Vernon Smith, PhD, and Gabriele Camera, PhD

Gabriele Camera, PhD, is Professor of Economics at Chapman University and the University of Bologna. His research areas include monetary economics, macroeconomics, economic theory, and experimental economics. He has studied behavioral aspects of currency systems through an innovative combination of theoretical and laboratory investigation. His work on the spontaneous emergence of money in laboratory economies has received international media coverage. Vernon L. Smith, PhD, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his groundbreaking work in experimental economics. Dr. Smith has joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business and Economics and the Fowler School of Law, and he is part of a team that has created and will run the new Economic Science Institute at Chapman. He has authored or coauthored more than 350 articles and books on capital theory, finance, natural resource economics and experimental economics.