Some markets are ugly. Others work miracles. An article by Vernon L. Smith featured in the Daily Beast. “The Great Recession began in the fourth quarter of 2007. Measured in Depression clock time, 2012 was 1934, when the U.S. economy expanded 7.7 percent. Today such expansion seems remote. Rather, the economy is still stuck in
How Product Labeling Killed Some Truly Righteous Weed and Might Even Raise Your Hospital Bill by Megan McArdle In this article, published in the Daily Beast online, Author Megan McArdle uses experiments run by the Economic Science Institute’s Dr. Bart Wilson to discuss how transparency may have unexpected results to a market. Check out the full
ORANGE, CA – The California Dreamin competition, now in its second year at Chapman University, brought together students from top university entrepreneur programs around the country to prove that they have the best business plan. The event, by invitation only, took place April 26 and 27 and featured 25 schools competing for $230,000 in prize
This blog regularly profiles students at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. This week, we talk to Emily Hormuth, who will graduate from Chapman’s Full Time MBA program in 2014. Name: Emily Anne Hormuth Graduating Year: 2014 Program here at the Argyros School of Business and Economics (ASBE): Full Time MBA Hometown: Tustin, CA
Aspirely will be hosting a Champagne Brunch on April 26, 2013 from 11:00am – 1:30pm. Female entrepeneurs are invited to come meet the Aspirely Moms in a Champagne Brunch full of conversation, resources and connection. To register for the event, please go to the event registration page (use code FAF50 for 50% off). From the
Student entrepreneurs are thriving at Chapman University. With resources like the Leatherby Center for Entrepeneurship and the eVillage, Argyros School students are exposed to a host of opportunities and valuable resources outside of the classroom. In addition to seminars, distinguished speakers, and mentoring programs, the Leatherby Center hosts two business plan competitions annually – the
Apr. 19, Raymond Deneckere, Ph.D. – Multi-Dimensional Screening: A Solution to a Class of Problems Abstract: We develop a general method for solving multi-dimensional screening problems in which the ‘physical’ allocation space is one-dimensional, and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of ‘exclusion’ in the optimal mechanism. We illustrate the application of our
Apr. 12, Caroline Thomas, Ph.D. – N-Dimensional Colonel Blotto Game with Asymmetric Battlefield Values Abstract: This paper describes a geometrical method for constructing equilibrium distributions in the Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric battlefield values. It generalizes to the n-dimensional case a construction method first described by Gross and Wagner. The proposed method does particularly well
This blog regularly profiles students at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. This week, we talk to Junior Bastien, who will graduate from Chapman’s Full Time MBA program in Spring 2013. Name: Junior Bastien Graduating Year: Spring 2013 Program: FT MBA Undergraduate Degree and Institution: NYU – Media,
Apr. 5, David Cooper, Ph.D. – Ambiguity in Performance Pay: An Online Experiment Abstract: Many incentive plans do not include an explicit mapping between workers’ effort and compensation. Potential employees therefore face both risk and uncertainty when choosing whether to accept an employment contract. Using an online labor market, Amazon Mechanical Turk, we study the
Mar. 22, Cary Deck, Ph.D. – Contests with Multiple Targets Bio: Dr. Cary Deck is a professor of economics in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas where he is also the Director of the Behavioral Business Research Laboratory. His research uses controlled laboratory experiments to investigate
This blog regularly profiles students at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. This week, we talk to Nicholas Beas, who is enrolled in Chapman’s Executive MBA “EMBA” program. Name: A: Nicholas Beas Graduating Year: A: 2013 Program here at the Argyros School of Business and