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Doug McKee, Economics Associate Chair, recently returned from the University College London (UCL), where he gave a talk at UCL’s Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics as part of an education seminar series.  For his presentation , Prof. McKee spoke …

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Mira Frick will join the Economics Department as an assistant professor in July 2017.  Mira is a microeconomic theorist interested in game theory, decision theory, information economics, and behavioral economics. Her recent papers study the effect of an …

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