UAA Master of Public Administration students Brandon Nye, Kate Wright, Katie Dougherty and Loreen Davis participated in the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) Batten Student Simulation Competition on Feb. 25 at the University of Washington campus in Seattle.
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This summer the visiting UAA Rasmuson Chair of Economics, Dr. Bart Wilson from Chapman University, is running his annual summer scholars program at UAA. The deadline is soon, on March 9. It is an absolutely FANTASTIC opportunity for a motivated student.
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The College of Business and Public Policy's Leadership Fellows Program pairs high-performing CBPP students with a mentor in the Anchorage business community, giving students the opportunity to learn about real-world leadership from local business leaders. This year’s cohort includes 21 CBPP students, called protégés, and their mentors. To begin the program, each protégé interviewed their new mentor, and every week, we will feature one of these interviews with the mentors, who share their thoughts on leadership. This week’s featured protégé/mentor pairing is Mackenzie Tubbs, and her mentors Hellen Payeres & Ray Flores.
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Marie Claire Villeval, University of Lyon, will be hosting a seminar on her paper "Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior: Theory, Estimation, and Empirical Evidence", co-authored with Ellen Gabrino and Robert Slonim. From the paper's abstract: We theoretically show that loss averse agents facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or a better financial payoff if they report dishonestly are more likely to lie the lower the ex-ante probability of the bad outcome. This occurs due to the ex-ante expected payoff increasing as the bad outcome becomes less likely, and hence the greater the loss that can be avoided by lying. We demonstrate robust support for this role of loss aversion on lying by reanalyzing the results from the extant literature covering 74 studies and 363 treatments, and from two new experiments that vary the outcome probabilities and examine lying for personal gain and for gains to causes one supports or opposes. To measure and compare lying behavior across treatments and studies, we develop an empirical method that estimates the full distribution of dishonesty when agents privately observe the outcome of a random process and can misreport what they observed.
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The College of Business and Public Policy's Leadership Fellows Program pairs high-performing CBPP students with a mentor in the Anchorage business community, giving students the opportunity to learn about real-world leadership from local business leaders. This year’s cohort includes 21 CBPP students, called protégés, and their mentors. To begin the program, each protégé interviewed their new mentor, and every week, we will feature one of these interviews with the mentors, who share their thoughts on leadership. This week’s featured protégé/mentor pairing is Ryan Ellison, and his mentor Bill Popp.
Read: Leadership Fellows Mentor Interview - 2/20/2017