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Seventeen Doctoral Students on the Job Market for 2013 - 2014

25 November 2013 9:24AM The Department of Economics has 17 Ph.D. students who will graduate this year. Each student is available for employment beginning Summer 2014. Specialities of this group include macroeconomics, applied microeconomics, econometrics, microeconomic theory, financial economics, labor economics, development economics, environmental economics, industrial organization, and asset pricing. Please visit our job market candidates page for details on these students.  read more »

Middle East Expert Timur Kuran Sheds Light on Islamic Courts
Middle East Expert Timur Kuran Sheds Light on Islamic Courts

15 November 2013 9:00AM Should Islamic law be reinstituted? In recent years, political movements in the Middle East and other parts of the world have claimed this would improve society. Those on either side of the debate will find Professor Timur Kuran’s ten-volume collection “Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records” an invaluable tool in analyzing if these laws are suitable for a modern world.  “Islamic law has not been practiced for a century and a half,” explained Kuran… read more »

Ph.D. Job Market Candidates
Ph.D. Job Market Candidates

11 November 2013 12:41PM The Department of Economics has 17 Ph.D. students who will graduate this year. Each student is available for employment beginning Summer 2014. Specialities of this group include macroeconomics, applied microeconomics, econometrics, microeconomic theory, financial economics, labor economics, development economics, environmental economics, industrial organization, and asset pricing. Please visit our job market candidates page for details on these students.  read more »

Professor Bansal Mentioned in paper by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

30 October 2013 4:14PM Ravi Bansal, a joint Fuqua and Economics professor, was recently positively mentioned in a paper about the work of the three recent Nobel Prize winners in Economics. The paper written by the Economics Sciences Prize Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences attempts to explain the work of the winning economists. The paper cites Professor Bansal’s paper, “Risks for the long run: A potential resolution of asset pricing puzzles,” which was published in the Journal of Finance in 2004.… read more »

Workshop On China Brings Top Experts To Duke University
Workshop On China Brings Top Experts To Duke University

09 October 2013 10:45AM Leading experts on China interacted with Duke faculty and students last week during a one-day workshop titled “China and International Trade.” The event was jointly sponsored by the Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and the Economic Research Initiative at Duke (ERID). “This is really one of the first workshops to bring well-known and distinguished experts on China together,” said one of the organizers, Professor Daniel Xu of the Department of Economics. “It was of value even for the presenters… read more »

New Professor Uses Econometrics to Analyze Social Interactions
New Professor Uses Econometrics to Analyze Social Interactions

19 September 2013 8:45AM Masten is also enjoying warmer weather than Chicago and being closer to Florida, where he grew up and where most of his family still lives. When he is not researching, he likes reading non-fiction outside of the field of economics and spending time with his wife Amanda and their two cats.  Learn more about Professor Masten at his profile page.  read more »

Finance Program Connects London Alumni With Students
Finance Program Connects London Alumni With Students

06 September 2013 3:49PM For 15 rising juniors, meeting alumni was the highlight of the first Duke in London: Finance program. For six weeks, students took two economics courses, visited select corporations, and interacted with London-based Duke alumni who work in financial markets.  “We had a guest lecturer almost every class from all different areas of finance,” said Nick Yam, an economics major with a finance concentration. “These professionals provided career advice and information about current events that shape… read more »

New MA Program Structure Brings More Opportunities to Students

24 July 2013 4:35PM This summer, the Master’s program at Duke Economics moved to a team-based leadership model as a means to expand services to students and to continue pursuing its mission of being the top Master’s program in economics.  “These changes bring together our commitment to expand faculty involvement and student support, broaden research opportunities, and increase the number of teaching assistantships and other work opportunities for our MA students,” Department of Economics Chair Patrick Bayer explained… read more »

Staff Spotlight: Amy Clayton
Staff Spotlight: Amy Clayton

03 July 2013 11:12AM Amy Clayton joined the Duke Economics staff in October 2012 as the PhD Program Assistant in the Ecoteach office. Amy recently shared about herself in this interview.  Tell us about yourself. I have worked at Duke for almost 14 years. I am currently in school as well, studying at Mt. Olive College and finishing a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. The semesters are divided up into five-week sessions, and I usually go to school one night per week.    … read more »

Three Week Summer Institute Explores History Of Economics
Three Week Summer Institute Explores History Of Economics

03 June 2013 8:57AM The Center for the History of Political Economy will host a three-week Summer Institute from June 2 to June 21. The Institute aims to encourage and prepare faculty and graduate students to integrate ideas from the  history of economics into their courses. It is the second institute sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center’s fourth institute overall.   Scholars from around the country and from many different disciplines will gather at Duke to examine original texts… read more »

Goodner Project is a Good Challenge

20 May 2013 11:02AM The Goodner Equity Research Project just completed its second Spring semester as an economics and finance elective, and continues to be a successful way to engage and prepare students for careers on Wall Street. “The goal of the Goodner Project is to provide Duke students with a real world investing experience, building upon their pre-existing academic foundation,” said Blake Goodner, a founding member of New York hedge fund Bridger Capital and co-teacher of the course. And, according to students, it’s… read more »

2013 Honors Program Research Events
2013 Honors Program Research Events

22 April 2013 10:02AM The Honors Program will hold two events this week to showcase the research of some of our top undergraduates in the Department of Economics from 2013. All faculty and students are welcome to join in these activities to discuss new work on many different topics and to support our youngest researchers.  Tuesday, April 23:  Honors Research Poster Session, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Gothic Reading Room. Refreshments served. Friday, April 26:  Honors Research Symposium, all day, Social Sciences… read more »

History of Political Economy Spring Conference on April 26 - 28

22 April 2013 9:15AM The 2013 HOPE conference will have as its general subject "MIT and the Transformation of American Economics." The archival collections in the Economists Papers Project of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, of MIT economists Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, Franco Modigliani, Evsey Domar, and Franklin Fisher present an unusually rich source for scholars to examine in order to address the topic. However, those collections certainly do not circumscribe the questions that historians… read more »

Nobel Laureate in Economics George Akerlof to Speak April 25
Nobel Laureate in Economics George Akerlof to Speak April 25

22 April 2013 8:26PM The 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, George Akerlof of the University of California at Berkeley, will visit the Department of Economics this week. Akerlof will give a lecture on April 25 at 4:30pm in Gross Hall 107. Economic Research initiatives at Duke (ERID) is one of the sponsors of this event.  Akerlof's talk is titled "Phishing for Phools." His recent research explores connections between individuals’ decision biases and larger economic phenomena. In 2010, Duke Economics Professor… read more »

TCRDC Helps Duke Researchers Like Ph.D. Student Deborah Rho
TCRDC Helps Duke Researchers Like Ph.D. Student Deborah Rho

15 April 2013 8:57AM To most people, the U.S. Census Bureau is simply the government office that, every ten years, counts the number of people who live in the United States. But to many researchers at Duke University, the Census Bureau is a rich source of demographic and economic data, data that make it possible to answer all sorts of important and interesting questions. A lot of the data, however, are confidential, and rightfully so: would you want any member of the public to have the ability to look up your salary or age… read more »

Full-Day Symposium on Neuroeconomics this Friday, April 12

11 April 2013 9:21AM On April 12, a symposium on neuroeconomics will be held on Duke's campus. This symposium is sponsored by Duke's Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory. It is open to all students and the public. The goal of the symposium is to contextualize, both historically and in terms of science studies methodologies, the models of the “brain” and of “economics” that underwrite the recent emergence of “Neuroeconomics.”  The schedule of speakers is as follows: read more »