Chapman University professor and the 2002 Nobel laureate in economics, Vernon L. Smith, Ph.D., will be present for the first week of a workshop for high school students, gathering from from all over the nation, at Chapman from June 25-29. His namesake Vernon L. Smith High School Workshop in Experimental Economics will then continue for a second session, July 2-3 and 5-6, with another group
Chapman University alumnus Michael Koll is one of 37 out of 90,000 candidates to receive the 2011 American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Elijah Watt Sells Award. The announcement from the AICPA came earlier this month. Koll—a Chapman University 2011 graduate with a degree in accounting—is the only recipient from a university located in
Reginald (Reggie) H. Gilyard has been selected as the new dean of the George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics. He will replace Arthur Kraft, who served as dean since January 2006, and who announced last year his decision to retire. A search committee engaged in a national search to select Dean Kraft’s replacement
Brigham Young University has won the 2012 California Dreamin’ Business Plan Competition. Hosted by Chapman University in Orange County on Saturday, April 28th, 17 universities sent their best entrepreneurs to compete in the inaugural California Dreamin’ business plan competition. With ideas ranging from an inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicle to a PDF scrapping service for collision
Chapman University hosted their annual Business plan competition on Friday, April 20th. 5 teams out of the 27 entered made the final round of the competition. SweetTreats took home the 1st prize and $5,000 in startup funding. Badoonga took home the 2nd prize as well as some seed funding. With its first place finish, SweetTreats was
This is a profile of rising entrepreneurs Charles Lee, Siddharth Ganji, & Christopher Ramirez of Badoonga. Are you ever the last one to hear about an event? Badoonga and its founders plan to eliminate this issue. Currently in alpha phase, Badoonga is an online social-interest sharing calendar that aims to link people to nearby events
An article about international banking crises by Clas Wihlborg, Ph.D., the Fletcher Jones Chair in International Business at Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business, has been chosen as an Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012, by the Emerald Group. The article is titled “International Comparisons of Bank Regulation, Liberalization,
May 4th, Tim Groseclose, Ph.D. – Signaling Games and Media Abs tract: Cai and Wang (2005) conducted a laboratory simula tion of the Crawford-Sobel “strategic information transmission” game. The researchers were most interested in observing the amount of inform ation that senders in the game transmitted to receivers. Consequently, they did
On March 30th, 2012, 130 people gathered for one purpose: to start a brand new business in less than 54 hours. Startup Weekend Orange County (SWOC), hosted annually at Chapman University, provided an exciting avenue for entrepreneurial minds to come together, collaborate and innovate in an accelerated environment. All Startup Weekend participants have an opportunity
April 20th, Shawn Kantor, Ph.D. – Do Research Universities Generate Local Economic Growth? Abstract: We estimate the local agglomeration spillovers from research university activity in a sample of urban counties. We use the fact that universities follow a rigid endowment spending policy based on the market value of their endowments to identify the causal effect
Apr. 13th, Sean Crockett, Ph.D. – Do Reference Dependent Preferences Really Matter? Bio: Sean Crockett is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College, City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 and was a postdoc at Caltech for two years afterward. His
The article “Underwater Recession” authored by Economic Science Institute’s Professors Steven Gjerstad, Vernon L. Smith and, Graduate of the Economic Systems Design program, Joy Buchanan will be published in The American Interest: Policy, Politics & Culture’s May/June 2012 issue. “The U.S. economy is stuck in a painfully slow recovery. Neither accommodative monetary policy nor fiscal