Washington Area Meeting of Economic Scientists (WAMES) 2026

Friday, April 10 
&
Saturday, April 11

 

FUSE Building, Rooms 1311 & 1312
3401 Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA 22201

 

 

The Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at George Mason University is pleased to host the inaugural Washington Area Meeting of Economic Scientists (WAMES). The meeting will be held on the Arlington campus of George Mason University, in the newly constructed FUSE building. Talks will be held on Friday, April 10th and Saturday, April 11th, 2026. The meeting will include a poster-session for grad students as well as panels on political economy and AI. 

 


Program & Abstracts

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Keynote Addresses

Cristina Bicchieri 

Charles Holt
S. J. Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics
University of Pennsylvania		 A. Willis Robertson Professor of Political Economy 
University of Virginia
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Invited Speakers

David Cesarini Shakun Datta Mago
New York University University Richmond
   
David Klinowski Alexandra Mislin
The College of William & Mary American University
   
Michael Muthukrishna Neslihan Uler
  University of Maryland

 

 

  
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Panels

Day 1: AI

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Day 2: Political Economy

 

 

Venue


FUSE Building
3401 Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA 22201
(garage parking entrance via Founders Way North)

Conference will be held in Room 1311/1312 on the 1st floor. Check-in to receive name badge and conference packet.

 

 

About ICES

The Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) brings together researchers and students interested in using the methods of behavioral and experimental economics to address research questions from a variety of fields. Using both laboratory and field experiments, research at ICES has been conducted in areas including development, finance and political economy. The Center was founded in 2001 by Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith, and has been directed by Daniel Houser since 2009.

 

 

About GMU

George Mason University was founded in 1957. It started in a single building with an enrollment of 17 students. Today, Mason is the largest university in Virginia, including four Virginia campuses and one campus in Songdo, Korea. Mason has grown to more than 39,000 students from 130 countries and all 50 states, and we are one of the most research-intensive universities in the country (categorized as R1 by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.)