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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...
UHLIG APPOINTED RITZENTHALER CHAIR (2018)
PUBLISHED ON JUN 1, 2018 The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Harald Uhlig has been appointed the i...
JPE TO PUBLISH GARY BECKER'S “A THEORY OF INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY” (2018)
PUBLISHED ON MAY 23, 2018 An important new work from Gary Becker will be released in the near future, more than four years after the death of the N...
LAMADON APPOINTED NBER LABOR STUDIES RESEARCH FELLOW (2018)
PUBLISHED ON MAY 10, 2018 The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has recently appointed Professor Thibaut Lamadon as a member and Faculty ...
SBCA HONORS PROF. GEORGE S. TOLLEY (2018)
PUBLISHED ON APR 27, 2018 Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics Professor Emeritus George S. Tolley is this year's Society for Benefit-Cost An...