Mannheim Empirical Research Summer School (MERSS)

MERSS 2009 will take place from Sunday, 5 July 2009 to Friday, 17 July 2009. We always fix the start and end that students are able to make arrangements for travel. The first meeting is an informal get together at 8pm on Sunday, 5 July 2009. On the final day Friday, 17 July 2009 the student presentations are finished at 1pm. You will be able to catch a train at Mannheim main station from 1:30pm. Please find the program of the summer school below.

Also have a look at the MERSS 2008 diary.

Program 2009

The program 2009 is preliminary and subject to changes.

A large part of the program is contributed by four teachers that we have invited for the school. However, students also have the possibility to contribute to the program.

Lectures take place in the SFB 504, L 13, 17, room 512.
The workshops will be held in L 7, 3-5, room 1.58 (computer pool of the economics department)

Sunday, July 5, 2009:

20:00 Informal meeting in the restaurant 'ZENTRALE' in N 4, 15

Monday, July 6, 2009:

9:00-9:30 Welcome and student project group formation in L 13, 17, room 512
9:30-10:45 Lecture Arthur van Soest
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-l2:30 Lecture Arthur van Soest
l2:30-14:00 Lunch break
l4:00-15:30 stata Workshop
l5:45-17:00 Student project work

Tuesday, July 7, 2009:

9:00-10:30 Lecture Arthur van Soest
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-l2:30 Lecture Arthur van Soest
l2:30-14:00 Lunch break
l4:00-14:30 Student presentation: Christine Werthmann, Community-based aquaculture in the Mekong Delta of Cambodia and Vietnam
14:30-15:00 Student presentation: Georg von Heusinger, Introducing a focal point in the threshold public goods game: Experimental investigation
l5:15-16:30 stata Workshop

Wednesday, July 8, 2009:

9:00-10:30 Workshop on experimental methods by Julian Rode
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-l2:30 Workshop on experimental methods by Julian Rode
l2:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:30 Workshop on experimental methods by Julian Rode
15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-17:00 Workshop on experimental methods by Julian Rode

Thursday, July 9, 2009:

Day off

Friday, July 10, 2009:

9:00-10:30 Lecture Urs Fischbacher
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-l2:30 Lecture Urs Fischbacher
l2:30-14:00 Lunch break
l4:00-15:30 ztree Workshop
l5:45-17:00 Student project work: experimental design and instructions

Saturday, July 11, 2009:

9:00-10:30 Lecture Urs Fischbacher
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-l2:30 Lecture Urs Fischbacher
l2:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:30 Student presentation: Bodo Aretz, Collect More Donations by Improving the Design of Solicitation Letters - A Field Experiment
14:30-15:00 Student presentation: Christine Binzel, The limited effects of social distance on trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum
15:00-15:30 Student presentation: Stefan Vetter, Fairness and Cheating
from l6:00 Arena of pop at Mannheimer Schloss

Sunday, July 12, 2009:

11:37-12:00 Local train to Heidelberg Karlstor, Mannheim main station, track 9
13:00-16:00 Heidelberg guided tour (in English)
16:00 Meet David Laibson for informal get together

Monday, July 13, 2009:

9:00-10:30 Lecture David Laibson
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-l2:30 Lecture David Laibson
l4:00-15:30 Student project work: experiment preparations
l5:45-17:00 Student project work: experiment preparations

Tuesday, July 14, 2009:

9:00-18:00 Student project work: Conducting own experiments in the lab, Carsten Schmidt

Wednesday, July 15, 2009:

9:00-10:30 Lecture Vassilis Hajivassiliou
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-l2:30 Lecture Vassilis Hajivassiliou
l2:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-l5:30 Lecture Vassilis Hajivassiliou
l5:45-17:00 stata Workshop
19:00 Dinner at the restaurant "Rheinterrassen - Das Gasthaus am Fluß", Rheinpromenade 15

Thursday, July 16, 2009:

9:00-10:30 Lecture Vassilis Hajivassiliou
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-l2:30 Lecture Vassilis Hajivassiliou
l2:30-14:00 Lunch break
l4:00-15:30 Individual meetings with Vassilis Hajivassiliou
l5:45-17:00 Student project work: prepare presentation

Friday, July 17, 2009

9:00-13:00 Presentation of student project work

We might have additional workshops and student presentations.

MERSS is a joint enterprise by members of the Faculties of Economics and Business Administration at Mannheim University. Local organisation: Carsten Schmidt and Julian Rode at Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging at Mannheim University.