- Job Market Candidates 2009-2010
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Five of our outstanding Ph.D. students are now on the job market. Jason Blevins, Roberto Pancrazi, Nurgul Ukueva, Marija Vukotic and Sarah Zubairy are scheduled to graduate in May 2010. In the Job Market Candidates area, you'll find information on all five candidates along with their curriculum vitaes, fields...
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- Andrew Patton: Modeling the Markets
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Durham, NC -- As an ordinary guy making a living, Andrew Patton is as dismayed as the next person about the downturn in the financial markets. But as an economist whose research investigates the behavior of stock markets, he sees the past year’s drop in the Dow Jones...
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- Study Suggests Why Parents Stricter With Older Children
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Professor Joe Hotz discusses his recent research on risky behavior and adolescents. Duke Today featured a video presentation of the work. The paper, "Games Parents and Adolescents Play" appeared in the April 2008 issue of the Economic Journal.Full story.
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- What would Keynes do?
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In a recent video segment, Professor Roy Weintraub says the late British economist John Maynard Keynes would support fiscal stimulus plans.
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- Professor Emma Rasiel named one of Newsweek's great professors
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Newsweek recently named Emma Rasiel one of four “great” teachers in America’s colleges and universities. “Tough love” is how the magazine described her style. “Students have been told for 15 or 16 years that they can get partial credit, but in the real world people don’t get partial...
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