RESEARCH
IFREE is funding, has funded, and/or seeks to fund research in:
- specialization, exchange and property rights
- reciprocity, trust and trustworthiness in personal exchange
- statistical methods and economic modeling for experiments
- financial market bubbles: behavior and modeling
- joint venture property rights
- network markets: electricity, natural gas, gasoline, and water
- mechanisms in e-commerce
- auction design: combinatorial, clock auctions
- anti-trust: bundling and interchange pricing
- policy analysis: pollution emissions, spectrum policy, space policy experiments in neuroeconomics
EDUCATION
Scholarships and Fellowships:
- Graduate scholarships
This year IFREE is supporting 9 graduate students with full or partial tuition waivers and has supplied research grants for subject payments to 9 advanced students. Over the 10 years since IFREE’s inception the number of students supported has averaged 6 per year in each category. - Pre-doc and Post-doc, Senior Faculty Visitors
In 2007, IFREE is supporting one pre-doc visitor and two senior faculty visitors, and over the 10 years since its inception IFREE has regularly supported one pre-doc and one post-doc each year. - 2 Distinguished Fellows (since 1998)
- 14 High School Summer Interns
- First Summer Intern Program 2006: Six student interns participated.
- Second Summer Intern Program 2007: Five students will participate.
OUTREACH WORKSHOPS
Graduate workshops since 1995; Undergraduate: 2005; High School: 1997
- 323 participants from 12 week-long Visiting Graduate Student workshops in experimental economics. Their fields include economics, psychology, philosophy, political science, science, engineering and anthropology.
- 450 participants from 19 week-long high school student workshops. As with the graduate students, their interests are broad ranging; most are now enrolled at prominent universities.
- 60 from the recently inaugurated visiting undergraduate workshops.
- 21 faculty located at 12 universities, many of whom are alumni of the IFREE graduate workshops and were pre- or post-doctoral visitors at George Mason University or the University of Arizona where IFREE originated.
INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
- IFREE co-sponsored the International IFREE-Tinker Conference on the Use of Experimental Economics in Resource Allocation in Electricity and Water Markets in Spain (1999)
- co-sponsored faculty, graduate student workshop at initiation of Experimental Economics Research Center Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2003)
- IFREE 10th Anniversary Conference and Gala: ‘Understanding Exchange Systems:10 Years of Research and Education’ (2007)
SPEAKER SERIES
- Science of Liberty Speaker Series: to promote collaborative discussion of market-oriented solutions to contemporary policy issues
SOFTWARE AND PROGRAMING
- hand held ultra-portable PC’s for demonstrations, workshops, seminars
- experimental economics programmer support, 2006–2007
- programming in 2006-2007 of 16 teaching experiments for both PC networks and the ultra-portable PC’s
ASSISTANCE WITH BOOK MANUSCRIPTS (expected publication date 2008)
- Economic Systems Design: Market Design Principles and Applications, Dave Porter
- Analyzing Economics Experiments the Right Way (working title), Mark Olson