IFREE Funds Four New Grants!

We are excited to announce four IFREE-funded grants that will support exciting research in experimental economics!

Are you a previous IFREE high school workshop participant or Chapman undergraduate Humanomics program student interested in more intense work to build on what you’ve learned?  Apply for the Summer Scholars Program hosted at Chapman University this summer, June 11 – July 13, 2018. The application is now open and the deadline to apply is Friday, March 9, 2018 at 5 p.m. PST. Here you can find every type of scholarships and for every career you desire, you can look for past projects and check all of them, including  the poetry scholarships 2017, medicine, law and other art related.

The scholars and their mentors, Profs. Jan Osborn and Bart Wilson, will meet daily as a reading group to discuss papers in experimental economics and literature as well as develop and analyze research data.

  • “Manipulation in Prediction Markets,” Todd Kaplan, University of Exeter, UK (Lawrence Choo, Ro’i Zultan)
  • “Project Selection and Competitive Cheap Talk,” Eric Schmidbauer, University of Central Florida (John Hamman, Miguel Martinez-Carrasco)
  • “Media and Motivation: the Micro-Foundations of the Market for News,” Emilia Tjernstroem, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ivan Balbuzahov)
  • “Do Negative Random Shocks Affect Trust and Trustworthiness?” Ismael Rodriguez-Lara, Middlesex University London (Hernan Bejarano, Joris Gillet)

Learn more about the grant recipients and their research projects.