CALL  FOR  PAPERS   
  
  
International Conference  
  
Reciprocity: Theories and Facts  
  
  
February 22-24, 2007  
  
University of Milan-Bicocca  
  
Milan - Italy  
  
   
  
Sponsored by  
  
Department of Economics  
  
UNIVERSITY OF MILAN-BICOCCA  
  
  
Department of Economics  
  
UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI  
  
  
  
Submission deadline: 31 August 2006  
  
  
Reciprocity is a growing issue in economics and in other social sciences  
today. It is also a very controversial issue too. For many scholars  
reciprocity is an instance of enlightened self-interested favored by  
repeated encounters. For others, notably behavioral economists, reciprocity  
is �strong reciprocity�, a social norm that prescribes cooperation with  
cooperators and punishment for non-cooperators even at personal cost. Each  
of these perspectives seems to consider the other as a  special case not  
particularly relevant in social matters.  
  
The aim of the conference is to gather economists from these two  
perspectives, as well as political scientists, anthropologists,  
neuroscientists and psychologists, to initiate a dialogue between the two  
approaches, to show, maybe, that there can be important complementarities  
between the different ways of understanding reciprocity.  
  
   
  
        
  
Keynote Speakers  
  
   
  
1.    James Andreoni (Economics - University of California, San Diego) (TBC)  
  
2.    Cristina Bicchieri (Philosophy - University of Pennsylvania)  
  
3.    Jon Elster  (Political Science - Columbia University)  
  
4.    Armin Falk  (Behavioral Economics - University of Bonn) (TBC)  
  
5.    Simon G�chter (Economic Psychology - University of Nottingham)  
  
6.    Vittorio Gallese (Human Physiology - University of Parma)  
  
7.    Herbert Gintis (Economics - University of Massachusetts)  
  
8.    Russell Hardin  (Political Science - New York University)  
  
9.    Kevin A. McCabe (Neuroeconmics - George Mason University)  
  
10.   Aldo Rustichini (Economics - University of Minnesota)  
  
11.   Joel Sobel (Economics - University of California, San Diego) (TBC)  
  
12.   Robert  Trivers (Anthropology - Rutgers University) (TBC)  
  
   
  
   
  
Topics of interest include:   
  
   
  
�     Trust and Reciprocity  
  
�     Foundational and Historical Aspects  
  
�     Game-theoretical Models  
  
�     Experiments  
  
�     Neuroscientific basis of trust and reciprocity  
  
�     Institutional Design and Policy Implications   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
Important Dates   
  
   
  
Electronic Submission Deadline: August, 31  2006  
  
Notification of acceptance: October, 15 2006.   
  
   
  
   
  
Paper Format and Submission  
  
   
  
Authors must submit an two-page extended abstract, in pdf format, to    
  
   
  
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Conference Scientific committee  
  
   
  
-     Luigino Bruni (University of Milano-Bicocca)  
  
-     Mario Gilli (University of Milano-Bicocca & CISEPS)  
  
-     Benedetto Gui  (University of Padova)      
  
-     Vittorio Pelligra (University of Cagliari)  
  
-     Pier Luigi Porta  (University of Milano-Bicocca)  
  
-     Robert Sugden (University of East -Anglia)  
  
-     Stefano Zamagni (University of Bologna)  
  
  
  
  
Luigino Bruni