Argyros Student Profile – Scott Shaffstall – MBA Candidate
This blog regularly profiles students at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. This week, we talk to Scott Shaffstall, who was awarded the “Tomorrow’s Leader” scholarship this year. Name: A: Scott Duane Shaffstall Graduating Year: A: 2014 Program here at the Argyros
Event Insider: A Look At the Distinguished Speaker Series Event with Guest Dennis Kuhl
The Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University regularly hosts the Distinguished Speaker Series. This event brings a selection of accomplished business leaders to campus to share their varied professional and personal insights. Beginning with a dinner reception, the students are provided the opportunity to network with fellow attendees from the local business
ASBE Student Profile - Onur Saltturk - MBA Candidate
This blog regularly profiles students at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. This week, we talk to Onur Saltturk, an MBA student from Istanbul, Turkey. Graduating Year: May 2013 Program here at the Argyros School of Business and Economics (ASBE): Full time MBA Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey Undergraduate Degree: International Business & Economics Undergraduate Institution:
Finance students meet Wall Street’s movers and shakers during winter travel course
Two dozen students from the Argyros School of Business and Economics (ASBE) at Chapman University enjoyed an informative – if nippy – trip to New York City this winter to meet with some of the top executives and representatives of the Wall Street financial world. “Walk on Wall Street,” taught by Terry Burnham, associate professor,
IFREE/ESI Lecture Series Presents, Ron Siegel, Ph.D., "Large Contests"
Feb. 1st, Ron Siegel, Ph.D. – Large Contests Abstract: We consider contests with many, possibly heterogeneous, prizes and players that include many existing contest models as special cases. We show that the outcome of such contests is approximated by an appropriately defined set of incentive-compatible individually-rational single-agent mechanisms. Bio: Ron Siegel is an assistant professor
Argyros Alumus Paul Anderson elected to Nevada assembly
Chapman University alumnus Paul Anderson ’96 , R-Las Vegas, was elected Nov. 6 to the Nevada State Assembly. He graduated Sigma Beta Delta from Chapman in 1996 with a degree in business administration. That same year, he started a technology consulting company called AndersonPC. The company offers services throughout the western United States, with clients
Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business and Economics opens the Janes Financial Center equipped with Bloomberg terminals for real-time student investment and portfolio management education
Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business and Economics is pleased to announce the opening of the Janes Financial Center with an event on February 5, at 6 p.m., featuring keynote speaker Mr. William “Bill” Thompson, retired chief executive officer of PIMCO. Housed in Beckman Hall, the trading floor-like center provides students and the entire campus
Hackathon event for software engineers, entrepreneurs to be hosted on campus
Chapman University, in partnership with AnyMeeting.com, a leading provider of web conferencing, will be the host site for the AnyMeeting WebRTC Hackathon planned Saturday, Jan. 26. Influxis, a live streaming and real-time application hosting provider, has signed on to be a sponsor of the event along with TokBox, creators of the OpenTok video platform, who
"Experimental Economics: Understanding the Financial Crisis" By Vernon L. Smith
It is five years since the Great Re-cession began in the fourth quarter of 2007. Measured in Depression Clock Time, it is 1934, when the U.S. economy expanded 7.7 percent. Today no such expansion is on the horizon. Rather, the economy is still mired in a low-growth rut, only the second such severe downturn since
Eighteenth Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics Hosted at Chapman University
Jan. 6th-10th, the Economic Science Institute, with a generous grant from the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE), hosted 24 doctoral students from universities all over the world for the 18th Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics. In a series of 10 sessions, the students first participated in an economic experiment as
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