{"id":1923,"date":"2015-01-16T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/business\/2015\/01\/16\/20th-visiting-graduate-student-workshop-in-experimental-economics\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:40:27","slug":"20th-visiting-graduate-student-workshop-in-experimental-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/2015\/01\/16\/20th-visiting-graduate-student-workshop-in-experimental-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"student<\/a>Jan. 6th-10th<\/strong>
\n, the
\nEconomic Science Institute<\/a>
\n, with a generous grant from the 
\nInternational Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE)<\/a>
\n, hosted 23 doctoral students from universities all over the world for the 20th Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics.
\n
\nIn a series of 11 sessions, the students first participated in an economic experiment as a naive subject would and then afterwards discussed with the faculty member the research questions and methods of the project. Presenting faculty, from Chapman except where noted, included:
\nGabriele Camera<\/a>
\n,
\nBrice Corgnet<\/a>
\n, Alan Gelder,
\nDan Kovenock<\/a>
\n, Kevin McCabe (George Mason University),
\nDavid Porter<\/a>
\n, Ryan Oprea (University of California, Santa Barbara),
\nJared Rubin<\/a>
\n,
\nTimothy Shields<\/a>
\n,
\nVernon Smith<\/a>
\n,
\nNathaniel Wilcox<\/a>
\n,
\nBart Wilson<\/a>
\n, and
\nAbel Winn<\/a>
\n.
\n
\nThe topics of the modules covered a broad range of applications, including principal agency, virtual worlds, and game theory of contests and monetary policy. Vernon Smith and Bart Wilson, the workshop director, also led Socratic roundtable discussions for which the students had in advance read essays and selections of writings by W.S. Jevons, F.A. Hayek, and Vernon Smith.
\n <\/p>\n

The students left the workshop with a deeper appreciation for the philosophy of economic science, insights into the practical skills for conducting experimental research, and a broader exposure to new questions that researchers are exploring with economic experiments.<\/strong>
\n
\n
\nHere is what participants had to say about the workshop: <\/p>\n