Workshop in Honor of Elizabeth Hoffman, today at University of Iowa

Betsy Hoffman is celebrated in Iowa today.

Workshop in Honor of Elizabeth Hoffman Sponsored by the Clarence Tow Fund. Organizers: Yan Chen, David J. Cooper, Laura Razzolini, and Lise Vesterlund, The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, Department of Economics, June 7th, 2024

Here is the tribute on the website (and below that is the program of the conference):

"Elizabeth Hoffman, Professor of Economics, Iowa State University, President Emerita, University of Colorado,Systems

"Elizabeth Hoffman has enjoyed an extraordinary career as a researcher, mentor, and administrator. She began her career as a historian, earning a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida. Dr. Hoffman then returned to graduate school in economics, earning her PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1979. This led to a distinguished career as an economics professor, working at Northwestern, Purdue, Wyoming, and Arizona.

"Dr. Hoffman’s research featured seminal contributions to experimental economics, law and economics, and cliometrics. The experiments that Dr. Hoffman conducted with Kevin McCabe, Keith Shachat, and Vernon Smith using double blind techniques to socially isolate subjects remain some of the most influential work ever conducted on other-regarding preferences, fundamentally changing how economists conceptualize other-regarding preferences. Her work with Matt Spitzer used insights from economic experiments to address fundamental issue in law and economics.

"In the late 90s, Dr. Hoffman began her work mentoring two groups of junior women economists through programs sponsored by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. This mentoring work was enormously influential, helping launch the careers of many prominent women economists (Bogan, Chen, Croson, Malmendier, Razzolini, Solnick, Vesterlund, and Washington). In large part due to her work as a mentor, Dr. Hoffman was awarded the American Economic Association’s 2010 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award for improving the status of women in the economics profession. It is a sign of Dr. Hoffman’s vast influence that three of her mentees have also won this award. Dr. Hoffman has served the profession in many other ways beyond mentorship. She served as the fourth president (and first woman president) of the Economic Science Association, the primary professional organization for experimental economics. She also served as a founding trustee for the Cliometric Society and the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics.

"Midway through her career, Dr. Hoffman shifted to a focus on administration. She served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Iowa State (1993 – 1997), Provost at the University of Illinois, Chicago (1997 – 2000), President at the University of Colorado (2000 – 2005), and Provost at Iowa State (2005 – 2012). Since stepping down as provost, Dr. Hoffman has continued her productive career as a professor, producing numerous research articles and advising large numbers of PhD students."

Here's the program:

8:30 am – 9:00 am Welcomes and Introductions

Opening Remarks: David J. Cooper Tippie and Rollins Chair in Economics Henry B. Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa

9:00 am – 10:00 am Speaker: Catherine Eckel University Distinguished Professor in Dept of Economics Texas A&M University Paper Title: Dictator Games

10:00 am – 10:20 am Coffee Break

10:20 am – 10:50 am Speaker: Tony Kwasnica  Rob and Hope Brim Eminent Scholar Chair Florida State University Paper Title: Pennies from Heaven? Costly vs Free Bids in Penny Auctions

10:50 am – 11:20 am Speaker: Tanya Rosenblatt  Professor of Information and Economics University of Michigan  Paper Title: I've Got News for You!

11:20 am – 11:30 am Break

11:30 am – 12:00 pm Speaker: Yuanxiang Li Assistant Professor, Information Systems & Operations Management Soffolk University Paper Title: Designing an incentive mechanism for information security policy compliance: An experiment

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Speaker: Yan Chen  Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor of Information School of Information University of Michigan  Paper Title: Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Speaker: Tom Rietz  Soumyo Sarkar Professor in Finance  Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa  Paper Title: Peering into the Black Box: Trader Strategies in the Iowa Electronic Markets

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Speaker: Laura Razzolini  Department Head of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies Professor of Economics Culverhouse College of Business, University of Alabama Paper Title: What have I learned from the Dictator Game over the years

2:30 pm – 2:40 pm Break

2:40 pm – 3:10 pm Speaker: Lise Vesterlund  Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics  University of Pittsburgh Paper Title: The Effect of Experimenter-Demand on Inference Across Populations

3:10 pm – 3:40 pm Speaker: Kevin McCabe Professor of Economics and Law  George Mason University Paper Title: An agent-based model of path-dependent market formation

3:40 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee Break

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Speaker: Tom Palfrey Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science California Institute of Technology  Paper Title: Team Equilibrium: A General Theory of Team Games with an Application to Crisis Bargaining

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Cocktail Hour and Betsy Hoffman Tribute Video

(The website also contains bios of each of the speakers).

HT: thanks to David Cooper for the link...