The workshop on “Applied Behavioral Economics” will be hosted by the University of Bucharest., as a part of the 4^th International Conference in Economics and Administration, ICEA 2012, and it is supported by the International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics, an official publication of IGI – Global, USA.

The author of the best paper will get a prize of 500 euro, as well as the opportunity to conduct the workshop. In case that the paper has more than one author, the first author will share the prize with his/her colleagues. The preliminary conditions for an author to enter the competition for getting this prize are: to be registered to the conference and to attend the event in person.

Submissions should be directed to Professor PhD. Elena Druica, University of Bucharest, Department of Economic and Administrative Sciences, druica_e@faa.ro or elenadruica@yahoo.com

Details about registration fee and how to pay it are available here:

The workshop invites conceptual and empirical papers in the field of Applied Behavioral Economics. It aims at examining the main applications of Behavioral Economics in business and organizations, both in classical terms as well as influenced by digitalization and new technologies. Behavioral Economics arises from research that shows human boundary rationality and failures in acting in “self”—interest, loss aversion, among others—influence the making of economic choices and decisions. Despite the importance of an interdisciplinary perspective, the practical applications of this research are not well represented. The workshop intents to promote papers that show a direct link between Behavioral Economics and concrete, practical applications at a business and organizational level, with a special focus on the effects of technology implementation and usage on economic agents’ perception, behavior, and decision-making processes. 

Deadline for manuscript submissions: March 1st, 2012

Coverage

Topics to be discussed in this workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:

·         Applications of behavioral economics findings in public policies

·         Applied evolutionary economics and psychology

·         Behavioral factors influencing supply and demand of health and health services

·         Branding/advertising issues and organization behavior

·         Boundary rationality and impact on making decisions in business and organizations

·         Changes in economic behavior meaning in the globalization age

·         Consequences of decisions, judgment and choices with respect to producers’ results

·         Consumer behavior, marketing and digital marketing in the globalization age

·         Cross-cultural behavioral variation with impact on business and organizations

·         Differences between market behavior and individual behavior and their implications in business

·         Economic and social costs of addictive behaviors

·         Economic and socio-psychological determinants of e-organizations’ behavior

·         Factors influencing preferences, judgment, choices, decisions and the way they impact consumer behavior

·         Impact of new technologies on supply and demand of health and health services

·         Impact of procedural rationality in decision making process

·         Impact of technology diffusion on wealth, consumption and happiness

·         Impact of technology implementation in “procedural rationality” risk reduction

·         Individual and organizational decision making: consumption and non-consumption related factors

·         Inter-temporal choices with impact on savings and investments

·         Loss aversion and risk evaluation at business and organizational level

·         Methodological aspects in experimental economics with applications in business

·         New technologies related to consumption and environment

·         Rational behavior under imperfect competition with implications at business level

·         Social and psychological impact of macroeconomic policies on business and organizational behavior

·         The overconsumption society: determinants and effects in the globalization age

Submission

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. The length of the submitted manuscript should fall between 5,500 to 8,000 words and appear in 12pt, single-spaced text, left-justified. The papers will be subjected to a double blind review process and, in case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference.

AS THE PAPERS ARE INTENTED TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS, IJABE, INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:

Professor Dr. Elena Druica
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics,http://www.igi-global.com/ijabe

E-mail: elenadruica@yahoo.com 

              druica_e@faa.ro