until public drunkenness.
Also the relation with the concept of low self control was explored, and Dicks
work generally evolved closer to criminology, while he tried to incorporate
personality characteristics in standard criminological rational choice and
deterrence theory. Again simulation methods re-occurred, in a Ph.D. project
supervised by Dick, resulting in a series of papers on modelling rule
transgressing within the context of an artificial computer-simulated
environment.
Dick Hessings early
death has halted a very fruitful research program that in the end would have
produced an interesting integration of economic psychological insights into
criminology, and I am sure many of those he has inspired will go on along the
way he has charted for us, stimulated by the example he has set. But
researching without Dick is so much less fun.
Henk Elffers
Morris
Altman, Human Agency and Material
Welfare: Revisions in Microeconomics and their Implications for Public Policy,
Boston, Dordtrecht, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
Morris
Altman, Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance:
Microfoundations of Success and Failure. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
Gerrit
Antonides, Psychology in Economics and
Business, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991.
J.L.
Baxter, Behavioral Foundations of
Economics, Marmillan Press/St Martins Press, 1993.
Kenneth
Button, ed., The Collected Essays of
Harvey Liebenstein, 2 Vols. New York University Press, 1989.
Young
Back Choi, Paradigms and Conventions:
Uncertainty, Decision Making and Entrepreneurship, Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1993.
Richard
Cyert and James G. March, A Behavioral
Theory of the Firm, 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Business,
1992.
Peter
E. Earl, Behavioral Economics, Edward
Elgar Publishing, 1998.
Roger
S. Frantz, X-Efficiency: Theory, Evidence
and Applications, Boston: Kluwer, 1988.
Roger
S. Frantz, Hardinger Singh and James Gerber, eds, Behavioral Decision Making: Handbook of Behavioral Economics,
Greenwich: JAI Press, 1991.
Bruno
S. Frey, Economics as a Science of Human
Behavior: Towards a New Social Science Paradigm, Boston, Dordrecht and London:
Kluwer, 1992.
Daniel
Friedman and Shyam Saunders, Experimental
Economics: A Primer for Economists, New York: Cambridge University Press,
1994.
Benjamin
Gilad and Stanley Kaish, eds., Handbook
of Behavioral Economics, 2 vols. Greenwich: JAI Press, 1986.
Shoshana
Grossbard-Shechtman, On the Economics of
Marriage: A Theory of Marriage, Labor, and Divorce. Boulder, Calorado: Westview Press, 1992.
Charles
Hampden-Turner and Alphons Trumpenaars, Seven
Ways of Wealth Creation. New York: Doubleday, 1993.
Daniel
Kahneman, Paul Slovic and Amos Tversy, eds, Judgement
Under Uncertainty:Heuristics and Biases, Cambridge; Cambridge University
Press, 1982.
Simon
James, ed., Taxation: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy. Four volumes,
London and New York, Routledge, 2002.
Simon
James and Christopher Nobes, The
Economics of Taxation, Principles, Policy and Practice, 7th ed.,
revised, Prentice Hall, 2002.
Bill
Jordon, Simon James, Helen Kay and Marcus Redley, Trapped in Poverty: Labour Market Decisions in Low Income Households.
London: Routledge, 1992.
Bill
Jordan, Marcus Redley and Simon James, Putting
the Family First: Selves, Decisions
and Citizenship, University College London Press, 1994.
Robert
Kuttner, The Economic Illusion: False
Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
Stephen
E.G. Lea, Paul Webley and Brian M. Young, eds., New Directions in Economic Psychology: Theory, Experiment and Application. United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing,
1992.
Tony
Lawson, Economics and Reality, London
and New York, Routledge, 1997.
Harvey
Leibenstein, Inside the Firm: The
Inefficiencies of Hierarchy.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1987.
David
Lester & Bijou Yang, The Economy and Suicide: Economic Perspectives on
Suicide, Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 1997.
David
Lester & Bijou Yang, Suicide and Homicide in the 20th Century: Changes
Over Time, Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 1998.
Alan
Lewis, Paul Webley and Adrian Furnham, The
New Economic Mind: The Social Psychology of Economic Behaviour. New York and London: Prentice Hall, 1995.
George
Lowenstein and Jon Elster, eds, Choice
over Time, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1992.
Shlomo
Maital and Sharon Maital, eds., Economics
and Psychology. United Kingdom:
Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993.
Shlomo
Maital, Executive Economics: Ten
Essential Tools for Managers. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
Roger
McCain, A Framework for Cognitive
Economics, New York: Praeger, 1992.
Marvin
E. Rozen, The Economics of Organizational Choice: Workers, Jobs, Labor Markets,
and Implicit Contracting. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1991.
Hersh
Shefrin, Beyond Greed and Fear;
Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing, Boston:
Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
Robert
J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance. With
a New Preface by the Author, Princeton University Press, 2001.
Andrei
Schleifer, Inefficient Markets: An
Introduction to Behavioral Finance, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Hugh
Schwartz, Rationality Gone Awry? Decision
Making Inconsistent with Economic and Financial Theory, Praeger, 2000.
Herbert
A. Simon, Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in
Administrative Organizations, The Free Press, 1997.
Richard
H. Thaler, The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes
and Anomolies of Economic Life. New York: The Free Press, 1992.
Richard
H. Thaler, ed., Advances in Behavioral
Finance, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.
John
F. Tomer, Organizational Capital: The
Path to Higher Productivity and Well-Being. New York, Praeger, 1987.
John
F. Tomer The Human Firm: A Socio-Economic
Analysis of Its Behavior and Potential in a New Economic Age, New York:
Routledge, 1999.
Karl-Erik
Warneryd, The Psychology of Saving: A
Study on Economic Psychology, Edward Elgar, 1999.
Karl
Erik Warneryd, Stock Market Psychology:
How People Value and Trade Stocks, Edward Elgar, 2001.
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Weiermair and Mark Perlman, eds., Studies
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1990.
John Tomer (Manhattan College)
President and Co-Editor Journal of Socio-Economics
Gary Lynne (University of Nebraska)
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Bijou Yang (Drexel University)
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Simon James (University
of Exeter, UK)
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Morris Altman
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Shlomo Maital
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Member-at-large.
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(Villanova University)
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SABE 2003 Tentative
Conference Program
Behavioral
Economics: What is the Next Step?
Monday, July 28
Thursday, July 31
Cal-Neva Resort, Lake
Tahoe, Nevada, USA
Monday, July 28
3:00 PM-11:00 PM
Check-In (Cal-Neva Resort)
Tuesday, July 29
7:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast and Check-In (Showroom)
8:30-9:00 Introductions
9:00-10:00 Featured Speaker: Professor Robert
Frank (Showroom)
Departures from Rational Choice Without
Regret
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Early Morning Sessions
11:45-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 Early Afternoon Sessions
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Late Afternoon Sessions
4:30-5:30 SABE Business meeting
Wednesday, July 30
7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast (Nevada Room and
California Room)
8:30-10:00 Early Morning Sessions
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Late Morning Sessions
11:45-1:15 Lunch
1:15-6:30 Free Time (Enjoy the beauty of the lake, hike,
swim, catamaran
ride, jet
ski, play golf, water ski, parasail)
6:30-9:00 Optional Tahoe Gal Dinner Cruise
Thursday, July 31
7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast (Nevada Room and
California Room)
8:30-10:00 Early Morning Sessions
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Late Morning Sessions
11:45-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 Early Afternoon Sessions
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Late Afternoon Sessions
4:30-6:00 Break
6:00-7:00 Dinner (Kings Beach Conference Center)
7:00-8:00 Featured Speaker: Professor
Richard DayBehavioral Economics: Its
Implications for
Macroeconomic Theory, Modeling, and Policy. (Kings
Beach Conference Center)
8:00-8:15 Conference Wrap Up (Kings Beach Conference
Center)
Hotel Information
SABE 2003
Conference Location: Conference sessions will be held at the
Cal-Neva Resort, which is located on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe on the
California and Nevada border, USA.
Most conference attendees will
want to book flights to the Reno Tahoe International Airport, which is located
35 miles to the northeast in Reno, Nevada.
The Cal-Neva is about a 2 hour drive from Sacramento California, and
about a 4 hour drive from San Francisco, CA.
Conference Hotel
Address: Cal-Neva
Resort, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA
2 Stateline
Road
PO
Box 368
Crystal
Bay, NV
Phone:
(775) 832-400 or toll free at (800) CAL-NEVA
Fax:
(775) 831-9007
Conference
attendees are encouraged to stay at the conference hotel. Alternative lodging on the Lake Tahoe Rim
will tend to be either more expensive or not as nice. Alternatives will also tend to require that
you have a car, as the distances to the Cal-Neva Resort from most anywhere else
are farther than you will want to walk.
Conference Hotel
Rates: Special rates have been negotiated with the
Cal-Neva for conference attendees.
Lakeview Tower Room (View of Lake from
room): $139/night, plus tax
Tahoe Inn Room (No view of Lake from room
and not as nice): $99/night, plus tax
Making a Hotel
Reservation for the Conference: To reserve a room at the conference hotel
at the special rate, call (800) 225-6382 by June 28, 2003. Let them know you are a SABE 2003 conference
participant. You will have to either
provide a credit card number as guarantee or submit a first nights
deposit. Check in time is 3:00PM and check
out time is Noon.
Ground Transportation Information
SABE 2003
Where to Book your
Flight: Conference sessions will
be held at the Cal-Neva Resort, which is located on the North Shore of Lake
Tahoe on the California and Nevada border, USA.
Most conference attendees will want to book flights to the Reno Tahoe
International Airport, which is located 35 miles to the northeast in Reno,
Nevada. The Cal-Neva is about a 2 hour
drive from Sacramento California, and about a 4 hour drive from San Francisco,
CA. So, these later destinations are
options for those who would like to rent a car and dont mind driving.
Getting to and from the
Airport: There is no convenient
public transportation from the Reno Tahoe International Airport to Lake Tahoe,
and the Cal-Neva Resort does not run a shuttle service. Cab fare is expensive because of the
distance. (I have been told that the
one-way cab fare between the Reno Tahoe International Airport and the Cal-Neva
Resort is about $100.) Given this
situation, the conference organizers have made arrangements to provide
fee-for-service transportation for conference attendees who indicate an
interest on their registration forms. Of
course, renting a car is an alternative for those flying in for the
conference.
If You Desire
Significant Ground Transportation Freedom:
Most
North Shore points of interest around Lake Tahoe are within 15 miles of the
Cal-Neva Resort. However, few points of interest are with a reasonable walking
distance of the Cal-Neva. The South
Shore, with its larger casinos and big name entertainment, is located on the
opposite side of the Lake, about a 45 minute drive from the Cal-Neva. A drive all the way around the Lake takes a
couple of hours. If you desire to have
the freedom to visit points on the Lake at your choosing, you will want access
to a car during your stay. The following
auto rental companies should be able to set you up with a car that you can pick
up and drop off at the Reno Tahoe International Airport:
Alamo
(800) 327-9633 Avis (800)
831-2847 Budget
(800) 527-7000
Dollar
(800) 800-4000 Enterprise (800)
736-8222 Hertz (800) 654-3131
National
(800) 227-7368 Resort (800) 289-5343 Thrifty (800) 847-4389
If You Choose to be
Served by a Conference Shuttle: The conference organizers will rent and staff
a number of vehicles, depending upon the interest of conference attendees. The fee for service fares will be set at
approximate break even prices, and the drivers will work for tips. With some coordination, we expect to be able
to shuttle attendees to and from the airport, as well as to and from other
points of interest at quite reasonable fares.
(For example, a $20 round trip airport shuttle fee should be possible if
there is enough interest. Similarly,
attendees will be able to catch rides to various North Shore locations during
lunch time and in the evenings for nominal fees.) If you would like to be served by a
conference shuttle, indicate your interest by checking the appropriate box on
the conference registration form.
Tentative Featured Speaker Dinner Menu
SABE 2003
July 31, 2003
6:00PM-8:30PM
Kings
Beach Conference Center
A Touch of Basque
Basques came to the
western United States from their native areas in Spain and France, primarily to
herd sheep. A large number of
descendents from the original ιmigrιs still call Nevada home and contribute to
the states cultural diversity with their cuisine and customs. Conference attendees and guests will be able
to partake any or all of the items listed below, selected to provide A Touch
of (the) Basque culture that still permeates Northern Nevada
Appetizers:
Spinach Dip with Basque
Sheepherder Bread and Cruditιs
Assortment of French and
Spanish Cheeses from the Basque Region
Assortment of Olives and
Vegetables from the Basque Region
Salads Bar and
Accompaniments:
Assorted Greens with
Tomato, Cucumber, Peppers, Artichokes, and Pickled Vegetables
Freshly Shredded
Parmesan Cheese, Crumbled Feta Cheese
Pine Nuts, Almonds,
Walnuts and Assorted Rolls
Available Salad
Dressings:
Freshly Prepared Blue
Cheese, Ranch, Thousand Island and Basque Garlic Vinaigrette
Hot Accompaniments:
Roasted Garlic Mashed
Potatoes with Melted Cheese
Barbequed Basque
Sheepherder Beans
Entrees:
Grilled Salmon with
Maple, Garlic and Pepper Glaze
Roast Leg of Lamb with
Red Wine Marinade
Grilled Tri-Tip
Wine
A red selection and a
white selection
Dessert:
Assortment of Cakes
Fresh Fruit Platter
No Host Bar
A no host bar will also
be available so that you may purchase drinks of your choice
Optional Tahoe Gal Dinner Cruise
SABE 2003
The
Tahoe Gal: The Tahoe Gal is replica
of a 19th Century paddlewheel boat.
It sails (launches) out of Tahoe City, which is on the Northwest side of
Lake Tahoe, about a 15 minute drive from the Cal-Neva. 
Lake Tahoe is known for being one of the
clearest Lakes in the world. Economists
might be interested to know that there are very strict regulations (on
development, construction, and use of the Lake) aimed at protecting the clarity
of the Lake, but the measurements over time indicate that the Lake is becoming
less clear. Nonetheless, Lake Tahoe is a
natural wonder, and there is nothing quite like getting out on it. The dinner cruise is about 3 hours in
length.
Cruise Price: The price of the cruise itself is $21, and
this includes tax. If you want to go on
the cruise, the conference organizers will reserve you a spot. The conference organizers will also reserve a
place on the cruise for any guests you would like to take with you. To reserve a place on the optional dinner
cruise for yourself and any guests, include on your registration form a $21 fee
in the appropriate slot for each reservation you would like.
The Dinner: Because the cruise is a dinner cruise,
you will be required to buy dinner.
(Thus, the entire cruise experience will cost you more than $21.) There are a number of entrees offered, and
the prices range from $18 to $24 per dinner.
A gratuity is also expected. If
you go on the cruise, you will pay for your dinner and gratuity on the
boat. A bar will also be available on
the boat where you can purchase drinks as you so choose.
SABE 2003:
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
Personal Information:
Name:
___________________ ________ _______________________
Last First Middle
Initial
Institutional
Affiliation _____________________________________
Address:_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
Phone
_____________ FAX____________ E-Mail ________________
Fees: (Includes
SABE membership renewal for participant and Featured Speaker Dinner for
participant)
Early
regular registration (Prior to May 1, 2003) $150 ________
Early
student registration (Prior to May 1, 2003) 100 ________
Late
regular registration: (After April 30, 2003) $175 ________
Late
student registration: (After April 30, 2003) $125 ________
Optional
Tahoe Gal Dinner Cruise (Wednesday, July 28) $21/person ________
Featured
Speaker Dinner guest $30/person
(Thursday, July 28) ________
Total
Fees
________
Ground Transportation Preference: (Ground
Transportation Information for details)
□ I will rent a car or
arrange for my own transportation while at the conference.
□ I would like to be
contacted about receiving service from a conference shuttle.
Payment Method: You may pay by (1) credit card or (2) check
or money order. Please select the
payment method you desire. If you desire
to pay by credit card, then please provide your credit card number, signature,
and date in the spaces provided.
□
Please debit my credit card for the amount shown on the Total Fees line.
______________________ ____________________________ ______________
Credit Card Number Authorizing Signature Date
□
I am enclosing a check or money order payable to SABE 2003 for the amount
shown on the Total Fees line.
Where to Send Registration Form and Payment: If paying by credit card, please email this
form to Mark Pingle at pingle@unr.edu. If paying by check or money order, please
mail this registration form with payment to:
Registration Acknowledgment: Receipt of fees will be acknowledged by
e-mail (unless a FAX or regular mail acknowledgement is specifically
requested).