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Interview of John Weymark published in a Springer volume
Apr. 2, 2021—An interview of John Weymark by Felix Bierbrauer (University of Cologne) and Claude d’Aspremont (Université Catholique de Louvain) has been published by Springer in Marc Fleurbaey and Maurice Salles, Eds., Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory – Vol. 1. In the same volume, there is an interview of Allan Gibbard conducted by Weymark and...
Kitt Carpenter wins University award for diversity and inclusion
Apr. 2, 2021—Christopher “Kitt” Carpenter, E. Bronson Ingram Chair and Professor of Economics, and Director of the Program in Public Policy Studies, was recently honored with the Joseph A. Johnson, Jr. Distinguished Leadership Professor Award. Named in honor of Bishop Joseph Johnson, who was the first African American to earn an undergraduate and a doctoral degree at...
Ebehireme Iyoha, PhD ’21: From Vanderbilt to the Fed to Harvard
Mar. 30, 2021—Ebehi Iyoha’s research applies network theory to the study of firm-to-firm interactions within and across countries’ borders. In her dissertation, she explores how US publicly-listed companies are affected by the efficiency of their customers and suppliers. Her research finds that central firms in the production network—such as General Motors, AT&T and Walmart—can have large impacts...
Ryan Grawe ’20 recognized as Fulbright Scholar
Mar. 25, 2021—Ryan Grawe, who graduated in 2020 with a B.A. in economics and political science, has been named a Fulbright Scholar. Each year the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces the top-producing institutions for the Fulbright program, the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Fulbright recipients typically spend an academic year...
Immersion Vanderbilt: Thomas Hum’s semester in SE Asia will provide personal as well as academic immersion
Mar. 25, 2021—Thomas Hum’s Immersion project, planned for Spring 2022, will plunge him not only academically into studying the developing economies of China and Singapore, but also physically into the homes of families in the towns he will visit. As a participant in the School for International Training, he will travel to and study the growing financial centers...
Senior Lecturer Heather Luea wins prestigious teaching award
Mar. 23, 2021—Heather Luea, Senior Lecturer in Economics, is the 2021 winner for the Social Sciences of the University’s Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. The Gilliam Award was established in 1995 in memory of Harriet S. Gilliam, B.A., 1966. The award recognizes a lecturer or senior lecturer who...
Harold Chiang, PhD ’20: Cutting-edge econometrics at Wisconsin-Madison
Mar. 23, 2021—Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison As an econometrician, Harold works on bridging the division between cutting-edge econometric theory and the frontiers of empirical economic research. The tools developed in Harold’s research can be applied to different empirical economic questions in education, labor economics, international trade, and industrial organization, among others.
View our Spring 2021 McGee lecture on the economics of the COVID-19 pandemic
Mar. 20, 2021—View Spring 2021 McGee lecture, “The Macroeconomic Policy Response to the Pandemic: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” by Christina Romer of UC-Berkeley here.
John Weymark gives keynote lecture
Mar. 15, 2021—John Weymark delivered his paper, “Vaihinger’s Fictionalism Meets Binmore’s Knowledge-as-Commitment,” as a keynote lecture to the online Joint Meeting of Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ANPOSS), the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), and the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable (POSS-RT) hosted by Hitotsubashi University on March...
Economics Department hires three new assistant professors
Feb. 12, 2021—Welcome to our new faculty, who will be starting in Fall 2021! Christopher Li comes to us from an assistant professorship in Political Science at Florida State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern in 2016, then held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale and Princeton before going to FSU. Interested in microeconomics and political...