The Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences’ economics department opened a computerized research lab to study economic decision-making. Experiments are set to begin this semester once the lab ...

University research labs are very common in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and related fields. Those labs serve an important purpose for faculty and students. Students learn ...

Two Americans have been awarded this year’s Nobel in economic science for separate work that brought experimental methods to bear on economic behavior. Daniel Kahneman, of Princeton University, and ...

The Bloomberg Lab at the School of Business and Economics gives students access to a world-renowned financial, regulatory and market database that's used by virtually all of the major financial firms ...

Nearly 400 years ago Galileo performed the first recorded laboratory experiment, timing balls as they rolled down an inclined plane to test his theory of acceleration. Since that time, laboratory ...

Nobel laureate economist Vernon Smith spent three years at the University of Alaska Anchorage late in his career, and UAA has now named the centerpiece of its experimental economics program after him.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon Smith was in Australia last week to lecture at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney. In addition to his academic obligations, he caused a minor ...