Cowles Foundation

07/23/2024

July 22, 2024 | News Cowles Foundation Announces Five Anderson Fellows for 2024-25 by Luke Strathmann The Cowles Foundation is proud to announce the 2024-25 recipients of the Arvid Anderson Prize Fellowship in Economics: Davide Bordoli, Jingyi Cui, Hongcheng Li, Christina Qiu, and Zhichun Wang. The....

03/17/2022

"A protracted conflict, on top of existing supply-chain woes, will be detrimental to the world economy."

Cowles Foundation member Larry Samuelson of Yale Department of Economics and many other economists discuss Russia's war on Ukraine for The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE Business Review:

What are the likely economic consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the responses by the international community? The Initiative on Global Markets surveyed US and European economists in t…

03/10/2022

What is missing from our current economics models of how people learn and make decisions?

Cowles Foundation member Mira Frick of Yale Department of Economics, recently awarded Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, discusses her research & experiences at Yale University:

In an interview, Mira Frick discusses her innovative work on learning bias and decision making, her path to economics, and her experiences at Yale.

02/15/2022

Congratulations to Yale University economist Mira Frick upon receiving a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship!

The announcement: https://sloan.org/fellowships/2022-Fellows…

Read the interview on the Yale Department of Economics website:
https://economics.yale.edu/news/yale-economist-mira-frick-awarded-2022-sloan-research-fellowship .c80oGUsU.dpbs

Tuesday, February 15, 2022by Greg LarsonMira Frick, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. The two-year, $75,000 fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to early-career scholars across several scientific and technical dis...

11/25/2021

Wishing You and Yours a Safe and Joyful Thanksgiving!

11/11/2021

Four Yale Department of Economics professors and Cowles Foundation research staff members (Sam Kortum, John Geanakoplos, Giuseppe Moscarini, and Fabrizio Zilibotti) give their take on inflation in a Yale Daily News article.
“I’m now much more concerned than I was yesterday.” - Kortum

Four Yale economics professors expressed varying levels of concern about new inflation figures released Wednesday morning.

09/23/2021

Join our team!

The Yale Department of Economics, Yale Economic Growth Center, Cowles Foundation, & Tobin Center is in search of an Economics Communications Specialist to increase the reach of their research and programming.

Details: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=25053&siteid=5248&PageType=JobDetails&jobid=1476214

06/10/2021

Congrats to grad students Haoge Chang, , , Tan Gan, and Ryungha Oh on being named the 2021-22 Arvid Anderson Fellows!
https://cowles.yale.edu/news/2021-22-arvid-anderson-fellows-announced

05/30/2021

Interview with Cowles Foundation member and Yale Department of Economics Prof. William Nordhaus on his new book, The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World. "Markets alone won’t slow global warming sufficiently, and we must supplement markets to deal with contagions and collisions like climate change."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-29/yale-s-nordhaus-sees-cause-for-hope-in-the-spirit-of-green via Bloomberg

It’s been almost three years since William Nordhaus became the first economist to win a Nobel Prize for research on climate change. Now the Yale professor, who turns 80 at the end of May, has a new book out with a note of optimism. The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in...

04/06/2021

New discussion paper by Cowles research member Kevin R. Williams (Yale School of Management) with Judy Chevalier (Yale School of Management), Jason L. Schwartz (Yale School of Public Health), and Yihua Su (Yale School of Public Health)

CFDP 2280: "Equity Impacts of Dollar Store Vaccine Distribution"

https://cowles.yale.edu/publications/cfdp/cfdp-2280

04/06/2021

Revised discussion paper by Yale Department of Economics professors and Cowles research staff members Mira Frick and Ryota Iijima, with Yuhta Ishii (Penn State)

CFDP 2235R: "Belief Convergence under Misspecified Learning: A Martingale Approach"

https://cowles.yale.edu/publications/cfdp/cfdp-2235r

04/02/2021

New article in Rand Journal of Economics by Dirk Bergemann (Cowles Foundation, Yale Department of Economics), Tibor Heumann (HEC Montréal), and Stephen Morris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)):
"Information, Market Power, and Price Volatility"

We consider demand function competition with a finite number of agents and private information. We show that any degree of market power can arise in the unique equilibrium under an information struct...