Fama is best known for his work analyzing markets and securities prices, pioneering research closely followed by academics and financial services professionals alike. He received the Nobel Memorial ...

I n the epilogue of their blockbuster book Mostly Harmless Econometrics (2009), Josh Angrist and Steve Pischke write, “If applied econometrics were easy, theorists would do it.” As academic jokes go, ...

Economists develop economic models to explain consistently recurring relationships. Their models link one or more economic variables to other economic variables (see “Economic Models,” p. 8). For ...

The Department of Economics has more than twenty five full-time faculty members, all of whom hold Ph.D.s in Economics. We are productive researchers in the areas of economic theory, econometrics, ...