Quiet quitting. RTO. Coffee badging. What this new vocabulary says about your workplace
Yongseok Shin is featured in the Los Angeles Times on March 4, 2024.
Yongseok Shin is featured in the Los Angeles Times on March 4, 2024.
Robert Pollak, the Hernreich Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the Washington University in St. Louis, joins the podcast to discuss his work modeling economic decisions and bargaining within families and how he and his wife, an English professor and American poetry scholar, navigated the “two career problem.”
Development economists can complement their research with techniques from across the "micro-macro divide" to improve the policy relevance of their findings.
Ian Fillmore has been published in The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 90, Issue 3, May 2023.
Mourifié and Yenmez received official communication from the Dean's office that their appointment as Professors of Economics with tenure has been approved by the Board of Trustees.
Yongs Shin quoted about companies resisting layoffs even as economic weakness looms in a Wall Street Journal article.
On May 17, colleagues, family, and friends gathered in Holmes Lounge to celebrate the installation of George-Levi Gayle, professor of economics, as the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor in Economics.
"Book Fair, For and Against Protest and When it Crosses the Line and Becomes Censorship" by Carlo Melzi d'Eril – Giulio Enea Vigevani with a reply by Michele Boldrin in Il Sole 24 ORE on May 21, 2024.
Michele Boldrin and Federico Fatello discuss a number of interesting interventions, including that of Ivan Lagrosa in Mondo Economico, which have rekindled the debate on three issues of particular relevance for Italy.
Steve Fazzari quoted in Politifact on May 15, 2023.
REStud North America Tour 2023 – host venues announced
More than $480,000 in seed grants will support 10 teams of faculty members using advanced computational tools to tackle urgent social issues.
Installation of George-Levi Gayle as the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics
Installation of Yongseok Shin as the Douglass C. North Distinguished Professor
Steve Fazzari quoted in TIME on March 21, 2023.
Professor Ian Fillmore was featured in WalletHub's piece about How to Lower Your Car Insurance Premiums.
Ana and SangMok received official communication from the dean’s office that their tenure cases were approved by the Board of Trustees.
George Gayle has agreed to serve as chair of the Department of Economics
The labor market remains incredibly tight in the U.S. which usually means fewer people are working. In this case, though, it’s mostly that workers are choosing to work fewer hours. Specifically, higher-earning men have chosen to cut back their hours worked perhaps because the pandemic made them reassess their priorities. That could signal a wider trend toward better work-life balance as more and more workers adjust their work lives to make a similar decision.
Last month, Yongseok Shin, professor of economics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, published a new working paper, “Where Are the Workers? From Great Resignation to Quiet Quitting,” through the National Bureau of Economic Research with graduate students Dain Lee and Jinhyeok Park.
Installation of Limor Golan as the Laurence H. Meyer Professor of Economics
The ranks of American workers are thinning—often because people aged out of the workforce, or never entered it. Their absence could impede the economy’s ability to grow, and make for a less prosperous future.
While most U.S. workers are putting in fewer hours, men in the top 10% of earners cut back their time on the job the most, according to a new study
The supply of workers is at pre-pandemic levels, but demand is far greater
Dain Lee, Jinhyeok Park, and Yongseok Shin quoted in Bloomberg article on January 9, 2023.
The Department of Economics congratulates Phil Dybvig, the Boatmen's Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance in the Olin School of Business and Professor of Economics (by courtesy) in Arts & Sciences, on the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics he shared with Ben Bernanke and Doug Diamond. Phil has been a generous colleague and an especially supportive mentor for our PhD students. We are all very proud of his accomplishments.
Yongs Shin speaks to NPR's Marketplace on September 21, 2022.
Economist Andrew Jordan uses data analytics to uncover potential bias in the criminal justice system by studying the decisions made by courts, police, and prosecutors.
Yongs Shin was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on July 25, 2022.
If you were unable to join the event at the Weidenbaum Center, you can watch the event recording at the link provided below: Tale of Two Subsidies: Why the Afghan army did not fight and the Ukrainian army did.
Ian Fillmore quoted in the New York Times on January 14, 2022.
Industrial policy has divided economists for decades. This column evaluates Korean government's policy of promoting heavy and chemical industries in the 1970s, using plant-level output and productivity data. It shows that output and input use of targeted industries/regions grew significantly faster than those of non-targeted ones. However, total factor productivity did not increase because the misallocation of resources across plants within targeted industries/regions got significantly worse.
The American Rescue Plan is a remarkable effort to jump-start the U.S. economy and will lead to very fast growth of the U.S. economy over the next year, according to Steven Fazzari, director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy.
Steven Fazzari featured in a KSDK article on February 18, 2021.
Yongseok Shin quoted in a Washington Post article on January 27, 2021.
George-Levi Gayle quoted in Discover Magazine article on July 10, 2020.
Yongseok Shin quoted in The Associated Press article, June 30, 2020.
Weidenbaum Center Incoming Director Steve Fazzari is featured guest on PBS Donnybrook Show. In the second half-hour, the regular panel of St. Louis journalists are joined by Steve Fazzari. Fazzari segment starts at 28 minutes, 27 seconds on the video.
Yongseok Shin quoted in The Associated Press article, May 11, 2020.
Steve Fazzari participates in the economic debate about the effects of the coronavirus, March 31, 2020, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Michele Boldrin participates in the economic debate about the effects of the coronavirus, April 7, 2020, Econopoly.
The Department of Economics is very happy to announce that George and Limor have been promoted to the rank of Full Professors.
It is with great pleasure that the Department of Economics can announce that Bruce Petersen has been appointed to be the holder of the Bert and Jeanette Lynch Distinguished Professorship in Economics, and Yongs Shin has been to be holder of the Douglass C. North Distinguished Professorship in Economics. Congratulations to Bruce and Yongs on the wonderful news!
An article from Steven Fazzari on the impact of COVID-19 and the American Economy.
Yongseok Shin's former graduate students have gone on to be successful educators, economists, and researchers. Here, Shin shares his mentorship philosophy.
Norman Schofield, the William Taussig Professor of Political Economy in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, in St. Louis, surrounded by family. He was 75.
Fredric Raines, associate professor emeritus of economics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, in St. Louis. He was 86.
Sending off the Department of Economics' Undergraduate Class of 2019.
The Department of Economics, along with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, hosted the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) in June.
The Distinguished Faculty Leadership Award in Arts & Sciences is awarded to an outstanding faculty member in recognition of exceptional service to the University. The award was established in 2014 by Dean Barbara Schaal.
The American Economic Review, June 2019 - VOL. 109, NO. 6, JUNE 2019, pp. 2036-72, by Carlos Garriga, Rodolfo Manuelli, Adrian Peralta-Alva
A key question in designing an effective taxation system is whether to tax people individually or jointly within households. In some countries, such as the UK, income tax is based purely on people’s own personal income, regardless of whether they are single or married. In contrast, some countries, such as the United States, tax individuals based on total family income: for a married couple, this means that both spouses are necessarily subject to the same marginal tax rate.
Episode 118: Ian Fillmore - Economist and co-author of "Technological Change and Obsolete Skills: Evidence from Men’s Professional Tennis", Released Feb 05, 2019
Congratulations to our recently promoted faculty! They are: Gaetano Antinolfi, Brian Rogers, Jonathan Weinstein, Sudeshna Bandyopadhyay, and Maria Canon.
Professor Buera works in macroeconomics with a focus on macroeconomic development. Read about the installation ceremony and Buera's work in the Record.
Congratulations, Professor Shin!
Buera works in macroeconomics, with a focus on macroeconomic development.
Meet the newest members of the Department of Economics!