Department of Economics

Arts & Sciences | Washington University in St. Louis



  • APRIL 13 | Financial Frictions and Export Dynamics in Large Devaluations (w/ D. Kohn and M. Szkup)

    Fernando Leibovici (York University)

    Seigle 348 @ 4:00 pm
  • APRIL 15 | Informal Seminar in Economic Theory (ISET): TBA

    Mushegh Harutyunyan (WUSTL)

    Seigle 348 @ 12:00 pm
  • APRIL 18 | Building Strategic Self-Control

    Angela Lee Duckworth (University of Pennsylvania)

    Seigle 348 @ 12:00 pm
  • APRIL 19 | TBA

    Takuro Yamashita (Toulouse School of Economics)

    Seigle 304 @ 4:00 pm

Recent Publications

"Job Flexibility Helps Poor People Move to the Middle Class" - article featuring George-Levi Gayle & Limor Golan

"Promotion, Turnover, and Compensation in the Executive Labor Market" - Econometrica by George-Levi Gayle, Limor Golan, and Robert A. Miller

"A Question of Utility" - The Economist article featuring Michele Boldrin & David Levine

"Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations" - Rodolfo Manuelli & Ananth Seshadri

Michele Boldrin and David Levine discuss patents on NPR Planet Money. July 9, 2014

"An Elusive Jackpot" - New York Times article featuring George Levi-Gayle

"Random Choice as Behavioral Optimization - Econometrica" by Gul, Faruk, Paulo Natenzon, and Wolfgang Pesendorfer


Featured Blogs: Against Monopoly - Noise From Amerika - Greek Economists for Reform - Foco Económico

October 7, 2015

Job Market Candidates


November 30, 2015

Remembrance of Douglass North

1920-2015


November 24, 2015

Douglass North

Douglass North 95, 1993 Nobel Prize Laureate and Professor Emeritus, died on Monday, November 23rd after an illness of several weeks. Douglass joined the Department of Economics in 1983.


August 24, 2015

Gary Hansen joins Economics as the 2016 Sam B. Cook Visiting Professor of Economics