Mar. 8, Tony Kwasnica, Ph.D. – A Laboratory Comparison of Auctions and Sequential Mechanisms Abstract: When bidders incur a cost […]
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"Let’s Talk: How communication affects contract design."
Feb. 1st, Ron Siegel, Ph.D. – Large Contests Abstract: We consider contests with many, possibly heterogeneous, prizes and players that
It is five years since the Great Re-cession began in the fourth quarter of 2007. Measured in Depression Clock Time,
Jan. 6th-10th, the Economic Science Institute, with a generous grant from the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE),
“If housing tends to lead economic recoveries, then we’re in trouble. This marks the worst post-recession home-buying market since the
Talk (Fail to) Increase Efficient Coordination?"
Nov. 30th, Chew Soo Hong, Ph.D. – How does familiarity breed investment? Abstract: In his 1921 Treatise on Probability, John
Nov. 9th, Uri Gneezy, Ph.D.– Incentives and Behavior Change Abstract: Economists often emphasize that “incentives matter.” The basic “law of
