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ESI Brown Bag Workshops

Working on exciting research and looking for an audience? Stuck on a problem and needing input? Look no further. The Economic Science Institute hosts a weekly brown-bag luncheon and paper workshop for faculty and students in the Argyros School of Business and Economics and the Schmid College of Science in Wilkinson Hall Room 116. Present your current research in an informal environment, and get feedback on your work.

Each workshop begins at 11:50am and lasts one hour. Participants are invited to bring a brown-bag lunch to eat as they ask questions and offer suggestions to our presenters.

If you would like to present your work, send an email to Eric Schniter with dates on which you'd be willing to speak, along with a brief summary of your research. We ask presenters to submit projects with (at minimum) preliminary results; more complete papers are always welcome. Obviously, we don't expect to fill the list all at once, so each week in our reminder email we will send out a list of available dates and accept new submissions. We’re looking forward to hearing about your work!

Scheduled Talks

Feb. 7th - Eric Schniter - Conflicted Minds and Recalibrational Emotions

Feb. 14th - Nat Wilcox - Is the premise of risk calibration theorems plausible?

Feb. 21st - Brian Gunia - Contemplation and Conversation: Subtle influences on moral decision making

Feb. 28th - Open

Mar. 6th - Open

Mar. 13th - Open

Mar. 20th - Pablo Garza - More information will be posted at a later date

Mar. 27th - Nikos Georgantzis - More information will be posted at a later date

Apr. 3rd - Open

Apr. 10th - Open

Apr. 17th - Ron Harstad - More information will be posted at a later date

Apr. 24th - Graduate student presentations of final projects - More information will be posted at a later date

May 1st - Graduate student presentations of final projects - More information will be posted at a later date

May 8th - Graduate student presentations of final projects - More information will be posted at a later date

May 15th - Open

Recent Speakers

Feb. 2nd - Tim Cason - Identity, Bounded Rationality, and Coordination in the Inter-Group Prisoner’s Dilemma

Jan. 31st - Marco Casari - Time Horizon and Cooperation in Continuous Time

2011 Brown Bags

Dec. 6th - Ricardo Mateo - The Influence of the Tidy Work Environment in the Reliability of the Conscientious Individuals

Nov. 29th - Gregrey Hunter - Controlling for Ancillary Information in Welfare Measurement Experiments

Nov. 15th - Rachel Bodsky - Getting the Thesis Green Light: Aggregation of Information in Prediction Markets

Nov. 8th - Terence Burnham - Caveman Economics

Oct. 18th - Dan Kovenock - All-Pay Auction with Complete Information and Identity-Dependent Externalities

Sept. 27th - Joaquin Gomez-Minambres - Motivation Through Goal Setting: How can we experimentally test the theory?

Sept. 20th - Jonathan E. Alevy - Asset Price Paths and Trader Personality: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments.

May 17th - Joseph Cole - An Experimental Evaluation of a Model of Endogenous Quality Differentiation

May 11th - Charlie Schaezlein - Adventures with my final thesis

May 10th - Joy Buchanan - Information Effects in Multi-Unit Dutch Auctions & David Munro - Combinatorial Clock Auctions: Price Direction and Performance

May 3rd - Matt Shum - Strategic Behavior or Impatience? A Field Experiment of Jump Bidding in On-line Ascending Bid Auctions

Mar. 3rd - Jerry Jordan - Inner Workings of the Open Market Committee

Jan. 25th - Pablo Brañas Garza - A City Playing Games

2010 Brown Bags

Dec. 7th - Nat Wilcox - Model Error and Model Invariance in Discrete Choice: Some current research (Part 2)

Nov. 30th - Nat Wilcox - Model Error and Model Invariance in Discrete Choice: Some current research

Nov. 16th - George Ng - Multilateral Bargaining in the Anticommons

Nov. 9th - Nat Wilcox & Eric Schniter - An Information Foraging Model of Others’ Skills: Evidence from Tsimane’ Expert Nominations

Nov. 4th - Masao Ogaki - Worldviews and Intergenerational Altruism

Oct. 26th - Romen Sheremeta - Multi-Battle Contests: An Experimental Study

Oct. 20th - Steve Gjerstad & Vernon Smith - Household expenditure cycles and economic cycles, 1920 – 2010

Oct. 12th - Tim Shields & Roman Sheremeta - Do Liars Believe?

Oct. 5th - Andreas Wilke – Past and Present Environments: The Evolution of Decision Making

Sept. 28th - Abel Winn - The Role of Money Illusion and Focal Points in Nominal Price Adjustment

Sept. 21st - Diego Aycinena Abascal - Valuation Structure in First Price and Residual Value Auctions: An Experimental Investigation

Sept. 14th - Joy Buchanan - An Experiment on Protecting Intellectual Property

Sept. 7th - Dave Porter - Durability, Re-trading and Market Performance

May 5th, Ryan French - Grad Student Presentation

April 30th, Tim Joseph - Grad Student Presentation

April 21st, Amy Buchmann - Grad Student Presentation

April 14th, Larry Iannaccone & SangHo Yoon - Sects Education

Mar 17th, Maurice Doyon - The Truncated k-Double Auction: An Experimental Design for Canadian Egg Producers

Mar 3rd, Larry Iannaccone & Mike McBride - Economics of Religion

Feb 24th, Kyndra K. Rotunda - From Halting Trials to Indefinite Detention: Analyzing the Limits of Executive Power during War Time

Feb 17th, Vernon Smith & Steven Gjerstad - Experiments, Bubbles and the Economy

2009 Brown Bags

Dec. 9th, Ulrich Schmidt, Ph.D., Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany - Testing Independence Conditions in the Presence of Errors and Splitting Effects

Nov. 25th, Roman Sheremeta, Ph.D. - The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks

Nov. 18th, Radhika Lunawat, Ph.D. - Reputation Effects of Disclosure: Theory and Experimental Investigation

Nov. 4th, Eric Schniter, Ph.D., of University of California, Santa Barbara - A Long Life and Life-long Learning. Watch talk

Oct. 28th, John Dickhaut, Ph.D. - A Neuronal Model of Human Economic Choice

Oct. 21st, Abel Winn, Ph.D. - Bargaining Behavior and the Tragedy of the Anti-Commons

Oct. 14th, Erik Kimbrough - Learning to Respect Property

Oct. 7th, Clas Wihlborg, Ph.D. & Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Ph.D. - Symmetric and Asymmetric Joint Liability Lending Contracts in an Adverse Selection Model

Sept. 30th, Nat Wilcox, Ph.D. - The September 2009 Risk Attitude Battery: An introduction and initial user's guide

Sept. 16th, Roman Sheremeta, Ph.D. - Reducing Efficiency through Communication in Competitive Coordination Games

Sept. 9th, Shengle Lin, Ph.D. - Information Diffusion and Underreaction in Financial Markets

Sept. 2nd, Shengle Lin, Ph.D. - Information Diffusion and Underreaction in Financial Markets

May 5th, David Porter, Ph.D. - Speculation in Markets

Apr. 28th, Nat Wilcox Ph.D.- Individual versus Social Learning in Complex Dynamic Decisions Under Risk (continued)

Apr. 21st, Nat Wilcox Ph.D.- Individual versus Social Learning in Complex Dynamic Decisions Under Risk

Apr. 14th, Mark Van Boening, Ph.D.- An Empirical Analysis of Bargaining in a Stylized Civil Litigation Setting. Watch talk

Mar. 31st, Erik Kimbrough- Emergent Specialization and Exchange in Human Subject Experiments and Agent-Based Models - Watch talk

Mar. 25th- 1pm, George Ng- Self-control and Sophistication.

Feb. 24th, Cary Deck Ph.D.- Risk Attitude and Personality. Watch talk

Feb. 17th, Shengle Lin- Inertia and Underreaction in Asset Prices. Watch talk

Feb. 10th, Tibor Machan Ph.D.- Economic Man Revisited. Watch talk

Feb. 3rd, Vernon Smith Ph.D.- Modeling Durable Assets for Experimental Study. Watch talk

Jan. 20th, Peter DeScioli Ph.D.- The Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship. Watch talk

Jan. 13th, Rimvydas Baltaduonis Ph.D.- Simple-offer vs. Complex-offer Auctions in Deregulated Electricity Markets. Watch talk