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.
The Department of Economics hosted the second leg of the North American REStud on October 11, 2023.
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.
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Yongseok Shin installed as inaugural Douglass C. North Distinguished Professor in Economics
Limor Golan, an expert in labor economics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was installed as the inaugural Laurence H. Meyer Professor at a ceremony in Holmes Lounge in March.
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.
George-Levi Gayle talks about his work, the department, and importance of economics.