If you are interested in declaring a major or minor in Economics or Mathematical Economics this week is a good week to do so. 15-19 Feb is Major/Minor Declaration Week. If you have questions contact Jo Hamilton at hamiltjk@wfu.edu. picture-MRU
Professor Jac Heckelman will host this virtual conference. The keynote speaker is Steven Brams (NYU – Political Science, past president of the Public Choice Society) “Political Engineering: Reflections of a Reformer”. For the full program and free registration see here
Saturday, 26 September 2020 Professors Jac Heckelman and Koleman Strumpf have organized a Political Economy conference to take place on Saturday, 26 September 2020 and virtually. Here is a link: http://users.wfu.edu/strumpks/PEConf_2020/WakeForest_PEConference.html The web page has a schedule and opportunities to attend. Image courtesy of Banksy
Leah Lakdawala comes to us from Michigan State University. She completed her PhD at UCSD with a focus on topics in Development, Labor, and Health Economics. This fall she will teach Applied Econometrics. You can read more about Leah on our faculty page and on her personal website https://leahlakdawala.weebly.com/
Alex Yu joins the department having completed her PhD at UCSD. Her research focuses on Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics. In the fall she will teach Applied Econometrics. Her personal website is https://sites.google.com/view/alexyu
Aeimit joins us from Michigan State University having completed his PhD at UCSD. His research focuses on Monetary Policy and other empirical macroeconomic topics. In the fall he will teach Monetary Theory and Policy. You can find out more about Aeimit on our faculty page and on his personal website https://aeimit.weebly.com/
Congratulations to the Class of 2020 and in particular to our Economics and Mathematical Economics Majors and Minors! Click here to view messages from department faculty https://spark.adobe.com/video/eArINUjzrVNTM
Thursday March 19, 2020 5 p.m. in Annenberg Forum, 111 Carswell Hall. Dr. Todd Sandler is Vibhooti Shukla Professor of Economics and Political Economy at University of Texas-Dallas. Sandler has several books and numerous articles on collective action and public goods provisions, and has been awarded Duncan Black prize for best article in Public Choice…
Wednesday, February 19, at 5 p.m. in Kirby B02. Dr. Rachel Ferguson is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Eudaimonia Institute, and a Professor of Managerial Philosophy at the Plaster School of Business and Entrepreneurship, at Lindenwood University.
Congratulations to 2019 graduate Julie Aaron for winning the Frank W. Taussig Award! Her paper “Incentivizing Solar and Wind Energy: The Argument for Increasing the Price of Fossil Fuels in Restructured Markets” was chosen from among submissions across the United States by The Board of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the International Honor Society for Economics. The paper studies…
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