2019 IFREE Summer Scholars Application now open

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The 2019 IFREE Summer Scholar program will be held at Chapman University on Monday, June 10 through Friday, July 13.
All applicants must either have participated in the Vernon L. Smith High School Workshop or have taken at least one course from the faculty at Chapman University’s Economic Science Institute (ESI) at the undergraduate level.

To learn more and apply, please visit the Summer Scholars Page on the Chapman Website.

Thank you to the Thomas W. Smith Foundation for generously sponsoring this workshop with IFREE.

IFREE 2018: Year in Review

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Another successful year for IFREE! Here are some highlights:

We started the year with the 23rd annual Graduate Workshop hosted at Chapman University and the Latin America Workshop and Conference, held for the first time in Bogota.

This summer was busy!

The annual High School Workshop in Experimental Economics and Summer Scholars Program at Chapman University.

The first IFREE Undergraduate Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Economics at Purdue University.

The IFREE Undergraduate Workshop in Computational Experimental Economics at George Mason University. The University of Alabama undergraduate student workshop in experimental economics.

Vernon Smith and Roman Sheremeta

The 2018 Vernon L. Smith Ascending Scholar Prize was awarded to Dr. Roman Sheremeta.

IFREE made seven research grants through the Small Grants program.

IFREE continues to support visiting speaker series at Chapman University and the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Look for new and exciting projects supported by IFREE in the new year! Thank you for supporting IFREE!

IFREE funds 6 new grants!

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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.