The University of Chicago Department of Economics has fielded more Nobel Prize laureates and John Bates Clark medalists in economics than any other university.
JOB MARKET CANDIDATES 2011-2012
Selected Publications
Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving
DellaVigna, Stefano, John A. List, and Ulrike Malmendier. 2012. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127(1): 1-56
On the Asymptotic Optimality of Empirical Likelihood for Testing Moment Restrictions
Kitamura, Yuichi, Andres Santos, and Azeem M. Shaikh. 2012. Econometrica, 80(1): 413-23.
Stakes Matter in Ultimatum Games
Andersen, Steffen, Seda Ertaç, Uri Gneezy, Moshe Hoffman, and John A. List. 2011. American Economic Review, 101(7): 3427–39.
Optimal Price Setting With Observation and Menu Costs
Alvarez, Fernando E., Francesco Lippi, and Luigi Paciello. 2011. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(4): 1909-1960.
An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms
Eaton, Jonathan, Samuel Kortum, and Francis Kramarz. 2011. Econometrica, 79(5): 1453-1498.
Estimating Marginal Returns to Education
Carneiro, Pedro, James J. Heckman, and Edward J. Vytlacil. 2011. American Economic Review, 101(6): 2754–81.
News
Professor Emeritus Larry Sjaastad (1934-2012)
Professor Emeritus Larry Sjaastad (AB 1957, AM 1958, PhD 1961, University of Chicago, Economics) died on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. He served as Professor in the Department of Economics from 1962-2004. Read full story.
Glen Weyl Receives Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship
E. Glen Weyl, Assistant Professor, has been chosen to receive a Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research. This prestigious and competitive award from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is awarded to junior faculty members who are actively pursuing research in the field of entrepreneurship. More news.
New Book on China's Economy from Nobel Laureate Ronald H. Coase
Ronald H. Coase, the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics, has written a new book on China's changing policy climate, How China Became Capitalist. "Anyone would be hard-pressed to find another economist that has shaped the direction of the field of law and economics as much as Prof. Coase," says co-author Ning Wang, PhD’02, an assistant professor at Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies. Read full story.
May 10: Conference on Macroeconomic Fragility
The Becker Friedman Institute and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) will host a conference focusing on "Macroeconomic Fragility," Thursday, May 10 at the Stevanovich Center at the University of Chicago. Details and registration information.
