Conference Trip to Pori
This week, I was lucky lucky to be in the Annual Meeting of the Finnish Association (KT-päivät), which is the biggest conference in my field in Finland. Here are some few words about the keynote speakers in the conference and photos of the facilities. The conference started with coffee that we missed and a registration around 10 am. It took 2.5 hours by car to get there and we enjoyed seen the sunrise. In the fist day, we had one amazing keynote speaker Ulrike Malmendier who spoke about experimental economics that is a new field withing economics taking into account the psychological capacity of humans. She told us about research ideas that related to own experience counting for more than read knowledge. Her students had made a small experiment with Chinese farmers. They had one control group, one group that was told how beneficial the (heavily subsidized) insurances were (from now on "more educated group") and one group that played games ("own experience group...