AKCIGIT AWARDED NSF CAREER GRANT (2017)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 23, 2017 The University of Chicago Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Ufuk Akcigit has been selected to receive t...
November 22, 2023
TIMOTHY S. FUERST, 1962-2017 (2017)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 23, 2017 The Department of Economics is saddened to announce that Timothy S. Fuerst, AM'87, PhD'90, passed away on February 21 at ...
November 22, 2023
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...
November 22, 2023
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...
November 22, 2023
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...
November 22, 2023
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...
November 22, 2023
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...
November 22, 2023
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 ...
November 22, 2023
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. ...
November 22, 2023
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...
November 22, 2023