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We are saddened to share that Professor Bill Sandholm passed away earlier this week. Bill was an authority on Evolutionary Game Theory. A great teacher, a dedicated advisor, and truly one of the kindest people in the profession, Bill will be missed dearly.
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Did you know? 2020 Democratic VP nominee Kamala Harris' father, Donald J. Harris, was an associate professor in the UW Economics Department from 1968-1972. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a cancer researcher also at UW.
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Job market candidate Hoyoung (
@hoyoung_yoo_
) studies how an influx of high-skilled remote workers affects local residents in destination cities by using the Tulsa Remote program & building a structural equilibrium model.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Job market candidate Luming (
@luming_chen9
) evaluates the inefficiency of policy uncertainty in the U.S. wind industry using a model featuring bilateral bargaining of long-term contracts and dynamic entry of wind farms.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Natalie (
@nat_duncombe
) uses a DID design to estimate the effect of automation on earnings in the life cycle, and develops a model of how automation affects workers' career trajectories.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Job market candidate Elise (
@EliseMarifian
) combines novel data and a border strategy to study how college advertising affects enrollment and develops a structural model to quantify the demand response to a ban.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Katsuhiro builds an equilibrium search model with temporary layoffs to study the implications of firms’ layoff decisions for labor market and unemployment insurance.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Introducing our 2021 Job Market Candidates! In his job market paper, Gary (
@initialOld
) develops a consumer theory for information goods such as articles from different newspapers or samples from different datasets.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Amrita quantifies how minimum lot sizes affect sorting into neighborhoods and studies how sorting changes when the regulation is relaxed.
#EconTwitter
#EconJobMarket
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Job market candidate Mengqi (
@Mengqi_Wang7
) studies the interactive effect on exports of external trade costs & internal frictions in financial, labor & goods markets, using a dynamic spatial general equilibrium model.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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We are deeply grateful to Chancellor Emerita Rebecca Blank for her decade of leadership of the university. The Economics and University of Wisconsin communities will miss her dearly.
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In her job market paper, Annie (
@anniesoyeanlee
) shows that currency mismatch on lenders is a key determinant of foreign exchange rate risk premia and the currency composition of emerging market sovereign external debt.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Sharada studies how test score value-added across grades affects schooling and earnings. She finds higher returns in later grades and evidence for complementarities over time.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Nisha (
@nisha_chikhale
) develops an OLG model w/ beliefs about the return to parental inputs to quantify the macro effects of scaling-up a policy intervention that targets parental expectations.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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The
#DayOfTheBadger
has begun! Here are a few friends of
#UWEcon
wearing red to show their support.
Show us your
#BadgerRed
attire, or share your favorite UW memory!
#DoubleYourImpact
#1848Minutes
#WearRed
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In his job market paper, Marco shows that when competing firms conspire to raise retail prices with the help of an upstream supplier, the wholesale price can be used as a tool to facilitate coordination.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Anson (
@AnsonZhou9
) shows that endogenous fertility and demographic structure are key to assessing the macroeconomic consequences of child-related benefits on human capital and social mobility.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Sandra (
@sspirovs
) explores how removing migration barriers affects college enrollment and major choice in migrant-sending countries in the European Union.
#OpenBorders
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Mark quantifies the role of firm IP protection investments and patent litigation in shaping product entry barriers and creating superstar firms.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Hans (
@HansSchwarz19
) analyzes the interaction effects of subsidized childcare and parental leave on subsequent labor market outcomes of mothers in Germany.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Arpita (
@ArpitaPatnaik6
) examines the effects of major-specific pricing policies on college major choice and on the distribution of low-income students across majors.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, April (
@AprilMeehl
) models bank decisions under bail-in versus bailout policies to quantify the impacts on the bank size distribution and the frequency of big bank failure.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Adibah finds that as premiums of an optional disability insurance rose, covered individuals claimed less benefits, which gives rise to advantageous selection in the market.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Jonathan studies the effects of private information in the wholesale mortgage market by developing a model of loan performance, lender beliefs, and investor prices.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Dan (
@dan_beemon
) studies the potential impact of universal healthcare on the distribution of wages and the time it takes for this transition to occur.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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"I enjoyed my time as Editor of
@qe_editors
and am grateful to be a part of the advancement of the field.” - Professor Christopher Taber
On July 1, 2021 Christopher Taber stepped down as Editor of Quantitative Economics at the end of his term. We are very grateful to him for his contribution to the journal and all his hard work over the past 4 years.
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In her job market paper, Cici (
@cici_mcnamara
) examines why patients do not participate in preventive care and how health information technology can be used to increase cancer screening rates.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Renata studies if enabling riders and drivers to set prices in a ride-hailing platform improves efficiency. She finds that pricing decentralization can benefit both sides of the market.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Wanjia quantifies various effects of leasing on the profitability and market power of durable goods oligopolists. He studies how these effects depend on quality depreciation and market structure.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Jason studies how much providing credit lines to firms contributes to bank risk and its welfare implications.
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#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Sarah (
@SarahWaldfogel
) builds a model of the supply of and demand for candidate ideology to quantify how out-of-district donations have contributed to US Congressional polarization.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Gabriel defines a game between senders to study information platforms - like social media - where signals are endogenously noisy.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Yuteng studies the impact of mandatory retention rules in securitization on bank risk. He explores the unintended consequences of the rules and whether the current retention ratio is optimal.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Rosemary (
@rosemary_kaiser
) models the selection of younger workers into more precarious jobs, as documented empirically, and estimates the effects of changing employment protection laws.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Yulia studies how pre-college parental investment affects college student sorting. She quantifies overinvestment & associated output losses induced by race to the top of college distribution.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Introducing our 2020 Job Market Candidates! First up,
@JoannaVenator
. Who better to describe her paper than herself!
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
🚨JOB MARKET PAPER THREAD
#econtwitter
🚨 I’m a labor economist on the market this year who studies gender, families, and migration. Interested in learning more about how households choose where to live and work? Keep reading ( )… [1/N]
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In his job market paper, Ziwei (
@ziweiwang93
) proposes a notion of stability to study matching with incomplete information. He provides a robustness foundation and an epistemic characterization for his solution concept.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his JMP, Moshi (
@MoshiAlam
) estimates the impact of a pay-equity law using linked employer-employee data in an event-study design. Leveraging key institutional details, he documents large unintended consequences.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Sam (
@SamuelPEngle
) develops a new relative efficiency measure to study how variance estimation affects the power of tests, and shows that there is a robustness-efficiency tradeoff.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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The Department of Economics congratulates Professor Dean Corbae, William Sellery Trunkenbrod Chair in Finance, in his election to Fellow of the Econometrics Society. Professor Corbae has been teaching at UW-Madison since 2011. Congratulations!
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In his job market paper, Joel (
@joel_mcmurry
) shows how accounting for variation in the availability of informal child care is crucial to understanding the effects of policy on early life inequality.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his JMP, Wentao (
@WentaoZhouEcon
) shows empirically & theoretically how elevated uncertainty affects the real economy via firms' balance sheet adjustments & proposes credit interventions as stabilization policies.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Jeremy (
@Jeremy_A_Kirk
) studies the impact of parents' resources during the Great Recession on the college attainment and labor market outcomes of children.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Jon models supply and demand in the US hotel sector to estimate merger efficiencies and assess the effects of hotel firm consolidation on competition and welfare.
#EconJobMarket
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Introducing our 2019 Job Market Candidates! First up, Zhigang Ge. In his job market paper, Zhigang quantitatively studies the marginal tax rate for top incomes with entrepreneurs and shows the rate in the US is close to optimal.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Assistant Professor Corina Mommaerts recently spoke with the American Economic Association on the "economics of Alzheimer's disease." Scan the QR code or go to to listen!
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In his job market paper, Shoya uses a dynamic model to study how the place a child grows up affects their post-high school outcomes and income inequality.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Nico (
@nicobada2
) studies how parents and children adjust their time investment in response to classroom and teacher quality and the implications for school resource allocation policies.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Day of the Badger has started!
#dayofthebadger
is an opportunity for the Badger community to donate to a cause important to them. Thanks to generous donors, all donations to Economics will be matched up to $25,000!
Donate here:
We appreciate your support!
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Jingnan's (
@JaneJingnan
) JMP uses theory + novel data to study how worker mobility shapes inter-firm knowledge diffusion, innovation, and economic growth, exploring how non-competes impact growth through these channels.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Zehao builds a general equilibrium model to investigate the relationship between financial intermediary leverage and unemployment.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Lois (
@Lois_Miller
) uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effects of transferring between colleges on students' degree completion and medium-term earnings (up to 20 yrs later).
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Tune in tonight!
The second in the
@CROWE_UW
Fall Series, featuring a discussion of "Fiscal Policy in the US in 2020 and Beyond" with
@Brian_Riedl
, will be on Tuesday, October 6 at 7PM. Join us! Details here: Thanks to all who tuned in on Monday for a great discussion.
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In his job market paper, Tianli studies an anti-trust case of resale price maintenance. He finds that RPM is pro-competitive and builds a model to disentangle efficiency gains and lessening competition costs.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Yu-Chi suggests that the low empirical estimate of transfer-income derivatives may not be deemed as evidence to reject parental altruism.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Xinrong (
@zhu_xinrong
) infers the presence & prevalence of Category Captaincy, a confidential vertical contract between retailers & manufacturers, and quantifies its impact on retail industry.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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One of our PhD job market candidates,
@JoannaVenator
, will discuss her JMP at tomorrow's
@HarvardGWE
"Heterogeneity by Gender: Evidence from JMPs" event.
Register here:
📢📢📢 Join us on Dec 8, 10am EST, for our 1st ever "Heterogeneity by Gender: Evidence from JMPs" event.
@stephaniedcheng
,
@PaulaLopezPena2
,
@NinaRoussille
,
#KarenShen
and
@JoannaVenator
will discuss their JMPs on outcomes by gender across a range of contexts.
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In his job market paper, Elan provides new methods for survival analysis when data is subject to record linkage error, and applies them to estimate establishment survival rates.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Chang studies the impact of regional risk on aggregate fluctuations, and how federal fiscal policy effectively undoes it.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Andrey (
@andreyzubanov
) studies the impact of the recent decline in TV viewership on the U.S. TV advertising market.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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More appreciation for another
#UWEcon
undergraduate:
@emilyjanicik
, who is a double major in Econ and
@UWMadGNS
.
Emily is involved with
#DayOfTheBadger
; are you? Share how you're celebrating these
#1848minutes
!
#StayConnectedMakeADifference
Our
@UWMadisonLS
students are rocking
#dayofthebadger
, including
@emilyjanicik
, a
@WIeconomics
and
@UWMadGNS
major who's also a Dean's Ambassador.
#Badger
pride!
#WeAreLS
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@MoshiAlam
is a Public and Labor economist studying topics of discrimination and inequality with a focus on how preferences and beliefs lead to different economic outcomes and evaluation of policies affecting economic inequality.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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We hope you can join us tonight as we welcome
@neelkashkari
to UW-Madison! Free tickets are still available at
In case you can’t make it, check out the live steam at 4:30!
If you can’t make it to today’s discussion with
@neelkashkari
at the Wisconsin and the National Economy event in Madison sponsored by
@CROWE_UW
, watch it live at 4:30pm CT at .
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Congratulations to Econ Professor Naoki Aizawa for winning the Econometric Society 2021 Best Paper Prize for his paper "Labor market sorting and health insurance system design" in Quantitative Economics!
#UWEcon
#EconTwitter
2021 "Best Paper Prize" Awarded
We are pleased to announce the Econometric Society 2021 Best Paper Prize, "Labor market sorting and health insurance system design" by Naoki Aizawa, Quantitative Economics, Volume 10, Issue 4 (November 2019).
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In his job market paper, Francesco studies the relationship between the independence of boards of directors and shareholder value
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Youngjae (
@Youngjaeh_econ
) reveals that the presence of a unique lump-sum deposit rental contract stimulates housing demand in South Korea, based on the life-cycle model with housing contract choices.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Gary (
@initialOld
) considers how standard consumer theory looks when the goods in question are different sources of information (for example, articles from different newspapers).
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Join us next Thursday Oct 12 in the Great Hall of Memorial Union from 5-6pm to hear from William Darity Jr. & Kirsten Mullen as they speak on Reparations & the Nation's Capital. There will be a nacho bar reception directly after. See you there!
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In her job market paper, Hae-young develops a novel method for estimating the distribution of elasticities of medical expenditures with respect to OOP costs, using bunching responses to a notch in Korea.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Yu studies whether hospital mergers are followed by an elimination of duplicate services to reduce costs.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In her job market paper, Erika develops a structural model of demand and supply to analyze consumer welfare after a new product is acquired and becomes available in more stores
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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We have axe-cellent alumni who go on to do really tree-mendous things! Looks like you're doing just pine, Cassidy; not board at all! 🌲
@UWMadison
@WisAlumni
@UWMadisonLS
At timbersports contests, says
@UWMadison
@WisAlumni
Cassidy Scheer ’04, he’s “clearly the person who’s having the most fun" — and it's made him a world champion.
@STIHLUSA
@LumberjackChmps
@WIeconomics
@UWMadisonLS
He Came, He Sawed, He Conquered
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Last week we celebrated our MS graduates at our winter graduation ceremony! Congratulations to our amazing students and good luck to everyone finishing up finals! 📚
#uwecon
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In his job market paper, Steve investigates the effects of corporate foreign currency debt on sovereign funding costs in emerging countries.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Jean-Francois Houde, Douglas W. and Sherry A. Caves Professor of Economics at UW-Madison, shares his insights on current gas prices.
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Congratulations,
@EliseMarifian
!
Congrats to
@EliseMarifian
, a
@WCER_UW
ITP fellow and
@WIeconomics
Ph.D. Candidate, for winning a
@AERA_EdResearch
Grants Dissertation Award 🎉🎉
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Congratulations University of Wisconsin-Madison
#FedChallenge
team on placing in the top 6 in the US out of 70+ teams!
#buckylovesecon
Congratulations to the college students who competed in the 2021 National
#FedChallenge
Finals:
The 2021 winner is
@PaceUniversity
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Our instructors are committed to providing quality instruction, regardless of modality. Be sure to check out our Spring 2021 FAQ to prepare for your enrollment in an Econ course!
In the latest in our series of looks at the ways professors and students are adapting to teaching and learning during
#COVID19
@WIeconomics
's Dan Quint built a DIY lightboard studio in his basement.
#WeAreLS
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Happy first day of classes! We're happy to see you all back on campus. We are wishing you the very best today! 😊
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In his job market paper, Srinivas shows that introducing a strategy that is not a norm can facilitate transitions from inefficient to efficient norms, in a class of games under many evolutionary dynamics.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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In his job market paper, Diwakar studies how participation and bidding strategies in sequential auctions are affected by pre-announcements of future period auctions.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Two important events today:
#BadgersVote
#DayOfTheBadger
It’s Election Day in Wisconsin! Polls are open until 8 p.m. CDT and you can register at your polling place.
Go to to find:
📍 where to vote
🗳 what’s on your ballot
📄 how to register
#BadgersVote
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In his job market paper, Kohei examines whether cryptocurrency bubbles will last for the future.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Curious about the economic impact COVID-19 has had on Wisconsin? Professor Noah Williams will discuss the data live with
@mkerotary
tomorrow at 12:00.
My discussion tomorrow with the Rotary Club of Milwaukee will be streamed live here:
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Warmest congratulations to
@WIeconomics
PhD alumna Olivia Mitchell
@OS_Mitchell
, newly elected Distinguished Fellow.
Congratulations to
@OS_Mitchell
, newly elected Distinguished Fellow. Olivia Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor and also Professor of Insurance and Risk Management and Business Economics and Policy at
@Wharton
.
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In his job market paper, Garrett Anstreicher develops a spatial overlapping generations model to study the role of migration in shaping economic mobility in the United States.
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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It has been wonderful to see the support from
#BadgerAlumni
far and near. A very special thank you to
@jeffvhs
for your
#DayOfTheBadger
gift!
#StayConnectedMakeADifference
#GoBadgers
#1848Minutes
#DoubleYourImpact
#MatchingGift
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We are grateful to have welcomed Jan Hatzius and Eric Rosengren back to campus this semester! Read more about their time at UW and their current roles at Goldman Sachs and the Boston Federal Reserve.
The
@WIeconomics
department has some seriously powerful alumni, Like the chief economist at
@GoldmanSachs
. And the president/CEO of the
@BostonFed
. Find out which one of them still uses his econ class notes from
@UWMadison
.
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In her job market paper, Xiaoye (Phoebe) studies the benefits of long-term contracts in small business lending
#EconJobMarket
#EconTwitter
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Congratulations to Econ PhD Students Olga Kiseleva and Yingtong Xie, both receiving 2020 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards for excellence in teaching and instructional continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Funding from the alumni network helped provide WE the opportunity attend their career development trip to Chicago! The trip created many memories and gave Women in Econ the opportunity to explore the limitless world of economics.
#DayoftheBadger
#WIEconomics
#womenineconomics
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Congratulations to Econ Professor Ananth Seshadri on being named a 2021-2022 Vilas Associate! The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.
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Join us TOMORROW from 5:30-6:30pm in 8417 Social Sciences for EconTalks! Hear from a panel of PhD students speaking on their economic research, and connect with fellow students! Snacks included 🍿
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In her job market paper, Yue uses a structural demand model to investigate price coordination among drug manufacturers involved in a common HIV cocktail regimen.
#EconJobMarket
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Join
@DanielFlatley
,
@HeinzCollege
,
@UWMadison
,
@Columbia
, &
@RANDCorporation
on Monday, April 17 at 12:30PM ET for an important discussion on the strategic relationship between the U.S. & China. Register now:
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