Oct. 12th, Jonathan Meer, Ph.D.– An Experimental Analysis of Charitable Donations of Time and Money Abstract: We conduct a laboratory experiment to test if there are differences in behavior when subjects can donate either time or money to charity. Our subjects perform an effort task to earn money. In one treatment they can have their
Chapman University is hosting the Cross-Border Entrepreneurship Conference (“CBE”) to be held on Saturday, October 20, 2012. This conference will provide opportunities for individuals, members of business and professional organizations, private capital and government entities from both the United States and Mexico to explore alliances among operating companies and investor groups on both sides of the
As students look for different social circles to be a part of, it is easy to just think of groups such as sports teams, fraternities and sororities. However, there are also students who dedicate their free time to groups that coincide with their future goals once they leave Chapman. These groups can be found here
ASBE’s Undergraduate Office of Career Planning and Placement is proud to announce that beginning Monday, October 8th, OCPP starts an entire month of full-time accounting interviews for our graduating seniors. In addition to 10 accounting firms, ASBE is excited to have JP Morgan Chase who will be here to recruit graduating seniors in finance and business for their 2013 Commercial Banking Analyst Program.
Hey ASBE crowd, I have two quick things to share with you about this table. This Summer I decided to leave BCG, the company shown as #2 (for second year running) on Fortune’s annual list of “100 Best Companies To Work For”, to join you at this FANTASTIC institution because ASBE is just
Oct. 5th, Joshua Tasoff, Ph.D. – Exponential-Growth Bias and Lifecycle Consumption. Abstract: Exponential-growth bias (EGB) is the tendency for individuals to underestimate exponential growth to the neglect of the role of compounding. We develop a theoretical model in which EGB causes consumers to mis-perceive the budget constraint. Because consumers dynamically mis-perceive prices, consumers will over-consume
Professor Vernon Smith, 2002 Nobel laureate in economics, is in Chile this week and will receive an extraordinary honor – he will be appointed an Honorary Fellow at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, a private institution in Valparaiso, “for his seminal contributions on experimental economics and liberal thinking,” the university has announced. Read full article in
Sept. 28th, Charles Thomas, Ph.D. – An Alternating-Offers Model of Multilateral Negotiations Abstract: I modify a standard infinite-horizon alternating-offers model of bilateral negotiations to analyze multilateral negotiations, an exchange process in which a buyer attempts to purchase from one of several sellers offering potentially different amounts of surplus to be split. Rival sellers constrain the
September 24th, the New York Times featured “In Bolivian Amazon, a Yardstick for Modern Health” discussing the Tsimane Health and Life History Project, which Dr. Hillard Kaplan, an affiliate of the Economic Science Institute (ESI), and Dr. Eric Schniter, a Post Doctoral Research Associate Professor with ESI are both involved with. ESI’s Dr. Nathaniel Wilcox,
Sept. 21st, David Stephens, Ph.D. – The Natural History of Acquisition: Evolution, foraging, impulsiveness and behavioral plasticity. Further reading for this lecture. Abstract: The animals, including humans, descend from an ancient lineage of resource acquiring organisms: i.e. foragers. This talk will focus on how this evolutionary history has shaped the mechanisms of decision-making. The talk
Consumer Confidence is at a 5-year high, according to the latest research released by the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University. The Anderson Center measures Consumer Confidence with the California Composite Index of Consumer Confidence. The index is generated based on consumers’ outlook on current and future economic conditions, and an
Sept. 7th, Gary Charness, Ph.D. – Experimental Games on Networks Abstract: We study behavior and equilibrium selection in experimental network games. We vary two important factors: (a) actions are either strategic substitutes or strategic complements, and (b) subjects have either complete or incomplete information about the structure of a random network. Play conforms strongly to