BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d7e1d47618fd7a82ad1e92d93f808963 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20230311T111725 SUMMARY:A session on "Lying for Votes" by Dr. Subhasish Dugar DESCRIPTION:The FLAME Center for Economics & Public Policy (CEPP) cordially invites you to join a talk on "Lying for Votes" by Dr. Subhasish Dugar. About the  event: To what extent do pivotal nonpartisan voters believe and act upon po tentially deceptive messages from partisan voters who privately observe can didates’ ex-ante fitness-for-office attributes? How do nonpartisan voters’ responses to messages vary with changing odds of candidates’ ex-ante suitab ility for office? This talk derives contrasting predictions regarding pivot al nonpartisan voters’ reactions to possibly untruthful messages across two -candidate voting competitions and tests them in the laboratory. We find th at the partisan voters lie substantially more when candidates possess unequ al than equal ex-ante odds of performing better in office. The inferior (su perior) candidate’s base transmits more unfavorable (favorable) lies about their opponent (own) candidate. Facing candidates with different fitness-fo r-office odds, the nonpartisan voters largely ignore the message and vote f or the ex-ante superior candidate. Yet, voting efficiency is lower in the c ompetition with differentiated than undifferentiated candidates. We develop a behavioral framework, including lying aversion, to explain key features of our data.About the speaker: Prof. Subhasish Dugar is an Associate Profes sor of Economics at the University of Utah, USA. Before joining the Univers ity of Utah, Prof. Dugar was an Associate Professor in Economics at the Uni versity of Calgary, Canada.Prof. Subhasish's research and teaching interest s include Psychology & Economics, Laboratory & Field Experiments, A pplied Game Theory, Micro Theory, Norms & Economics, Managerial Economi cs, and Economics of Organizations. He has extensively worked in several as pects of Behavioral Economics, and his papers are published in top-tier eco nomics journals. The profile links of Prof. Subhasish Dugar with a detailed list of his publications are shown below:https://scholar.google.ca/citat ions?user=KY1njVEAAAAJ&hl=enhttp://subhasishdugar.weebly.com/\nhttps://faculty.utah.edu/u6008419-SUBHASISH_DUGAR/research/index.hml< /a> X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The FLAME Center for Economics & Public Policy (CEPP) cordially in vites you to join a talk on "Lying for Votes" by Dr. Subhasish Dugar.
About the event: To what extent do pivotal n onpartisan voters believe and act upon potentially deceptive messages from partisan voters who privately observe candidates’ ex-ante fitness-for-offic e attributes? How do nonpartisan voters’ responses to messages vary with ch anging odds of candidates’ ex-ante suitability for office? This talk derive s contrasting predictions regarding pivotal nonpartisan voters’ reactions t o possibly untruthful messages across two-candidate voting competitions and tests them in the laboratory. We find that the partisan voters lie substan tially more when candidates possess unequal than equal ex-ante odds of perf orming better in office. The inferior (superior) candidate’s base transmits more unfavorable (favorable) lies about their opponent (own) candidate. Fa cing candidates with different fitness-for-office odds, the nonpartisan vot ers largely ignore the message and vote for the ex-ante superior candidate. Yet, voting efficiency is lower in the competition with differentiated tha n undifferentiated candidates. We develop a behavioral framework, including lying aversion, to explain key features of our data.
About the speaker: Prof. Subhasish Dugar is an Ass ociate Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, USA. Before joinin g the University of Utah, Prof. Dugar was an Associate Professor in Economi cs at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Prof. S ubhasish's research and teaching interests include Psychology & Economics, Laboratory & Field Experiments, Applied Game Theory, Micro T heory, Norms & Economics, Managerial Economics, and Economics of Organi zations. He has extensively worked in several aspects of Behavioral Economi cs, and his papers are published in top-tier economics journals. The profil e links of Prof. Subhasish Dugar with a detailed list of his p ublications are shown below:
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=KY1njVEAAAAJ&h l=en
http://subhasishdugar.weebly.com/
https://faculty.utah.edu/u6008419-SUBHASISH_DUGAR/research/in dex.hml
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