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VOENA RECEIVES 2017 SLOAN FELLOWSHIP (2017)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 21, 2017 We are very pleased to announce that Alessandra Voena has been named a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow. T...
AKCIGIT, ET AL. MEASURE IMMIGRANTS' CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN INNOVATION (2017)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 8, 2017 In their new NBER working paper, Ufuk Akcigit and collaborators John Grigsby and Tom Nicholas study the "macro and micro-l...
JPE AWARDS INAUGURAL ROBERT E. LUCAS, JR. PRIZE (2017)
PUBLISHED ON JAN 10, 2017 The Journal of Political Economy has awarded the inaugural Robert E. Lucas, Jr. Prize to Boyan Jovanovic and Peter L. Rou...
STUDY SUGGESTS HYDRAULIC FRACTURING BOOSTS LOCAL ECONOMIES (2017)
PUBLISHED ON JAN 3, 2017 In the first comprehensive nationwide study of hydraulic fracturing's impact on local economies where the technique is use...
LEE PRIZE WINNERS 2018 (2018)
The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is pleased to announce our 2018 recipients of the Lee Prize, awarded for receiving the highest score on...
SHAIKH NAMED ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY FELLOW (2018)
PUBLISHED ON NOV 8, 2018 The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics congratulates Azeem Shaikh on being named one of the Econometric Society's ...
MULLIGAN RECEIVES 2018 MUSGRAVE PRIZE (2018)
PUBLISHED ON OCT 30, 2018 Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics Professor Casey Mulligan has been named a recipient of this year's Richard A. ...
USING NEW 20TH CENTURY DATASETS, AKCIGIT ET AL. ANALYZE EFFECTS OF TAXATION ON INNOVATION, INVENTORS, AND R&D FIRMS (2018)
PUBLISHED BY ON OCT 17, 2018 “Understanding how taxation influences innovation is of central importance to create investment incentives for researc...
ECONOMIST PAUL ROMER, SB’77, PHD’83, WINS SHARE OF NOBEL PRIZE (2018)
PUBLISHED ON OCT 8, 2018 On today’s 50th anniversary of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, we are happy to...
LIST AND LEVITT NAMED AMONG LEADING BEHAVIORAL ECONOMISTS (2018)
PUBLISHED ON SEP 12, 2018 While using insights about human nature to explain economic behavior is as old as the field itself, the sub-discipline of...