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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...
Christina Romer to deliver Spring McGee webinar on the economics of the COVID-19 pandemic
Feb. 11, 2021—Christina D. Romer of UC-Berkeley will give the Spring 2021 McGee Public Policy Webinar on the topic, “The Macroeconomic Policy Response to the Pandemic: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” on Tuesday, March 9 at 4:00 PM. Registration is required and can be accessed here. Click here for more information about the webinar.
Michelle Marcus’ published paper featured by AEA
Jan. 25, 2021—Michelle Marcus’ paper, “Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, and Health,” published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, is the topic of an AEAWeb piece. Professor Marcus’ paper examines the health impacts from leaking underground storage tanks seeping chemicals into the soil and groundwater, and finds that regulatory action and information given to residents...
Myrna Wooders spending sabbatical leave at NYU-Abu Dhabi
Jan. 11, 2021—Myrna Wooders, currently on sabbatical, is spending the spring semester as a Visiting Research Professor at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Her Ph.D. student, Zeeshan Samad, has accepted a position at the World Bank following his January graduation.
Michelle Marcus has paper published on petroleum regulation and health
Jan. 6, 2021—Michelle Marcus’ paper, “Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, and Health,” was published as the lead article in the January issue of American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. This paper quantifies the health impacts of petroleum leaks from underground storage tanks, the effectiveness of tank regulation, and the role of information as a policy tool.
Ph.D. candidate Hoang earns Best Paper in Applied Economics award
Dec. 19, 2020—Ph.D. candidate Trang Hoang’s job market paper, “The Dynamics of Global Sourcing,” has been selected for the Best Paper Award in Applied Economics at the Econometric Society Winter School 2020. A panel of 20 experts from different fields selected 162 papers for the presentation out of 254 papers submitted. In the second round, only 25...
Kevin Huang’s article to be published
Dec. 7, 2020—Kevin Huang’s paper, “Economic Dynamics of Epidemiological Bifurcations,” has been accepted for publication in Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics. The paper is coauthored with David Aadland and David Finnoff, associate and full professors of Economics at the University of Wyoming, respectively.
Myrna Wooders publishes papers and gives invited lecture
Nov. 30, 2020—Myrna Wooders has recently published two papers, “Subgame Perfect Cooperation in an Extensive Form Game” in the Journal of Economic Theory (with P. Chander), and “Own Experience Bias in Evaluating the Effort of Others, in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (with Edward Cartwright). The first paper is pure theory while the second is a...
Econ majors complete two-month long Fed Challenge
Nov. 23, 2020—Economics majors Edward Ding, Alex Feye, Paul McDougald, Christian Moran, and Karl Wirth have just completed a two-month long Fed Challenge. The Fed Challenge involves students studying the state of the U.S. economy, and making forecasts and policy recommendations (on video), all modeled after real world Federal Reserve research and policy analysis, culminating in the...