Behavioral | Economics at UC Davis

Keith Chen (UCLA)

Keith Chen, UCLA "Behavioral Responses to Wildfire Smoke: Insights from Smartphone Location Data" (with Clara Berestycki)

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Title: "Deliberation and Differences Determine Difficult Decisions" joint with David Buschena and David ZilbermanAbstract: We propose a dual-process similarity-based explanation for when and how choices are made.

Indira Puri (NYU)

Economic theory and empirics to answer questions in household finance and complexity (Exact paper and title TBA)

May 11, 2026 @ 4:10pm - 5:10pm
Executive Board Room 3102, Graduate School of Management
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Guidon Fenig (Ottawa)

"Learning from Ranks"

Juan Carrillo (USC) "Dynamic Coordination with Local Information: How Networks Learn, Mislearn, and Converge"

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Canishk Naik (Berkeley) "Interpersonal Utility Comparisons: Welfare, Ambiguity, and Robustness in Behavioral Policy Problems"

Inconsistent choice undermines the revealed preference foundations of traditional welfare economics, leading to controversy about policymaking in the presence of behavioral frictions.