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MYERSON: FIVE RULES TO GET STATE-BUILDING RIGHT (2016)
PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 27, 2016 In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, Roger Myerson assesses the difficult lessons we've learned from recent wars wi...
November 22, 2023
NOBEL LAUREATE LARS HANSEN INTERVIEWED IN MÓN EMPRESARIAL (2016)
PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 21, 2016 The David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics & the College, Lars Peter Hansen, rece...
November 22, 2023
ROBERT E. LUCAS JR. TO RECEIVE PHOENIX PRIZE (2016)
PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 3, 2016 Nobel laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr. will join a short, distinguished list of faculty to receive the Phoenix Prize, the...
November 22, 2023
LIST AND HORTACSU: TRADING EXPERIENCE CHANGES HOW BRAIN PROCESSES SELLING DECISIONS (2016)
PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 3, 2016 Recently published research by John List, Ali Hortaçsu, et al. suggests that trading changes how the human brain evalu...
November 22, 2023
METCALFE, LEVITT, ET AL.: BIG DATA GIVES INSIGHT INTO APPEAL OF SERVICES LIKE UBER (2016)
PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 A group of economists at the University of Chicago and University of Oxford working with researchers at Uber found ...
November 22, 2023
ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS 2016 CONFERENCE SEP. 15-16, 2016 (2016)
PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2016 The Advances with Field Experiments 2016 conference at the University of Chicago will gather a group of academics t...
November 22, 2023
LIST & LEVITT FIND UNEXPECTED PURCHASING PATTERNS FOR "VIRTUAL GOODS" (2016)
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 18, 2016 Using field experiments, UChicago Economics' John List and Steve Levitt discovered something unusual about gamers' pur...
November 22, 2023
LIST NAMED NON-PROFIT TIMES' POWER & INFLUENCE TOP 50 INNOVATOR (2016)
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 11, 2016 Department of Economics Chair John List once again has been selected as one of the Non-Profit Times' Power and Influen...
November 22, 2023
ROMER NAMED WORLD BANK CHIEF ECONOMIST (2016)
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 11, 2016 "This position gives me a unique chance to learn about the thing that fascinates me most - producing knowledge that is...
November 22, 2023
SAIEH HALL RECEIVES FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HONOR AWARD (2016)
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 11, 2016 Citing the adaptive reuse of the former CTS building as an “innovative model for campus planning, growth, sustainabili...
November 22, 2023