Faculty and PhD students of Texas A&M’s Department of Economics presented their research at the Economics Science Association (ESA) North American meeting in Dallas, Texas. The conference draws some of the most important researchers in economic science. This year’s plenary speaker was Iris Bohnet.

The presenters and research topics during the conference were (in session order):

• Daniel Stephenson, “Coordination and Evolutionary Stability in Continuous-Time Attacker Defender Games”
• Ada Kovaliukaite, “Does an Individual Have Diverse Beliefs? An Experimental Investigation”
• Alexander Brown, “Institutional Rules and Oil Field Unitization”
• Billur Aksoy, “Measuring Trust: A Reinvestigation”
• Zoey Zhengzheng Wang, “Group Size and the Effectiveness of Punishment in Public Goods Games”
• Daniel Fragiadakis, ”A Cross-Game Analysis of Behavioral Game Theory Types”
• Noah Bacine, “An Investigation of Feedback: When it’s enough and when it’s too much”
• Haley Harwell, “Did the Ice Bucket Challenge Drain the Philanthropic Reservoir?: An Investigation Using A Real-Donation Lab Experiment”

On Thursday, October 22, 2015, a workshop was held in honor of Dr. John Van Huyck at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, TX. Dr. Van Huyck passed away in 2014.

More than 60 people from all over the country were in attendance. Larry Samuelson of Yale University delivered the plenary address on “The State of Game Theory.” The program consisted of 12 papers and the presenters included many of Dr. Van Huyck’s friends, colleagues, and students. Two of the papers listed Dr. Van Huyck as a coauthor.

The conference was organized by Catherine Eckel of Texas A&M University and Yan Chen of the University of Michigan. They extend a special thank you to Mr. Al Van Huyck, the father of Dr. Van Huyck, for sponsoring the event. Thanks also to the 12 presenters and to Tim Salmon of SMU for his assistance.

The program is here [wp-svg-icons icon=”file-pdf” wrap=”i”]

For more details on Dr. Van Huyck, please click here.