Workshop on stress and social economic decision-making

Monday 20th March, 2017

10am-6pm, followed by wine reception, SCR, Arts Two Building, Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Campus, E14NS

Organizers: Francesca Cornaglia (Queen Mary University of London) and Klaus Wälde (Gutenberg University Mainz)

Supported by Living with Feeling and the School of Economics and Finance, QMUL.

This workshop brings together researchers that work at the frontier between economics, psychology and health with a focus on emotions, stress and related topics. We are looking for papers that analyse these issues both from a psychological as well as from an economic perspective. Examples include analyses of the effects of stress on behaviour, the effect of competition on mental distress, the modelling of coping strategies and others. Empirical and experimental research is welcome, as well as theoretical works or surveys.

The workshop is intended to leave a lot of room for discussions. One central theme would be: how can one bridge the gap between economic and psychological approaches such that it is beneficial for both disciplines? One way we will be encouraging this interaction is by inviting economists as discussants for psychological presentations and psychologists as discussants for economic ones.

Confirmed contributors include Larbi Alaoui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Italo Colantone (Bocconi University), Christian Dormann (Gutenberg University Mainz) and Klaus Wälde (Gutenberg University Mainz).

The conference is public and open to all. Everybody interested in attending should send an email to Francesca Cornaglia <f.cornaglia@qmul.ac.uk>, including your complete name, position and affiliation by 5pm on March 13th.

Accommodation

If you are attending the workshop and planning to stay over in London you might want to consider the following accommodation options:

Goodenough Club: centrally located, 4* accommodation.

Doctor in the House: accommodation agency for professionals

The Royal Foundation of St Katherine: ex-medieval church specialty lodgings in East London.

QMUL also provides a longer list of local hotels.

Please note that these options are provided for your information and are not endorsed by us.