John Geanakoplos, the James Tobin Professor of Economics, will give two lectures at this year’s  Santa Fe Institute’s Ulam Lectures series. His talks will describe debt in history, in literature, and in economic theory, including his own theory of the …

… salary can then serve as a proxy measure of how many people have inefficient or or poorly allocated jobs, … measurement defined as the rate at which employed people switch jobs divided by the rate at which unemployed people find jobs. Moscarini’s key finding from the talk is …

Professor James Robinson  of University of Chicago will present at the 26th  Kuznets Lecture on April 12, 2016.  The title of his presentation is “Paths of State Building.” Some of Robinson’s best-known work looks at the conditions and institutions that …

The Cowles Foundation is proud to present Princeton University Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs,  Janet Currie , as this year’s speaker for the  Tjalling C. Koopmans Memorial Lecture Series  on April 24-25, 2018. Currie will give two …

Kaivan Munshi, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, will present at this year’s South Asian Studies Annual Indu Bhatt Lecture . His talk, titled “Missing Girls,” explores sex selection through female feticide, infanticide, …