IFREE Proudly Announces the Spring 2020 Small Grant Awards

“Rule-based Behavior, Punishment and Long Run Cooperation,” Diego Aycinena, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Columbia; Praveen Kujal, Middlesex University, UK

“Monetary Networks,”Edoardo Gallo, University of Cambridge; Maria Bigoni, University of Bologna; Gabriele Camera, Chapman University and University of Bologna

“Potential Entry and Heterogeneity in Sequential Contests,” John D. McMahan, University of Tennessee; Scott Gilpatric, University of Tennessee

“Does Income Mobility Predict Preferences for Income Redistribution?” Bradley Ruffle, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada; Tongzhe Li, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

“Advice and its Impact on Social Learning in Developing Countries,” Marie Clair Villeval, University of Lyon, France; Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, Australia; Maitra, Pushkar, Monash University; Joseph Vecci, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

To learn more about the grants, visit the IFREE Small Grants Awarded page.

IFREE Proudly Announces the Fall 2019 Small Grant Awards

  • “Beyond Dominant Strategy Mechanism Design: Is Strategic Simplicity Good Enough?”Ahrash Dianat and Mikhail Freer, University of Essex, UK
  • “Anchor or Asset? Reporting External Obligation.” Laura Razzolini (University of Alabama), Shakun Mago (University of Richmond) and Jennifer Pate (Loyola Marymount University)
  • “The Effect of Seed Money and Matching Gifts in Fundraising: A Lab Experiment.” Piruz Saboury, Silvana Krasteva and Marco Palma, Texas A&M University
  • “Social Signaling: A Study in Welfare Stigma.” Natalia Valdez Gonzalez and Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University
  • “Competition In Information: An Experimental Study of Bayesian Persuasion in a Search Environment.” Daniel Woods and Tim Cason, Purdue University
  • “Natural Resource Windfalls and Demands for Government Accountability: Evidence from the Lab.” James Alexander and James Murphy (University of Alaska, Anchorage) and Maros Servatka (Macquarie Graduate School of Managemeny

To learn more about the grants, visit the IFREE Small Grants Awarded page.

IFREE funds 6 new grants!

We are excited to announce that IFREE have funded six new grants that will support exciting research!

  • “Twice Losers: how the shadow of cheating affects tax behaviors and norms,” Michela Boldrini, University of Bologna
  • “Ours, not yours: earned property rights, collective action and deterrence in CPRs,” Javier E. Portillo. Birmingham-Southern College
  • “The Effect of Ineffectiveness: Donor and labor response to information regarding microcredit ineffectiveness,” Laura Schechter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • “An Experimental Test of The Commodity Pricing Model with Storage,” Katerina Sherstyuk and Michael J. Roberts, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
  • “How to design corporate prediction markets? A lab-experimental study,” Christoph Siemroth, University of Essex
  • “The Hidden Advantage of Promises: Pareto Improvements in a Gift-Exchange Game,” Peilu Zhang, Texas A&M AgriLife Research

To learn more about the grants, visit the IFREE Small Grants Awarded page.

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.

What is the effect of Testosterone on financial trading and prices?

IFREE Grant Recipients, Amos Nadler et al., wanted to study just that. Using male participants, the researchers divided them into two groups. One group received a placebo treatment and the other received a topical gel containing andro 400 testosterone. The participants traded in a market experiment. The research, published in Management Science, shows that increasing testosterone in men increases bid prices, generates larger and longer-lasting bubbles, and slows the incorporation of fundamental value. This is the first experimental study to study how testosterone affects trading and prices. The research results have wide implications outside the laboratory and are significant to consider when discussing the stock market and other financial markets.

Read the paper online: The Bull of Wall Street: Experimental Analysis of Testosterone and Asset Trading

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