Center for Law & the Economy Workshop: Daniel Mochon (Tulane)

Rescheduled: The new date for this event is Friday, October 31, 2025 at 11:00-12:20 PM in Room 151 of Weinmann Hall.

The Murphy Institute's Center for Law and the Economy hosts workshops each semester featuring Tulane and guest faculty from the fields of law, economics, and political science. Presenters share their latest research on a range of topics, including regulation, civil rights, the criminal legal system, and other key issues in law and political economy. Papers are distributed beforehand to the participants who read the paper and prepare discussion questions for the presenter.

The workshops, organized by Adam Feibelman, Director of the Center on Law and the Economy and Sumter D. Marks Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, are open to faculty, students, and the Tulane community. The Fall 2025 workshop series, co-convened by Associate Professor of Law and Murphy Affiliate Faculty Mateusz Grochowski, will focus on themes in consumer law, broadly construed. 

Daniel Mochon holds the Edward H. Austin, Jr. Professorship in Business Administration at Tulane's A.B. Freeman School of Business. His research focuses on consumer behavior and decision making. He is interested in understanding how human biases inherent to people's decision making processes affect the choices and judgments they make. He has conducted research in domains such as online dating, health, financial decision making, subjective well-being and consumer perceptions of value. This research has been published in both leading marketing and psychology journals.

Professor Mochon is also interested in how new online tools affect the way people communicate with each other and with businesses. He teaches a course on social and online marketing which examines these issues. He has also conducted research on these topics and consulted with various online companies to help them apply insights from consumer behavior.