Vol. 8 No. 2

November 1998

Editors: Morris Altman and Shlomo Maital

Please send your email plus name and affiliation to Altman@sask.usask.ca so that you can be placed on SABE’s email list. This will allow you to be informed immediately of all of SABE’s most recent activities.

The annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics will take place at San Diego State University (SDSU), Sunday, June 13, and Monday, June 14, 1999. A social gathering is planned for Saturday night, June 12. The theme of the conference is Economics and Other Social Sciences. We encourage a broad range of papers (theoretical, empirical, and policy oriented). We are especially interested in papers that compare economics with other social science disciplines, such as psychology, political science, organizational behavior, sociology, and anthropology.

Proposals for papers and offers to serve as session chairs and/or discussants are welcome from members and nonmembers.

Check on the SABE web site (http://www.usask.ca/economics/SABE/) for news and updates on the conference.

Featured speakers include

Please send proposals for paper presentations and session proposals to Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman or Christopher Clague. Paper proposals should be accompanied by a short abstract.

The official deadline for submissions is April 15, 1999, but we would appreciate an earlier response.

Economics Department

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182 U.S.A.

Tel: 619 594-5468(work), (619) 457-3969(home)

Fax: 619 594-5062

Email: Shosh@mail.sdsu.edu

The Registration Fee is $80 US for SABE members and $90 for non-SABE members, includes two dinners and a lunch. Rooms are available to conference participants at a local hotel, walking distance from campus, at a cost of either $50 or $55 US (+ tax of around 8%), provided reservations are made in advance.

Please send Registration Form to:

Maureen Mcdonnell

Economics Department

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA 92182 U.S.A.

Phone: 619-594-1673 ; fax: 619-594-5062

e-mail: mcdonnel@mail.sdsu.edu

The following accommodations are available, at discount rates to guests of the conference.

Aztec Budget Inn

Lamplighter Inn

For the year 2000 SABE and IAREP will jointly organize a conference which will take place in the internationally known resort of Baden, located just outside of Vienna.

The Conference title is:

Some may recall the previous two joint SABE/IAREP Conferences. Both were a great success.

The most recent joint conference took place in Rotterdam, July 10-13, 1994 and was entitled: Integrating Views on Economic Behavior. The first joint conference took place in Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, July 9-11, 1996 and was entitled: Annual Colloquium on Choice and Exchange.

The program for the conference is still in the planning stage. SABE’s contribution to the Conference’s scientific committee are Morris Altman and Kishor Thanawala. Erich Kirchler of the University of Vienna and IAREP is the local organizer of the event. We are hoping for at least some sessions that include both economists and psychology so as encourage dialogue between our two disciplines.

The Conference will take place at the beautiful Hotel Schlo8 Weikersdorf, Baden that can accommodate about 250 people. Baden is a small resort town situated about 25 km from Vienna. It is famous for its spa and imperial history.

We hope that the conference fee can be kept to about $280 US, which will cover meals, coffee and a small social program.

The published papers are:

Robert Taylor, ‘The Ethic of Care versus the Ethic of Justice: An Economic Analysis," pp. 479-493.

Sheryl B. Ball and Catherine C. Eckel, "The Economic Value of Status," pp. 495-514.

Kevin D. Frick and Neil R. Power, "The Decision to Cover a Procedure at HMOs: Who Makes the Call," pp. 515-533.

Professor Kishor Thanawala organized a highly successful group of sessions for SABE. Attendance was typically much above the average for a SASE session and a fair number of the attendees were not SABE members. These sessions introduced many new faces to SABE.

The SABE Sessions:

Morris Altman (Organizer)

Morris Altman (Organizer)

Morris Altman (Organizer)

Bijou Yang (Organizer)

Erich Kirchler and Erik Hoelzl (Organizers)

Flora Gill (Organizers)

Kishor Thanawala (Organizer)

Kishor Thanawala (Organizer)

John Tomer (Organizer)

Kishor Thanawala (Moderator)

Richard Coughlin

Jerry Hage

Wolfgang Streeck

Rogers Hollingsworth

Morris Altman

Richard Hattwick

John Tomer

SABE’s traditional ASSA poster session, is being organized this year by Morris Altman in cooperation with the Industrial Relations Research Association.

For more details on the poster session see SABE’s next newsletter.

Congratulations to John Tomer on the forthcoming publication of his new book: The Human Firm: A Socio-Economic Analysis of its Behavior and Potential in a New Economic Age. Routledge, 1999

The Board thanked Kishor Thanawala for organizing an excellent group of well-attended sessions in Vienna. Kishor was also inducted into the SABE Board unanimously.

Bijou Yang, the SABE Treasurer reported that SABE has up to 180 members. Most SABE members do not diligently pay their membership dues. This is a problem that still needs to be addressed.

Richard Hattick, Editor of the Journal of Socio-Economics, reiterated the Journal’s commitment to SABE as an outlet for publications in general and specifically as an outlet for publications of selected papers presented at SABE meetings.

There was also extensive discussion on SABE’s forthcoming conference in San Diego, following a presentation by John Tomer, the SABE President, based on a letter from Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman. Following this discussion, the SABE Board recommended that the Conference commence Saturday evening with a reception since most participants will have to stay over on a Saturday evening to obtain a flight discount. It was also suggested that the Conference be comprised of regular sessions as opposed to poster sessions. Finally, it was suggested that the Conference proceeding be published. Flora Gill graciously agreed to coordinate this effort and develop specific guidelines.

The Board agreed to continue the tradition of having a poster session during the ASSA meetings. Bijou Yang volunteered to organize this year’s session.

Art Goldmith (Editorial Board member) and Morris Altman (Associate Editor), of the Journal of Economic Psychology, pointed out that this journal welcomes submissions from economists. Work done by SABE members represents a good fit with what this journal would like to publish more of.

Three journals openly welcome submissions from SABE members with all of the methodological predispositions expected of SABE fellow and sister travelers.

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RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIPS NOW!

We are requesting that all current members renew their membership for the year 1998 if you have not already done so. We plan to send reminders to individuals who have not renewed their membership Ultimately, we will have to stop mailings to these members.

Your fees provide SABE with capacity to publish a newsletter, organize conferences, as well as performing other good deeds.

The 24th annual colloquium of the IAREP will take place in Belgirate, a lake resort on Lago Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy, from June, 30 to July, 3, 1999. Papers are solicited in any field of economic psychology and psychological economics. Experimental works and papers relating to the following topics are particularly welcome: alternative approaches to economics; animal and human economic behaviour; culture and economics; economics and psychology of extremism; ethics and economics; individual differences; qualitative methods; time and economic behaviour. Whoever is interested in organising a Special Session is invited to contact the scientific committee as soon as possible.

Organizing Committee (e-mail address: iarep99.org@de.unito.it):

Alberto Cassone, Gianna Lotito, Guido Ortona (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy); Prosperina Chada, Francesco Scacciati, Roberto Trinchero (Università di Torino, Italy).

Scientific committee (e-mail address: iarep99.scientific@de.unito.it):

Roberto Burlando and Paul Webley (chairing), Christine Roland-Levy, Friedel Bolle, Carole Bourgoine, Hermann Brandstatter, Henk Elffers, Colin Gray, John Hey, Erich Kirchler, Stephen Lea, David Routh.

Further details will be found on the following web address:

www.cisi.unito.it/associazioni/iarep1999

Registration and hospitality The Meeting will take place in the four-star Hotel Villa Carlotta. Approximately 120 participants will stay in the hotel, and some 30 in nearby four-star Hotel Milano. Other participants will stay in other hotels, not far away. Cheap accomodation will be available. The individual cost for full participants, including meals, four-star accomodation, social activity, IAREP membership and proceedings, will amount to 450-500 Euros (1 Euro = $1.2 approximately). Credit Card payments are welcome.

The Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) has brought together representatives of labor, management, government, and academics advocates and neutrals, for 50 years. Founded in 1947, IRRA has more than 4,000 members, in the areas of labor and management relations, academic research and education, human resources, public policy, union administration, labor and employment law, and others.

IRRA has been a faithful friend of SABE, allowing us to use their poster facilities at the ASSA meetings for many years. One of these poster sessions, held in New Orleans during the 1991 ASSA meetings was instrumental in reviving a once moribund SABE. SABE members whose research touches human resources are urged to become IRRA members.

For further information, contact Kay Hutchison, Administrator, IRRA, Univ. of Wisconson-Madison, 4233 Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison WI 53706-1393, tel: 608-2622762, fax 608 - 265 4591.

St Catherine's College, Oxford University

28th to 30th June 1999

Conference Committee Professor Gordon Clark, Oxford University (Chair), Dr Paul Anand, The Open University and Risk Decision and Policy (Conference Secretary), Ian Duncan (Oxford), Elizabeth Howard (Templeton College, Oxford), Dr I. Langford (University of East Anglia), Professor L Sjoberg (Stockholm School of Economics), Dr Clive Splash (Director Cambridge University Environment Research), Dr Andy Strirling (SPRU Sussex), Dr Mark v Vugt (Southampton)

Submissions particularly welcome in the following areas: Environment Risk, Global Environmental Change, Decision-Making and Consensus Seeking, Institutional Strengthening, Issues for and contributions from Business, Green Accounting, Medical Geography, Environmental Economics, Environmental Psychology, Environmental Politics and Applied Philosophy

Drawing together academics from a wide range of disciplines including behavioural geography, economics, psychology, decision and risk analysis, management and political sciences, with representatives from government, business and NGOs, the conference will explore, inter alia: some of the problems and their relative importance in objective and perceptual terms; what has been achieved by business and government agencies trying to establish products or capacities that deal with key problems; and what remains to be done and the likely development of policy and process over the next 10 years and beyond. The event will compromise keynote speakers invited from public and private sectors, panel debates, a large number of contributed current research papers, a welcome reception and a conference dinner at St Catherine's College.

A 300 word abstracts with a 50 word bio should be sent to i.d.manzi@open.ac.uk. First call due by 15th December. A small selection of conference papers will appear in a special issue of Risk Decision and Policy ( http://journals.routledge.com/rdp.html ).

Registration: Corporate Rate £350; Public Sector £250; Academic and NGO Rate £149; Conference Dinner £30

Registration covers: conference attendance, paper abstracts, welcome drinks reception and a free personal subscription to Risk Decision and Policy for 1999. Presentation time is 20 to 25 minutes inclusive of questions. Payment by cheque, or international money order in sterling payable to Risk Decision and Policy at PO Box 21 Wheatley, Oxfordshire, UK.

Please forward information on books, articles, or conferences which might be of interest to our members to: Professor Morris Altman, Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan, 9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5A5

John Tomer (Manhattan College)

President

Li Way Lee (Wayne State University)

Secretary

Bijou Yang (Drexel University)

Treasurer

Morris Altman (University of Saskatchewan

Coeditor of the SABE Newsletter

Shlomo Maital (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

Coeditor of the SABE Newsletter

Gerritt Antonides (Erasmus University and the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology)

Member-at-large

Richard E. Hattwick (Western Illinois University)

Flora Gill (University of Sydney, Australia)

Member-at-large

Art Goldsmith (Washington& Lee University )

Memeber-at-large

Noah Meltz (President, Woodsworth College, University of Toronto)

Member-at-large

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman (San Diego State University)

Member-at-large

Harinder Singh (Grand Valley State University)

Member-at-large

Kishor Thanawala (Villanova University)

Member-at-large