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May 10, Roman Sheremeta - Evacuation Behavior: Lessons for and From the War in Ukraine

April 26, Thomas Rietz - Peering into the Black Box: Trader Strategies in the Iowa Electronic Markets

April 19, Anujit Chakraborty - Interpersonal Uncertainty as the Origin of Differences in Moral Behavior

April 12, Gale Pooley - Superabundance

March 12, Alessandra Cassar - It Makes a Village: Child Care and Prosociality

Feb. 16, Lijia Wei - Endogenous AI-tocracy

Nov. 3, 2023, David Dickinson - Dark versus light personality types and moral choice

October 6, 2023, Chad Kendall - Casual Narratives

May 5, 2023, Frank Li - Jump Starting the AI Engine: The Complementary Role of Data and Management Practices

April 28, 2023, Leeat Yariv - The Dynamics of Networks and Homophily

April 21, 2023, Sebastien Pouget - Who benefits from the bond greenium?

March 10, 2023, Yan Huang - Algorithmic Lending, Competition, and Strategic Information Disclosure

March 3, 2023, Ravi Bapna - Design and Evaluation of New Product Category Recommendations: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

February 17, 2023, Christian Konig - Nobel and novice: Author prominence affects peer review

February 10, 2023, Anthony Dukes - Marketing at the Edge of Law: The Case of Vertical Restraints

February 3, 2023, Anjana Susarla - AI for Social Good: A Human-in-the-Loop Augmented Intelligence Video Understandability Assessment to Promote Health Literacy

November 18, 2022, Dokyun Lee - InnoVAE: Generative AI for Understanding Patents and Innovation

November 11, 2022, Shaun Hargreaves - Non-selfish behaviour: Are social preferences or social norms revealed in distribution decisions?

October 28, 2022, Chew Soo Hong - Attention Theory

October 21, 2022, Hemant Bhargava - The Creator Economy: Managing Ecosystem Supply, Revenue Sharing, and Platform Design

Fending off Critics of Platform Power with Differential Revenue Sharing: Doing Well by Doing Good?

October 14, 2022, Benjamin Bushong - Heterogeneous Tastes and Social (Mis)Learning

September 23, 2022, Jeffrey Hu - Can Your Toothpaste Shopping Predict Mutual Funds Purchasing? - Transferring Knowledge from Consumer Goods to Financial Products via Machine Learning

September 9, 2022, Shachar Kariv - Ever Since Allais

April 29, 2022, Hyunjin Kim - Decision Authority and the Return

April 22, 2022, Michael Price - The Nature of Excess: Using Randomization to Understand How Markets Equilibrate; Appendix

April 15, 2022, Shabnam Mousavi - Physical Laws and Human Behavior: A Three-Tier Framework. Paper 1; Paper 2

April 8, 2022, Anne van den Nouweland - Sharing the cost of a public good

April 1, 2022, Steeve Mongrain - Tax Competition in Presence of Profit Shifting

Feb. 22, 2022, Anastasia Semykina - Estimating Heterogeneous Effects in Static Binary Response Panel Data Models 

Feb. 15, 2022, Dmitry Ryvkin - To fight or to give up? Dynamic contests with a deadline

Feb. 07, 2022, Olivier Armantier - Endogenous Reference Price Auctions for a Diverse Set of Commodities: An Experimental Analysis; Paper two 

Dec. 3, 2021, Markus Fitza - PLAY IT AGAIN SAM: EXAMINING PERFORMANCE PERSISTENCE OF CEOS ACROSS FIRMS

Nov. 02, 2021, John Wooders - Allocating Positions Fairly: Auctions and Shapley Value

Oct. 15, 2021, Sarah Bana - job2vec: Using Language Models to Understand Wage Premia - Watch lecture

Sept. 24, 2021, Jui Ramaprasad - Impact of Leadership (S)election on Contribution Behavior in Online Communities

Mar. 13, 2020, Kai Li, Ph.D. - How Do Mergers and Acquisitions Foster Corporate Innovation? Inventor-level Evidence? - Watch lecture

Mar. 6, 2020, James Robinson, Ph.D. - The Economic Effects of Enclosing the English Commons - Watch lecture

Feb. 28, 2020, David Solomon, Ph.D. - The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods - Watch lecture

Feb. 21, 2020, Giorgio Coricelli, Ph.D. - Strategic Sophistication: Attention, Intelligence and Consistency - Watch lecture

Feb. 14, 2020, Shawn Thomas, Ph.D. - Supply Network Linkages and CEO Compensation Contracts - Watch lecture

Feb. 7, 2020, Connie Pechmann, Ph.D. - Perceived Concerns versus Actual Benefits of Demographic Self-Disclosure in Online Support Groups - Watch lecture

Dec. 6, 2019, Marco Casari, Ph.D. - Governing Climate Engineering: Insights from a Public "Good or Bad” Experiment - Watch lecture

Nov. 22, 2019, Daniel Rock, Ph.D. - Engineering Value: The Returns to Technological Talent and Investments in Artificial Intelligence

Nov. 15, 2019, David Freeman, Ph.D. - Revealing Choice Bracketing - Watch lecture

Nov. 8, 2019, Edward Van Wesep, Ph.D. - On the Magnification of Small Biases in Decision-Making - Watch lecture

Nov. 1, 2019, Juan Carrillo, Ph.D. - Money in the Schoolyard: Young Children Use Commodities as an Indirect Medium of Exchange - Watch lecture

Oct. 25, 2019, Luba Petersen, Ph.D. - Escaping Secular Stagnation with Unconventional Monetary Policy - Watch lecture

Oct. 18, 2019, Tracy Liu, Ph.D. - Group Identity and Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games - Watch lecture

Oct. 11, 2019, Imke Reimers, Ph.D. - Digitization and Product Discovery: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings - Watch lecture

Sep. 27, 2019, Isaac Hacamo, Ph.D. - Gaining the (Over)Confidence to Start your Business - Watch lecture

Sep. 20, 2019, Joshua Tasoff, Ph.D. - Supervised Machine Learning for Eliciting Individual Reservation Values - Watch lecture

Aug. 30, 2019, Christian Ewerhart, Ph.D. - Social Preference and Group Identity in the Financial Cooperative - Watch lecture

May 10, 2019, Neil Pearson, Ph.D. - Evidence about Bubble Mechanisms: Precipitating Event, Feedback Trading, and Social Contagion - Watch lecture 

May 3, 2019, Melissa Thomasson, Ph.D. - Shut Down and Shut Out: Women Physicians in the Era of Medical Education Reform - Watch lecture

Apr. 26, 2019, James Holland, Ph.D. - Distortions and Anomalies: Can Evolutionary Theory Bring Order to Human Decision-Making? - Watch lecture

Apr. 19, 2019, Ramzi Suleiman, Ph.D. - Relativizing Newtonian Dynamics as Pathway to a Theory of Everything - Watch lecture

Apr. 12, 2019, Shane Macfarlan, Ph.D. - Managing Life in a Desert: Choyero Cultural Dynamics and Sustainability Challenges in Baja California Sur, Mexico - Watch lecture

Apr. 5, 2019, Robert Sugden, Ph.D. - Trust and mutual benefit in markets - Watch lecture

Mar. 15, 2019, Wally Thurman, Ph.D. - Combing the Landscape: An Economic History of Migratory Beekeeping in the United States - Watch lecture

Mar. 8, 2019, Christine Parlour, Ph.D. - Consumers as Financiers: Crowdfunding, Initial Coin Offerings and Consumer Surplus - Watch lecture

Mar. 1, 2019, Joaquin Gomez-Minambres, Ph.D. - Non-binding Goals in Teams: A Real Effort Coordination Experiment - Watch lecture

Feb. 22, 2019, Paul Hooper, Ph.D. - Gains to cooperation drive the evolution of egalitarianism - Watch lecture

Feb. 15, 2019, Matthew Harding, Ph.D. - Environmental and Social Benefits of Time of Use

Feb. 8, 2019, Matthew McCarter, Ph.D. - Vigilante Justice: Examining Makeup Calls in Organizations and the Behavioral Laboratory - Watch lecture

Feb. 1, 2019, Miguel Brendl, Ph.D. - Influences of Motivation on Preferences

Dec. 7, 2018, Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Ph.D. - Trading Institutions in Experimental Asset Markets: Theory and Evidence - Watch lecture

Nov. 30, 2018, Shaun Nichols, Ph.D. - Outcome-based rules, punishment, and fairness - Watch lecture

Nov. 16, 2018, Alessandra Cassar, Ph.D. - Raising Achievement Among Microentrepreneurs:  An Experimental Test of Goals, Incentives, and Support Groups in Medellin, Colombia - Watch lecture

Nov. 9, 2018, Kai Konrad, Ph.D. - Sequential Majoritarian Blotto Games - Watch lecture

Nov. 2, 2018 Simon Board, Ph.D. - An Inspection Model of Learning in Networks - Watch lecture

Oct. 26, 2018 Jonathan Stieglitz, Ph.D. - Marital violence and fertility in a relatively egalitarian high fertility population - Watch lecture

Oct. 19, 2018 John Wallis, Ph.D. -  Impersonal Rules and Relational Contracts (Also hosted by SIPEP) - Watch lecture

Oct. 12, 2018 Eli Beracha, Ph.D. -  Specialization and Institutional Investors’ Performance – Evidence from Publicly Traded Real Estate - Watch lecture

Oct. 5, 2018 Mitch Warachka, Ph.D. -  Does Finance Make Us Less Social? - Watch lecture

Sep. 28, 2018 Michael Hertzel, Ph.D. -  Speed Matters: Limited Attention and Supply-Chain Information Diffusion - Watch lecture

Sep. 21, 2018 Jeffrey Naecker, Ph.D. - When Fair Isn’t Fair: Understanding Choice Anomalies Involving Social Preferences - Watch lecture

Sept. 7, 2018 Dirk Krueger, Ph.D. - Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession - Watch lecture

Aug. 31, 2018 Thomas Hemmer, Ph.D. -  Aggregation and Convexity in the Provision of Dynamic Incentives - Watch lecture

May 4, 2018 Alessandra Cassar, Ph.D. - The Competitive Woman - Watch lecture

April 27, 2018 Dan Bernhardt, Ph.D. -  The Pied Piper of Pensioners - Watch lecture

Apr. 6, 2018 Daniel Friedman, Ph.D. - Varieties of Risk Elicitation - Watch lecture

Mar. 30, 2018 Chad Kendall, Ph.D. -  Herding and Contrarianism: A Matter of Preference? - Watch lecture

Mar. 16, 2018 Yaroslav Rosokha, Ph.D. -  The Evolution of Cooperation: The Role of Costly Strategy Adjustments - Watch lecture

Mar. 9, 2018 John Rust, Ph.D. - The Dynamics of Bertrand Price Competition with Cost-Reducing Investments - Watch lecture

Mar. 6, 2018 Matthias Sutter, Ph.D.  - Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity – A Field Experiment

Feb. 23, 2018 Arthur Robson, Ph.D. - Adaptive Hedonic Utility - Watch lecture

Feb. 9, 2018 Vojtech Zika - Does Competition Trigger and Boost Overconfidence? - Watch lecture

Feb. 2, 2018 Giuseppe Lopomo, Ph.D  -  Budget-Constrained Procurement - Watch lecture

Dec. 8, 2017 Jason Shachat, Ph.D. - Market frictions and the anatomy of an arbitrage - Watch lecture

Dec. 1, 2017 Henrik Cronqvist, Ph.D. - In the Red: The Effects of Color on Investment Behavior - Watch lecture

Nov. 17, 2017 Jim Marrone, Ph.D. -  Linguistic and Cultural Assimilation as a Human Capital Process - Watch lecture

Nov. 10, 2017 Hyunseok Lee, Ph.D. -  Understanding and Managing Customer-Induced Negative Externalities in Congested Self-Service Environments - Watch lecture

Nov. 3, 2017 Sevgi Yuksel, Ph.D. - Biases Over Biased Information Structures: Confirmation, Contradiction and Certainty Seeking Behavior in the Laboratory

Oct. 27, 2017 Eric Schliesser, Ph.D. -  Rawls and the Economists on The Displacement of Knightian Uncertainty in Mathematical Economics 

Oct. 20, 2017 Sebastien Pouget, Ph.D. - The Present Value Relation Over Six Centuries: The Case of the Bazacle Company - Watch lecture

Oct. 6, 2017 Robin Hanson, Ph.D. - The Elephant in the Brain

Sept. 29, 2017 Antonio Espn, Ph.D. - Economic preferences 2.0: Connecting competition, cooperation and inter-temporal preferences - Watch lecture

Sept. 22, 2017 Matthew McCarter, Ph.D. - Let’s make up! A study of the dynamics of make-up calls by umpires in Major League Baseball - Watch lecture

Sept. 15, 2017 Ted Bergstrom, Ph.D. -  When Was Coase Right? - Watch lecture

Sept. 8, 2017 Rob Gasaway - Constitutional Law-A Portal to Modernity - Watch lecture

Sept. 1, 2017 Florian Morath, Ph.D. -  Escalation in dynamic conflict: On beliefs and selection

May 12, 2017 Ron Harstad, Ph.D. - Designing Experimental Inference from Revealed Preference - Watch lecture 

Apr. 28, 2017 Thor Koeppl, Ph.D. - The Economics of Cryptocurrency- Bitcoin and Beyond - Watch lecture

Apr. 21, 2017 Charles Sprenger, Ph.D. - Procrastination in the Field: Evidence from Tax Filing

Apr. 14, 2017 Piotr Evdokimov, Ph.D. - Myopic Loss Aversion or Randomness in Choice? An Experimental Investigation - Watch lecture

Apr. 7, 2017 Andrew Smyth, Ph.D. - Contests under the shadow of the future - Watch lecture

Mar. 31, 2017 Ross Starr, Ph.D. - Responding to Martin Hellwig’s Presidential Address:  Smith, Knapp, Menger, Hicks, and Tobin Deal with the Hahn Problem - Watch lecture

Mar. 10, 2017 Rod Garratt, Ph.D. - Let Me, or Let George? Motives of Competing Altruists - Watch lecture

Mar. 3, 2017 John Patton, Ph.D. - Culture Does Not Account for Variation in Ultimatum Game Behavior in the Conambo River Valley

Feb. 10, 2017 Charles Calomiris, Ph.D. -  How News and Its Context Drive Risk and Returns Around the World - Watch lecture

Dec. 9, 2016  Florian Artinger, Ph.D. - Heuristic Pricing In An Uncertain Market: Ecological And Constructivist Rationality

Nov. 11, 2016 Praveen Kujal, Ph.D. - Lack of trust, demand for institutions and pro-social behaviour: some experimental evidence - Watch lecture

Nov. 4, 2016 Hong Qu, Ph.D. - How Do Public Forecasts Affect Price Efficiency and Welfare Allocations? The Role of Exogenous Disclosure and Endogenous Prices in Empowering Uniformed Traders - Watch lecture

Oct 14, 2016 Matthew McCarter, Ph.D. - The rational irrationality of auction fever: Evidence from Amazon.com gift cards, consumer products on eBay, and the behavioral laboratory - Watch lecture

Oct. 7, 2016 Roman Sheremeta, Ph.D. - Status and Economic Rents: Experimental Evidence on the Matthew Effect - Watch lecture

Sept. 16, 2016 Matthias Stefan, Ph.D. - Experimental studies on moral behavior in markets? Paper 1, Paper 2 - Watch lecture

May 13, 2016 Catherine Tucker, Ph.D. - Privacy Protection, Personalized Medicine and Genetic Testing - Watch lecture

May 6, 2016 Luis Carlos Corchon, Ph.D. - Relinquishing Power, Exploitation and Political Unemployment in Democratic Organizations - Watch lecture

Apr. 29, 2016 John Duffy, Ph.D. - Adoption of a New Payment Method: Theory and Experimental Evidence - Watch lecture

Apr. 22, 2016 Alistair Wilson, Ph.D. - Information Transmission and the Shadow of the Future: An Experiment on Reputation, Rents and Deception - Watch lecture

Apr. 15, 2016 Boris Maciejovsky, Ph.D - Information Aggregation in Organizations - Watch lecture

Apr. 8, 2016 David Dickinson, Ph.D. - Sleep restriction and time-of-day effects on simple social interaction - Watch lecture

Apr. 1, 2016 Adam Fremeth, Ph.D. - Corporate Political Strategy in Contested Regulatory Environments: Evidence from the Electric Utility Sector - Watch lecture

Mar. 18, 2016 Matt McCarter, Ph.D. - It’s a Trap! Theory Triangulation of Self-Restraint and Population Growth in the 18 ^th Century Swedish Commons

Mar. 11, 2016 Nageeb Ali, Ph.D. -  Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy - Watch lecture

Mar 2, 2016 Jeanine Miklos-Thal, Ph.D.  - Making Sense of Restrictions on Online Sales - Watch lecture

Feb. 26, 2016 Katya Sherstyuk, Ph.D. - Bidding with money or action plans? Asset allocation under strategic uncertainty

Feb. 24, 2016 Marco Castillo, Ph.D. - Children’s rationality, risk attitudes and misbehavior

Feb. 19, 2016 Peter Kuhn, Ph.D. - When and How are People ‘Behavioral’? Evidence from Intertemporal Choices

Feb. 12, 2016 Gustavo Manso, Ph.D. - Incentives and Innovation - Watch lecture

Feb. 5, 2016 Juergen Huber, Ph.D. - Do Economics Lab Experiments Replicate Predictably? - Watch lecture

Dec. 4, 2015 Alberto Mingardi, Ph.D. - Progress and Knowledge in Thomas Hodgskin - Watch lecture

Nov. 20, 2015 Joseph Gerakos, Ph.D. - Asset Manager Funds - Watch lecture

Nov. 13, 2015 Roman Sheremeta, Ph.D. -  Status and the Demand for Visible Goods: Experimental Evidence on Conspicuous Consumption - Watch lecture

Oct. 30, 2015 Roberto Weber, Ph.D. - The Spillover Effect of Institutions on Cooperative Norms, Preferences, and Beliefs - Watch lecture

Oct. 9, 2015 Ian Larkin, Ph.D. - Motivational Spillovers from Awards: Crowding Out in a Multitasking Environment - Watch lecture

Sept. 25, 2015 Adam Sanjurjo, Ph.D. - Surprised by the Gambler´s and Hot Hand Fallacies? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers - Watch lecture

Sept. 18, 2015 Brian Roberson, Ph.D. - Estimating the Gains from Liberalizing Services Trade: The Case of Passenger Aviation - Watch lecture

Apr. 24, 2015 David Rojo Arjona, Ph.D. - Focal points in strategic interactions: theory and evidence - Watch lecture

Apr. 17, 2015 Marco Janssen, Ph.D. - The role of information in governing social-ecological systems - Watch lecture

Apr. 8, 2015 Charles Noussair, Ph.D. - Emotional State and Market Behavior - Watch lecture

Apr. 3, 2015 Diego Aycinena, Ph.D. - Control of household finances, risk and discounting for recipients of conditional cash transfers - Watch lecture

Mar. 20, 2015 John Horton, Ph.D. - Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment

Mar. 13, 2015 Charles Thomas, Ph.D. - A New Perspective on Entry in Horizontal Merger Analysis - Watch lecture

Mar. 6, 2015 Guillaume Frechette, Ph.D. - Strategy Choice In The Infinitely Repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma - Watch lecture

Feb. 27, 2015 Marina Agranov, Ph.D. - Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: A Laboratory Study - Watch lecture

Feb. 20, 2015 Jim Murphy, Ph.D. - Using Targeted Messages to Get People to Pick, Click, Give: A Natural Field Experiment in the State of Alaska - Watch lecture

Feb. 13, 2015 Marta Serra Garcia, Ph.D. - Motivated Self-Deception, Identity and Unethical Behavior - Watch lecture

Dec. 12, 2014 Matthew Selove, Ph.D. - A Dynamic Model of Competitive Entry Response - Watch lecture

Dec. 5, 2014 Gabriel Rossman, Ph.D. - Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange - Watch lecture

Nov. 21, 2014 Matthew McCarter, Ph.D. - Who’s Holding Out? An Experimental Study of the Benefits and Burdens of Eminent Domain - Watch lecture

Nov. 7, 2014 Monica Capra, Ph.D. - The Neurobiology of Pre-play Communication - Watch lecture

Oct. 31, 2014 Nathan Fong, Ph.D. - The Robustness of Anchoring Effects in Product Valuations - Watch lecture

Oct. 24, 2014 Devin Shanthikumar, Ph.D. - CEO Incentives and Product Innovation: Insights from Trademarks - Watch lecture

Oct. 17, 2014 Jennifer Arlen, Ph.D. - Does the Endowment Effect Justify Legal Intervention? The Debiasing Effect of Institution - Watch lecture

Oct. 3, 2014 Roman Sheremeta, Ph.D. - Behavior in Contests - Watch lecture

Sept. 19, 2014 Michael Seiler, Ph.D. - The Role of Prospect Theory in the Perceived Moral Reprehensibility of Strategic Mortgage Default - Watch lecture

Sept. 12, 2014 David Skarbek, Ph.D. - The Social Order of the Underworld - Watch lecture

Sept. 5, 2014 Ryan Opera, Ph.D. - Testing the Theory of Continuous Time Games - Watch lecture

May 9, 2014 Leeat Yariv, Ph.D. - Collusion through Communication in Auctions - Watch lecture

May 12, 2014 Don Ross, Ph.D - Psychological versus economic models of bounded rationality - Watch lecture

May 2, 2014 Effrosyni Faye Diamantoudi, Ph.D. - Subsidies, emissions, and social welfare in general equilibrium with imperfect competition - Watch lecture

Apr. 25, 2014 Greg Waymire, Ph.D. - Self-Dealing and its Concealment: Evidence from the Lab & the Field - Watch lecture

Apr. 28, 2014 Jeffrey Carpenter, Ph.D. - Motivating Agents: How much does the mission matter? - Watch lecture

Apr. 18, 2014 Tim Salmon, Ph.D. - Sabotage vs Discouragement: Which Dominates Post Promotion Tournament Behavior? - Watch lecture

Apr. 11, 2014 Paola Mallucci, Ph.D. - Fairness Ideals in Distribution Channels - Watch lecture

Mar. 17, 2014 Stephen Burks, Ph.D - Watch lecture

Mar. 14, 2014 Joaquin Gomez Minambres, Ph.D. - Goal Setting and Monetary Incentives: When Large Stakes Are Not Enough - Watch lecture

Mar. 7, 2014 Fabrice Lumineau, Ph.D. - Third Parties and Contract Design: The Case of Contracts for Technology Transfer - Watch lecture

Feb. 28, 2014 David Dickinson, Ph.D. - The impact of glucose on Bayesian v. heuristic-based decision making

Feb. 21, 2014 David Leinweber, Ph.D. - Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines, & Wired Markets - Watch lecture

Feb. 7, 2014 Robert Sugden, Ph.D. - Efficiency, Equality and Labeling: An Experimental Investigation of Focal Points in Explicit Bargaining - Watch lecture

Dec. 06, 2013 Jack Stecher, Ph.D. -Description and Experience Based Decision Making:  An Experimental and Structural Estimation Approach to the Decision-Experience Gap

Nov. 22, 2013 Matt McCarter, Ph.D. - The size of social dilemma science - Watch lecture

Nov. 15, 2013 Juan Carrillo, Ph.D. - Value computation and value modulation: a dual-process theory of self-control - Watch lecture

Oct. 25, 2013 William Gates, Ph.D. -  Mechanism Design for Military Force Management - Watch lecture

Oct. 11, 2013 David Malueg, Ph.D.  - The Best-Shot All-Pay (Group) Auction with Complete Information - Watch lecture

Sept. 6, 2013 Michel Regenwetter, Ph.D. - Random Preference and Distribution-free Random Utility - There are two papers for this lecture:  Paper one.  Paper two. - Watch lecture

May 10, 2013 Kimberly Wade-Benzoni, Ph.D. - The Egoism and Altruism of Intergenerational Behavior - Watch lecture

Apr. 19, 2013 Raymond Deneckere, Ph.D. - Multi-Dimensional Screening: A Solution to a Class of Problems- Watch lecture

Apr. 12, 2013 Caroline Thomas, Ph.D. - N-Dimensional Colonel Blotto Game with Asymmetric Battlefield Values - Watch lecture

Apr. 5, 2013 David Cooper, Ph.D. - Ambiguity in Performance Pay: An Online Experiment - Watch lecture

Mar. 22, 2013 Cary Deck, Ph.D. - Contests with Multiple Targets - Watch lecture

Mar. 15, 2013 John Roberts, Ph.D. - Does Working From Home work?  Evidence From a Chinese Experiment - Watch lecture

Mar. 8, 2013 Tony Kwasnica, Ph.D. - A Laboratory Comparison of Auctions and Sequential Mechanisms - Watch lecture

Feb. 22, 2013 Jordi Brandts Bernad, Ph.D. - Let’s talk: How communication affects contract design.

Feb. 1, 2013 Ron Siegel, Ph.D. – Large Contests - Watch lecture

Dec. 7, 2012 Quazi Shahriar, Ph.D. - When Does Cheap-Talk (Fail to) Increase Efficient Coordination? - Watch lecture

Nov. 9, 2012 Uri Gneezy, Ph.D. - Incentives and Behavior Change

Nov. 2, 2012 Glenn Harrison, Ph.D.  - Asset Integration and Attitudes to Risk - Watch lecture

Oct. 26, 2012 Michael Baye, Ph.D. -  Product Search Online - Watch lecture

Oct. 19, 2012 John Morgan, Ph.D. - On the Merits of Meritocracy - Watch lecture

Oct. 12, 2012 Jonathan Meer, Ph.D. - An Experimental Analysis of Charitable Donations of Time and Money - Watch lecture

Oct. 5, 2012 Joshua Tasoff, Ph.D. - Exponential-Growth Bias and Lifecycle Consumption - Watch lecture

Sept. 28, 2012 Charles Thomas, Ph.D. - An Alternating-Offers Model of Multilateral Negotiations - Watch lecture

Sept. 21, 2012 David Stephens, Ph.D. - The Natural History of Acquisition: Evolution, foraging, impulsiveness and behavioral plasticity. Further reading for this lecture. - Watch lecture

Sept. 7, 2012 Gary Charness, Ph.D. – Experimental Games on Networks - Watch lecture

Aug. 31, 2012 Yan Chen, Ph.D. - Crowdsourcing with All-pay Auctions:  a Field Experiment on Taskcn - Watch lecture

May 4, 2012 Tim Groseclose, Ph.D. - Signaling Games and Media. Watch lecture

Apr. 20, 2012 Shawn Kantor, Ph.D. - Do Research Universities Generate Local Economic Growth? - Watch lecture

Apr. 13, 2012 Sean Crockett, Ph.D. - Do Reference Dependent Preferences Really Matter? - Watch lecture

Mar. 23, 2012 Max Krasnow, Ph.D. - Evolution of direct reciprocity under uncertainty can explain human generosity in one-shot encounters. Watch lecture

Mar. 16, 2012 Alex Brown, Ph.D. - Experimental Analysis of Envy-Free Auctions - Watch Lecture

Mar. 9, 2012 Keith Murnighan, Ph.D. - On Greed - Watch Lecture

Mar. 2, 2012 Jeff Smith, Ph.D. - Remarks on Field Experiments in Labor Economics and the Economics of Education

Feb. 24, 2012 John Tooby, Ph.D. - The Welfare Tradeoff Architecture, Cooperation, and Social Emotions - For further reading please see: Formidability and the logic of human anger and The architecture of human kin detection.

Feb. 17, 2012 Stefan Szymanski, Ph.D. - Contests on a Line 

Feb. 10, 2012 Brian Roberson, Ph.D. - Dynamic Special Interest Politics with Relational Contracts 

Feb. 3, 2012 Alexandra Rosati - Evolutionary economics: Mapping decision-making traits in chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans 

Dec. 9, 2011 Diego Aycinena Abascal, Ph.D. - Auctions with Endogenous Participation 

Dec. 2, 2011 John Tomasi, Ph.D. - Democratic Legitimacy and Economic Liberty

Nov. 18, 2011 Hersh Shefrin, Ph.D. - Systemic Risk and Sentiment 

Nov. 11, 2011 Mark M. Bykowsky, Ph.D. - A Market-based Approach to Establishing Licensing Rules: Licensed Versus Unlicensed Use of Spectrum Federal Communications Commission - please watch this video before lecture 

Nov. 4, 2011 Melissa Thomasson, Ph.D.  - Saving Babies: The Contribution of Sheppard-Towner to the Decline in Infant Mortality in the 1920s 

Oct. 28, 2011 Gabriele Camera, Ph.D.-  The coordination value of monetary exchange: Experimental evidence.

Oct. 21, 2011 Parker Ballinger, Ph.D. - Individual versus Social Learning: The Importance of Demonstrability 

Oct. 7, 2011 David Budescu, Ph.D. - Taking Wason to the market:  Studies of the Wason selection task in competitive markets 

Sept. 16, 2011 Price Fishback, Ph.D. - Comparisons Across Time and Space of Poverty and Social Insurance Programs. 

Sept. 9, 2011 Anne Villamil, Ph.D. - The Effects of Credit Subsidies on Development 

Sept. 1, 2011 Gad Saad, Ph.D. –  The Consuming Instinct 

Apr. 29, 2011 Donald Shoup - The High Cost of Free Parking

Apr. 8, 2011 Kevin McCabe, Ph.D. – Experiments on the role of third parties on redistribution decisions. For further reading please see: Shared Experience and Third-Party Decisions: A Laboratory Result, Legitimacy in the lab – The separate and joint effects of earned roles and earned endowments in third-party redistribution, Whose money is it anyway? Ingroups and distributive behavior. 

Apr. 1, 2011 Michael Gurven, Ph.D. - Experimental investigation of fairness and altruism norms in small-scale societies - Further reading: Culture sometimes matters: Intra-cultural variation in pro-social behavior among Tsimane Amerindians and Collective Action in Action: Prosocial Behavior in and out of the Laboratory

Mar. 25, 2011 Anya C. Samak (Savikhin), Ph.D. - Conducting Field Experiments with Preschool-Aged Children: New Approaches 

Mar. 11, 2011 Terry Anderson, Ph.D. -"I Own This Place”: Property Rights for Native Americans. 

Mar. 4, 2011 Blake LeBaron, Ph.D. - Heterogeneous Gain Learning and the Dynamics of Asset Prices

Feb. 18, 2011 Catherine Eckel, Ph.D. - Giving to Government: Voluntary Taxation in the Lab

Feb. 11, 2011 Jim Engle-Warnick, Ph.D. - Social Learning and Risk and Ambiguity Preferences

Feb. 4, 2011 Peter Boettke, Ph.D. - Polycentrism and Gargantua: Which Model Best Provides Public Education? 

Dec. 10, 2010 Deirdre McCloskey, Ph.D. – Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World, and Why a Change in Talk Does

Nov. 5, 2010 James Choi, Ph.D. – Religious Identity and Economic Behavior

Oct. 29, 2010 Svetlana Pevnitskaya, Ph.D. - The Effect of Access to Clean Technology on Pollution Reduction: an Experiment. 

Oct. 22, 2010 Craig Yirush, Ph.D. – Indigenous Rights in Early Modern Perspective. 

Oct. 15, 2010 John Duffy, Ph.D. – A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach to Asset Pricing Experiments. 

Oct. 5, 2010 Andreas Wilke, Ph.D. - Past and Present Environments: The Evolution of Decision Making

Sept. 24, 2010 David Schmidtz, Ph.D. - What is Nonideal Theory?

Sept. 10, 2010 Charles Thomas, Ph.D. - Equilibrium Behavior in a Model of Multilateral Negotiations 

May 7, 2010 Jim Gentle, Ph.D. - The Contribution of Jumps to the Volatility of Asset Prices 

Apr. 23, 2010 Robert Kurzban Ph.D. -  Adaptationist Morality

Apr. 16, 2010 Menas Kafatos - Climate Change, Facts and Hype: Hazards and Impacts and What does the Future hold?

Apr. 9, 2010 Gregory Waymire, Ph.D. - Can Trust Be Sustained in an Uncertain World When Individuals Have Machiavellian Intelligence?

Mar. 26, 2010 John Rust, Ph.D. - The Flat Rental Puzzle

Mar. 19, 2010 Jason Aimone, Ph.D. - Endogenous Group Formation Through Sacrificial Costs

Mar. 12, 2010 Deirdre McCloskey, Ph.D. - Linguinomics: Thoughts and Theorems about Language in the Economy

Feb. 26, 2010 Ryan Opera, Ph.D. - A Continuous Dilemma

Feb. 19, 2010 Oliver Goodenough, Ph.D. -  Strategic Mechanisms, Functional Modeling and Experimental Design in Neurolaw. 

Feb. 12, 2010 Henry Butler, Ph.D. – Are State Consumer Protection Acts Really Mini-FTC Acts?  

Feb. 5, 2010 Kevin McCabe, Ph.D.

Dec. 2, 2009 Jeffrey Tollaksen, Ph.D. - New Ideas About the Nature of Time 

Nov. 13, 2009 Sarah F. Brosnan, Ph.D. - An Evolutionary Perspective on the Perception and Utilization of Property. 

Nov. 6, 2009 James Konow Ph.D. – Just Luck:  An Experimental Study of Risk Taking and Fairness

Oct. 30, 2009 Jerome Busemeyer Ph.D. - A Computational Model of the Attention Process Used to Generate Decision Weights. 

Oct. 26, 2009 Harold Demsetz - Externalities and Social Cost

Oct. 23, 2009 Dan Kovenock Ph.D. –   The Optimal Defense of Networks of Targets. 

Oct. 9, 2009 Monica Smith, Ph.D. - A cognitive History of Material Objects:  The Archaeology of Possession, Inheritance, and Value . 

Sept. 25, 2009 Bart J. Wilson, Ph.D. - The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture

Sept. 18, 2009 Thomas W. Hazlett, Ph.D.  – Tragedy TV: Rights Fragmentation and the Junk Band Problem . 

May 20 , 2009 Gerd Gigerenzer Ph.D. - Homo Heuristicus: Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences. 

May 7, 2009 Matt Ridley Ph.D. - The Role of Exchange and Specialization in Human Prosperity.

Apr. 24, 2009 Dan Bogart Ph.D. - Parliament and the Adaptability of Property Rights:  A case study of Estate Acts and the London Property Market. 

Apr. 17, 2009 Jasmina Arifovic Ph.D. - A Behavioral Model for Mechanism Design: Individual Evolutionary Learning. 

Apr. 3, 2009 John Dickhaut Ph.D. - High Stakes Behavior with Low Payoffs: Inducing Preferences with Holt-Laury Gambles . 

Mar. 27, 2009 Arun Sood Ph.D. – Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance .  

Mar. 20, 2009 John Ledyard Ph.D. – Individual Evolutionary Learning, Other-regarding Preferences, and the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism. 

Mar. 13, 2009 Gregory Waymire Ph.D. - Transaction Records, Impersonal Exchange, and Division of Labor. 

Mar. 6, 2009 James Murphy Ph.D. – Rent Dissipation in Competitive Fisheries: An Experimental Analysis. 

Feb. 27, 2009 Amnon Rapoport Ph.D. - Coordination in Large-scale Networks under Two different Information Structures: A Laboratory Study.

Feb. 13, 2009 Elena Asparouhova Ph.D. - Cognitive Biases, Ambiguity Aversion and Asset Pricing in Financial Markets. 

Feb. 6, 2009 Cary Deck Ph.D. - Sequentially Pricing Multiple Products: Theory and Experiments. 

Jan. 16, 2009 Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Ph.D. – Market for Mortgages. 

Dec. 5, 2008 Hillard Kaplan Ph.D. - Evolution of Aging. 

Nov. 21, 2008 Michael McBride Ph.D. -  Conflict and the Shadow of the Future: An Experimental Study.   Background and theoretical basis.  

Nov. 7, 2008 Larry Iannaccone Ph.D. - Looking Backward: A Cross-National Study of Religious Trends. 

Nov. 6, 2008 Barry Chiswick Ph.D. - Why is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants? 

Oct. 31, 2008 John Dickhaut Ph.D. -  Efficient Markets and Drift: A Computational Approach. Watch lecture

Oct. 24, 2008 Abel Winn Ph.D. - Framing Effects in Two-Side Clock Auctions. 

Oct. 17, 2008 Eric Schoenberg Ph.D. - Relative Wealth Concerns and Asset Bubbles: An Experimental Approach. 

Oct. 3, 2008 Peter Bossaerts Ph.D. - Exploring the Nature of "Trading Intuition"

Sept. 15, 2008 Thomas A.  Rietz Ph.D. - Product market efficiency:  The bright side of myopic, uninformed, and passive external finance