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 (GMU) 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

TBA

 


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
***
Title of Talk: TBA		 ***
Title of Talk: TBA

 

 

Invited Speakers

Sheryl Ball David Cesarini
Virginia Tech New York University
Shakun Datta Mago Emel Filiz-Ozbay
University of Richmond University of Maryland
   
Boris Gershman Arkadev Ghosh
American University Duke University
Neeraja Gupta David Klinowski
University of Richmond The College of William & Mary
   
Alexandra Mislin Michael Muthukrishna
American University London School of Economics 
& New York University
   
Tanner Regan Neslihan Uler
George Washington University University of Maryland
   

 

 

Panels

Day 1: AI

Erkut Ozbay
University of Maryland
(Organizer)		 Wei Ai
University of Maryland
(Panelist)		 Ran Shorrer
Pennsylvania State University
(Panelist)		 Tara Sinclair
George Washington University
(Panelist)

 

Day 2: Political Economy

Carlos Scartascini
Inter-American Development Bank
(Organizer)		 Shan Aman-Rana
University of Virginia
(Panelist)		 Juan Felipe Riaño
Georgetown University
(Panelist)		 Michael Best
Columbia University
(Panelist)

 

 

Venue


FUSE Building
3401 Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA 22201
(garage parking entrance via Founders Way from N Kirkwood Road)

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 public research university in the Commonwealth of Virginia, including four Virginia campuses and one campus in Songdo, Korea. Mason has grown to more than 40,000 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.)