Obama's Mortgage Modification Program A Colossal Flop
“If housing tends to lead economic recoveries, then we’re in trouble. This marks the worst post-recession home-buying market since the Great Depression. Nobel laureate Professor Vernon L. Smith, who delivered the keynote address at the Cato Institute’s 30th Annual Monetary Conference on Nov. 15, noted how housing leads both recession and recoveries.” Read the full
IFREE/ESI Lecture Series Presents Quazi Shahriar, Ph.D., "When Does Cheap-Talk (Fail to) Increase Efficient Coordination?"
Dec. 7th, Quazi Shahriar, Ph.D. – When Does Cheap-Talk (Fail to) Increase Efficient Coordination? Abstract: Can cheap-talk always help achieve maximum efficiency in situations that require coordination? Utilizing a class of two-person two-action coordination games, we show experimentally that cheap-talk may or may not be informative, rending it helpful for or detrimental to efficiency (relative
The IFREE/ESI Lecture Series Presents Chew Soo Hong, Ph.D., "How does familiarity breed investment?"
Nov. 30th, Chew Soo Hong, Ph.D. – How does familiarity breed investment? Abstract: In his 1921 Treatise on Probability, John Maynard Keynes offered a striking hypothesis about decision making under uncertainty: “… if two probabilities are equal in degree, ought we, in choosing our course of action, to prefer that one which is based on
New Argyros School Dean Reggie Gilyard makes OC Metro’s ‘Hottest 25′ list for 2012
Call it a warm welcome. Reggie Gilyard, the dean at the Argyros School of Business and Economics, is relatively new in town but has already been honored with one of Orange County’s hottest honors. Gilyard, who began his tenure as the 10th dean of the Arygros School in August, was named to OC Metro magazine’s
Chapman University honors Entrepreneur of the Year Arbonne International CEO Kay Napier
Chapman University’s Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship will host its third annual Entrepreneur of the Year Award Dinner honoring Katherine “Kay” Napier, CEO of Arbonne International. The dinner will take place Feb. 27, 2013, in Chapman University’s Sandhu Conference Center. Kay Napier has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Arbonne International ─ a privately held
Chapman University’s Full-Time MBA Graduates Achieve High Job Placement Rates in 2012
The MBA Career Management Center at the Argyros School of Business and Economics has reported that 80% of its MBA class of 2012 has received job offers within 3 months of graduation. With national unemployment rate hovering around 8 percent (and California’s unemployment rate at around 10%), the current job market can strike fear into
IFREE/ESI Lecture Series Presents: Uri Gneezy, Ph.D. on "Incentives and Behavior Change"
Nov. 9th, Uri Gneezy, Ph.D.– Incentives and Behavior Change Abstract: Economists often emphasize that “incentives matter.” The basic “law of behavior” is that higher incentives will lead to more effort and higher performance. Employers, for example, often use extrinsic incentives to motivate their employees. In recent years, the use of incentives in behavioral interventions has
The IFREE/ESI Lecture Series Presents Glenn Harrison, Ph.D., "Asset Integration and Attitudes to Risk"
Nov. 2nd, Glenn Harrison, Ph.D. – Asset Integration and Attitudes to Risk Abstract: Measures of risk attitudes derived from experiments are often questioned because they are based on small stakes bets and do not account for the extent to which the decision-maker integrates the prizes of the experimental tasks with personal wealth. We exploit the
IFREE/ESI Lecture Series Presents: Michael Baye, Ph.D., "Product Search Online"
Oct. 26th, Michael Baye, Ph.D. – Product Search Online Bio: Michael Baye is the Bert Elwert Professor of Business at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He served as the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the US Federal Trade Commission during 2007 and 2008. Professor Baye has won numerous awards for his outstanding
Argyros Student Profile - Sarah Luna - MBA Candidate
As a new feature of the blog, we will be profiling some of our students at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. This week, we talk to Sarah Luna, an MBA student who is an entrepreneur CEO committed to teaching fitness and well-being. She explains why she chose the MBA program at Chapman University
Dean Gilyard welcomes new senior staff + Don't forget to vote!
Hello ASBE – We will have two new executives that I’m very excited to announce in our administration at the Argyros School of Business and Economics – Dr. Darryl Stephens will be starting on October 29 as the new Assistant Dean of Graduate and Executive Education. All the MBA’s and aspiring MBAs should get to
IFREE/ESI Lecture Series Presents: John Morgan, Ph.D. "On the Merits of Meritocracy"
Oct. 19th, John Morgan, Ph.D. – On the Merits of Meritocracy Abstract: We study career choice when competition for promotion is a contest. A more meritocratic profession always succeeds in attracting the highest ability types, whereas a profession with superior promotion benefits attracts high types only if the hazard rate of the noise in performance