- Expose and involve students in the foundations of economic analysis
- Introduce students to economics as an observational science
- Demonstrate its effectiveness as an important tool to test economic theories
- Inform the economic debate to policy questions
- Put knowledge to work on building solutions to specific economic problems with team involvement
- Offer new topics, problems, and experiments about human behavior
- Illustrate the workings of economic principles in market institutions and social exchange
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Question: What Does the Daily Schedule Look Like?
Answer:
- 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day
- One hour lunch
- Morning and afternoon breaks
- Students are expected to attend all five days.
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Question: What is the Deadline for application?
Answer: All applications received by April 1, 2008 will receive consideration. After April 1,applications will be considered as space allows.
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Question: What kinds of Topics will Participants Encounter at the Workshop?
Answer:
- Supply and demand and the meaning of "cost"
- Personal and impersonal exchange
- Game theory (normal and extensive form)
- Natural resource and other environmental problems
- ssues in deregulating markets: electric power
- Asset (stock) markets
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Question: What Will I Do at the Experimental Economics Summer Workshop?
Answer:
- Actively participate in the decision making in markets and the learning process
- Engage and problem-solve with others
- Learn how to apply the scientific method to economic behavior
- Discuss real-world policy questions
- Discover that economics can be fun in a fast-paced course on the science of human behavior and choice
- Earn cash daily from your experiment decisions
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Question: What will it Cost? What do Scholarships Cover?
Answer:
- Upon acceptance, there is a $50 laboratory fee to participate in the workshop.
- Fellowships cover materials and lunch on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Question: Where will the Workshops be Held?
Answer: George Mason University, Arlington Campus
3330 Washington Blvd., Suite 400R,
Arlington, VA 22201
A short walk fromthe Virginia Square Orange Line Metro stop.
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Question: Who Should Apply?
Answer:
- Rising high school juniors and seniors
- Graduating high school seniors
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Question: Why Would my Parent(s) be Pleased I Enrolled?
Answer:
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I'll be learning something unavailable anywhere else.
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I will be making new friends and networking with other like-minded students from other schools.
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This experience will serve in building my college application portfolio.
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I'll be challenged intellectually.
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