Vernon Smith, pictured here, in 1997 when IFREE started. Thank you for supporting IFREE, the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics, for 25 years! IFREE is closing under its original plan to sunset after 25 years. If you would like to continue to support, please do so by visiting The Vernon L Smith Experimental Economics Education Fund at the Alaska Community Foundation.
Apply for the 2022 Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics
The 27th Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics will be held at Chapman University, January 11-15, 2022. This workshop provides an introduction to laboratory methods in economics for Ph.D. students. Participation in experiments is followed by a presentation from the workshop faculty. Free to apply and to attend!
Visit IFREE’s Graduate Workshop page to learn more and apply.
The 2021 Vernon L. Smith Ascending Scholar Prize is announced
Congratulations to Dr. Judd Kessler, Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, on being awarded this year’s Ascending Scholar Prize. Click here to read official announcement.
Apply for the 2021 Graduate Student Virtual Workshop in Experimental Economics
January 8-10, 2021 IFREE will sponsor its 26th Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics at Chapman University. Due to Covid-19, the workshop will be shorter than in prior years, and all sessions will take place over Zoom. The workshop begins with a virtual reception on the evening of Friday, January 8, and continues Saturday and Sunday with Socratic roundtable discussions lead by Dr. Vernon Smith and Dr. Bart Wilson.
Visit IFREE’s Graduate Workshop page to learn more and apply.
The 2020 Vernon L. Smith Ascending Scholar Prize is announced
Congratulations to Dr. Anya Samek, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management, on being awarded this year’s Ascending Scholar Prize. Click here to read official announcement.
Go Inside a Computational Microeconomics Summer Camp
Read about this summer’s IFREE-sponsored Computational Microeconomics Summer Camp. Every year, Kevin McCabe, George Mason University, hosts a computational economics workshop for undergraduates. This year it is remote. Continue reading the Medium article by Bill Tulloh. Part two.
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.
Online archive of video seminars available
Over 200 video lectures available online from past IFREE Lecture Series at the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University. Click ‘Past Lectures’ to access video links.
In addition , online resources available to those interested in learning more about Experimental Economics.