Author name: jcunning

"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

Nov. 2nd, Glenn Harrison, Ph.D.  – Asset Integration and Attitudes to Risk Abstract: Measures of risk attitudes derived from experiments

Oct. 26th, Michael Baye, Ph.D. –  Product Search Online Bio: Michael Baye is the Bert Elwert Professor of Business at

Oct. 19th, John Morgan, Ph.D. – On the Merits of Meritocracy Abstract: We study career choice when competition for promotion

Oct. 12th, Jonathan Meer, Ph.D.– An Experimental Analysis of Charitable Donations of Time and Money Abstract: We conduct a laboratory