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JPE SPECIAL 125TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF ECONOMICS (2017)
PUBLISHED ON DEC 30, 2017 In commemoration of the Journal of Political Economy's 125th anniversary, the journal invited senior colleagues from the ...
HORTAÇSU, ET AL.: NEW COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES HELP PINPOINT 11 "LOST CITIES" USING ANCIENT DATA (2017)
PUBLISHED ON NOV 17, 2017 Using ancient data from 4000-year old clay tablets, new mathematical and computation techniques allow researchers to pinp...
LARRY A. SJAASTAD FUND WILL SUPPORT GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS (2017)
PUBLISHED ON NOV 13, 2017 A graduate fellowship fund in memory of Professor Larry A. Sjaastad has been created in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department...
LIST: CHARITABLE DONATIONS MAY DROP UNDER PROPOSED TAX REFORM BILL (2017)
PUBLISHED ON NOV 13, 2017 In a November 13 Chicago Tribune article, Prof. John A. List, Chair of the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at ...
THE LONG RUN: PROF. HARALD UHLIG AND DAUGHTER ANJULI RUN THE 2017 CHICAGO MARATHON (2017)
PUBLISHED ON OCT 12, 2017 You may know Prof. Harald Uhlig from his long record of published research in macroeconomics and finance, his work as fac...
NEW RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS FROM OUR FACULTY (2017)
PUBLISHED BY ON OCT 11, 2017 Selected journal publications from our departmental faculty are listed and linked on our Research Publications page: n...
MYERSON: HOW TO PREPARE FOR STATE-BUILDING (2017)
PUBLISHED ON OCT 3, 2017 What could America do to be better prepared for future international post-conflict political reconstruction, and what are ...
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE HURRICANE MARIA EMERGENCY DONATION DRIVETHANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE HURRICANE MARIA EMERGENCY DONATION DRIVE (2017)
PUBLISHED ON OCT 2, 2017 Thank you to everyone who contributed to our Emergency Donation Drive with Asociación Benéfica Hijos de Borinquén for the ...
CHANGING CENTURY-OLD STATISTICAL STANDARD COULD IMPROVE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: LIST ET AL. (2017)
PUBLISHED ON SEP 12, 2017 Simply changing the p-value statistical standard, proposed by statistician Ronald Fisher and adopted by the scientific co...
PROF. JOHN LIST RECEIVES HARTSOOK GROWING PHILANTHROPY AWARD (2017)
PUBLISHED ON SEP 10, 2017 At the recent 4th Science of Philanthropy Initiative Conference held at Saieh Hall, Prof. John List was presented the pre...