Keynote Speakers

James Andreoni is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California San Diego. He is a Sloan Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, past President of the Economic Science Association, former Co-Editor or the Journal of Public Economics, and co-founder of the Association for the Study of Generosity in Economics.  

Over his career, Andreoni has published widely in the fields of public finance, law and economics, environmental economics, experimental and behavioral economics, economic decision-making, and measuring risk and time preferences.   Over the years, however, Andreoni has maintained a persistent interest in altruism, fairness, and charitable giving.  He has contributed to the theoretical foundations of the economics of altruistic behavior, has used both lab and field experiments to test these theories, and written extensively on tax policy toward the charitable sector in the US, Great Brittan, and Canada.

This keynote is sponsored by STICERD

B. Douglas Bernheim is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, and is a former Sloan Foundation Fellow and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.  

Professor Bernheim’s research has spanned a variety of fields including public economics, behavioral economics, game theory, contract theory, industrial organization, political economy, and financial economics. In his best-known work, he introduced the concepts of rationalizability strategic behavior, coalition-proof Nash equilibria, common agency, and menu auctions, and he provided theories of multimarket collusion, exclusive dealing, conformity, Veblen effects, and the equal division norm. Recently he has focused on developing a general framework for behavioral welfare economics and applying it to problems in public economics. His newest research agenda involves “positive welfare economics” – the study of how people make assessments about the well-being of others, both individually and in groups.  

This keynote is sponsored by the LSE Hayek Programme

John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wyoming. List joined the UChicago faculty in 2005, and served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2012-2018. Prior to joining UChicago, he was a professor at the University of Central Florida, University of Arizona, and University of Maryland.

His research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on using field experiments to address both positive and normative issues. For decades his field experimental research has focused on issues related to the inner-workings of markets, the effects of various incentives schemes on market equilibria and allocations, how behavioral economics can augment the standard economic model, on early childhood education and interventions, and most recently on the gender earnings gap in the gig economy (using evidence from rideshare drivers).

His research includes over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and several published books, including the 2013 international best-seller, The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life (with Uri Gneezy).

This keynote is sponsored by Frontier Economics