Transcript Can science enhance ethics in society?

Research Priority Area
Behavioral Economics
Can science enhance ethics in society?
Economics and Business | Communication lab workshop
24 February 2017 | Royal Tropical Institute
Ethical conduct is the backbone of successful organizations and societies. To effectively facilitate
ethical behavior, managers and policy makers seek to use all tools available to them, including
scientific research. Indeed, ample scientific work is devoted to uncover the settings most likely to
increase ethical behavior and root out ethical misconduct. But to what extent does science tackle
and answer the questions that policy makers care about? Do scientific insights feed into policies
shaped in international organizations like the World Bank, OECD, as well as local ones like the Dutch
Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)? How can we verify that questions policy makers care
about are indeed studied on the basic level? To what extent should we stimulate research on open
policy questions? And what are the challenges and limits of science in informing policy making? This
interactive symposium brings together policy makers and scientists seeking to tackle these questions
together. The meeting is sponsored by the Research Priority Area Behavioral Economics (UvA;
Communication Lab), European Research Council, Young Academy of Europe, and is hosted by
Economics and Business, UvA.
Date and time: February 24th, 2017, 09:00 to 17:30, reception till 19:30.
Location: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute)
Address: Mauritskade 63, 1092 AD Amsterdam
Attendance: free but requires registration via this link
Directions (by public transport): From Amsterdam Centraal Station take tram 9 in the direction of
Diemen (Sniep). Get off after 7 stops at a stop called ‘Alexanderplein’ (16 minutes). From tram stop
Alexanderplein to Royal Tropical Institute:
Research Priority Area
Behavioral Economics
Marmeren Hall
08:30-09:15
Coffee and registration
Mauritszaal
09:15-09:30
Welcome and opening: Han van Dissel, Dean, Economics & Business, UvA
Session 1
Chair: Roel Beetsma Vice Dean, Economics & Business, UvA
09:30-10:15
Lamar Pierce, Washington U. St. Louis, How the Social Preferences and Financial
Incentives of Sales Agents Shift Consumer Finance Risk
10:15-11:00
Ousmane Diagana, Vice President for Ethics and Business Conduct (EBC),
World Bank Group: The ethics of policy design
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
Session 2
Chair: Theo Offerman, UvA
11:30-12:15
Michel Marechal, University of Zurich
12:15-13:00
Danny van Dijk, The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)
13:00-14:00
Lunch
Session 3
Chair: Carsten de Dreu, Leiden University
14:00-14:45
Uri Gneezy, San Diego: Incentives and (un)ethical behavior
14:45-15:30
Simon Bentholm, /KL.7, Copenhagen: The endeavors of building national
campaigns on applied behavioral science and evidence
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
Session 4
Chair: Deanne den Hartog, UvA
16:00-16:45
Jörg Gross, Leiden University: The moral hazard of voluntary staff rotation
16:45-17:30
Nicola Bonucci, director legal affairs OECD: What can behavioral science bring to
the fight against transnational bribery?
17:30-17:35
Shaul Shalvi, UvA, closing words
17:35-19:30
Reception
Organizing committee: Theo Offerman and Shaul Shalvi
Local arrangement committee: Robert Helmink and Suzanna Berg