Seminar Venedig Wintersemester 2010/2011

Programme and lecture documentation (if available):

Monday, November 29th

• Milena Iselin: The Impact of Significant Events on a Political Stock Market – German Federal Elections 2009
• Marc Keuschnigg, Eva Negele and Tobias Wolbring: Can Money Buy Happiness? (PDF-Dokument, 95 KByte)
• Karl-Dieter Opp: Rationality and Norms. Can Norms be Integrated Into the Theory of Rational Action? (PDF-Dokument, 70 KByte)
• Peter Graeff and Antonia Stessl: Modelling a Rational Choice Theory of Corruption (PDF-Dokument, 573 KByte)
• Christiane Bozoyan: Fat, Muscles, and Wages
• Andreas Damelang: Vocational Education and Nationality: Wages, Occupational Mobility and Discrimination among Young Workers (PDF-Dokument, 159 KByte)
• Katrin Auspurg: Publication Bias in German Sociology

Tuesday, November 30th

• Johannes Bauer: Selection Probabilities – Simulating the Performance of Random Routes
• Thomas Wöhler: Using GIS for Visualization of Segregation Patterns
• Ryan O. Murphy and Kurt Ackerman: Measuring Social Value Orientation (SVO) (PDF-Dokument, 1,8 MByte)
• Christoph Bühler: Measuring Desired Family Size: First Results from a Dutch Survey (PDF-Dokument, 652 KByte)
• Felix Wolter: Sensitive Questions in Surveys and the Randomized Response-Technique: Theoretical Explanations of Respondent Behavior and Results from a Validation Study
• Thomas Hinz: Unintended Consequences of Supporting Dual Career Couples
• Sonja Vogt: Experimental Studies on Evolutionary Theories of Human Behavior

Wednesday, December 1st

• Andreas Diekmann, Wojtek Przepiorka and Heiko Rauhut: The Preventive Effect of Ignorance. An Experimental Study (PDF-Dokument, 701 KByte)
• Axel Franzen and Sonja Pointner: Group Dynamics in Dictator Games
• Christina Meyer: The Emergence of Reputation in Economic Transactions
• Fabian Winter: The Dynamics of Normative Conflict. An Experimental Simultaneous Offers Game
• Vincenz Frey: Network and Information Effects in the Emergence of Efficient Conventions. Theory and Experimental Findings
• Rolf Ziegler: Small Worlds and Worl Wide Web (PDF-Dokument, 702 KByte)

Thursday, December 2nd

• Roman Hoffmann: Homophily and Influence in Social Networks. An Empirical Study about the Emergence of Leisure Consumption Homogeneity in Friendship Networks
• Anja Gottburgsen and Christiane Gross: Intersectionality - A "New" Approach to Explain Educational Inequality? (PDF-Dokument, 1,6 MByte)
• Michaela Sixt: Rationality and University Drop Out (PDF-Dokument, 302 KByte)
• Dirk Helbing: From Norms to Conflict - An Agent-Based Approach (PDF-Dokument, 13 MByte)
• Dominik Hangartner: What Drives Local Xenophobia: Evidence from Naturalization Decisions in Swiss Municipalities
• Hanno Scholtz: Rational Cognition (PDF-Dokument, 557 KByte)

Poster Sessions

Tuesday, November 30th

• Katrin Auspurg, Thomas Hinz and Thomas Wöhler: The Art of Forecasting Soccer Scores
• Katrin Botzen: Analyzing the Wealth of Regions Using Spatial Econometric Models
• Stephanie Eckamn: The Role of Interviewers in Survey Coverage
• Anja Hellmann and Tobias Wolbring: The Influence of Attractiveness and Reciprocity on Evaluation (PDF-Dokument, 124 KByte)
• Andrea Knecht: Mulitplex Dynamic Social Networks – A Case Study (PDF-Dokument, 213 KByte)
• Ivar Krumpal: A Bayesian Framework for Asking Sensitive Questions via RRT
• Dominik Morbitzer: Limited Farsightedness in Dynamic Networks – An Experiment
• Katrin Paula: Solomon Asch – Normative Social Influence and Individual Incentives. A Replication Study
• Dominikus Vogl: Analyzing the Tendency to Agree in International Surveys (PDF-Dokument, 12 MByte)
• Tobias Wullschleger: Agent-Based Emission Evaluation of Traffic in Dynamic City Models

Wednesday, December 1st

• Lukas Gernand: Individualization or Excess Supply of Relgion? (PDF-Dokument,687 KByte)
• Anja Gottburgsen and Johann Carstensen: The Health-Perspective on Education and Development in Early Childhood in the National Educational Panel Study (PDF-Dokument, 405 KByte)
• Lars Herrmann: Collective Actors in International Environmental Regimes (PDF-Dokument, 127 KByte)
• Christina Kliegl: The Effect of Having Children on Wages in the Early Career of Higher Education Graduates (PDF-Dokument, 67 KByte)
• Peter Kriwy: Health and Environmental Consciousness, Costs of Behavior and the Purchase of Organic Food (PDF-Dokument, 178 KByte)
• Martina Kroher: Deviant Behavior in Everyday Life (PDF-Dokument, 30 KByte)
• Gerhard Krug: Do the Unemployed Profit from Social Networks? Effects on (Non) Monetary Job Characteristics
• Natascha Nisic: Women and Cities
• Basha Vicari: Occupation as an Institution – The Influence on Labour Market Mobility of Career Starters (PDF-Dokument, 444 KByte)
• Thomas Wimmer: Theory and Empirics of Cigarette Smoking