Small Grant for Exploratory Research: DGF-NSF Research Conference on Contextualizing Economic Behavior

研究人员将举行一次会议，由美国国家科学基金会和德国研究基金会(DFG)联合组织和资助。这次会议探讨了行为经济学和经济社会学的最新发展之间的研究前沿。该会议包括80名学者(美国和德国各40名)，他们的研究揭示了这些界限。学者包括代表广泛大学的高级和初级研究人员。经济学和社会学的最新发展表明，在研究经济行为时，需要扩大考虑的概念和变量的范围。他们指出，有必要通过扩大我们对经济行为的内部过程和接触以及其生物学基础的理解，将经济行为置于背景中，并重新思考经济行为本身。会议的目的是探索几个研究社区在这些问题上的进展，并将这些社区跨越学科边界聚集在一起。会议形式旨在加强跨学科交流，探索研究社区之间的共识和分歧。会议集中在一个主题上，由最多四个演讲和一名讨论者组成，他们被选为代表不同研究社区的人。预计初级学者将出席并参与整个会议，海报会议提供了一个介绍原创研究的场所。广泛的影响包括发展跨学科研究倡议，传播研究生和博士后研究，以及增强美国和德国合作研究的可能性。

SES-0836134AbstractThe investigator will hold a conference, jointly organized and funded between the US National Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (DFG. This conference explores research frontiers between recent developments in behavioral economics and economic sociology. The conference includes 80 scholars,(40 each from the US and Germany) whose research informs these boundaries. Scholars include senior and junior researchers representing a broad range of universities.Recent developments in economics and sociology point to the need to broaden the range of concepts and variables taken into consideration when economic behavior is studied. They point to the need to contextualize economic action and to rethink economic behavior itself, by broadening our understanding of its internal processes and engagements as well as its biological foundations. The objective is to explore the advances in several research communities with regard to such questions, and to bring these communities together across disciplinary boundaries.The conference format is designed to enhance cross-disciplinary exchange and explore agreements and disagreements between the research communities. Sessions are focused on a single topic, and consist of up to four presentations and one discussant who are selected to represent different research communities. Junior scholars are expected to attend and participate in the full conference, and a poster session provides a venue for presentations on original research.Broader impacts include the development of cross-disciplinary research initiatives, dissemination of graduate student and post-doc research, and enhancement of US/Germany collaborative research possibilities.