• Graduate Programs
    • Tinbergen Institute Research Master in Economics
      • Why Tinbergen Institute?
      • Research Master
      • Admissions
      • Course Registration
      • Facilities
      • PhD Vacancies
      • Selected PhD Placements
    • Research Master Business Data Science
    • PhD Vacancies
  • Research
  • Browse our Courses
  • Events
    • Summer School
      • Applied Public Policy Evaluation
      • Deep Learning
      • Economics of Blockchain and Digital Currencies
      • Economics of Climate Change
      • Foundations of Machine Learning with Applications in Python
      • From Preference to Choice: The Economic Theory of Decision-Making
      • Gender in Society
      • Machine Learning for Business
      • Marketing Research with Purpose
      • Sustainable Finance
      • Tuition Fees and Payment
      • Business Data Science Summer School Program
    • Events Calendar
    • Events Archive
    • Tinbergen Institute Lectures
    • 16th Tinbergen Institute Annual Conference
    • Annual Tinbergen Institute Conference
  • News
  • Alumni
Home | Events | Frustrating Events and Dynamic Choice: An Event-Based Approach to Negative Emotions
Seminar

Frustrating Events and Dynamic Choice: An Event-Based Approach to Negative Emotions


  • Series
  • Speaker(s)
    Clément Staner (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
  • Field
    Behavioral Economics
  • Location
    University of Amsterdam, Campus Roeterseiland, E0.14
    Amsterdam
  • Date and time

    October 16, 2025
    12:00 - 13:00

Abstract

This paper develops a general theory of how negative emotions, triggered by outcomes that fall short of expectations (“frustrating events”), influence forward-looking behavior. Rather than modeling specific emotions, I characterize them by their triggering events and decompose the incentive channels through which they influence behavior. The decomposition clarifies how these channels interact and identifies when their joint effect is unambiguous. In these cases, comparative statics deliver testable implications when the triggered emotion is known. More importantly, comparative dynamics provide testable implications even when the specific emotion is unknown. I illustrate this through an application to a high-stakes sports environment.