Managing his own business and helping clients as a financial advisor, Naveen Sharma (BA '91, economics) takes complex information and makes it easier to understand, a skill he honed in his time as a student in CLA.
The Yrjö Jahnsson Award is equivalent to the John Bates Clark Medal given in the US. The John Bates Clark Medal is widely regarded as one of the field’s most prestigious awards...second only to the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Donors Doug and Jane Gorence often find themselves thinking about the future, asking questions such as “How can I continue to give?” and “How can we help prepare students to make lasting change in society?” Read on to find out why Doug and Jane Gorence choose to go above and beyond and donate to the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts.
The Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota has for decades been a recognized world leader in advancing economic science and producing its future leaders. “Minnesota Economics” is known throughout the profession as combining theoretical rigor and the careful use of data to address economic questions.
McFadden’s intellectual contributions are many, but his most famous contribution was how to statistically handle discrete choices. Put very simply, before McFadden’s work, the profession used theory based on the assumption that an individual’s “choice set” was continuous, as in, for example, the amount of gasoline a driver uses in a month.
Adway De, a graduate student in the Department of Economics, is switching up the way he teaches undergraduate economics students. He is bringing his involvement with UMN Energy Club into the classroom and seeing that the benefits certainly outweigh the costs.
Amy Ko recently completed her academic journey with the University of Minnesota and embarked on her professional journey with them, too. Thanks to her impressive education, passion for data science, and determination for success, Ko is able to bring valuable experience and enthusiasm for analytics to her new career.
Joaquin Garcia-Cabo came to the US with a prestigious master’s degree and an interest in macro and labor economics. As he completes his PhD program, his job market paper introduces a new model to understand the effects of firing costs on human capital accumulation, job cyclicality, and the persistence of job loss for Spanish workers. His research can be used to analyze the costs and benefits of future policies.
When Mons Chan started out as an undergraduate economics major, he didn’t want to just learn, he wanted to learn how to get things done. Economics, he came to realize, would give him the tools to contribute to positive change in the world. Now, as he wraps up the final year of his PhD program, Mons’ research on trade patterns is producing detailed information that policymakers will be able to use to ensure more people are better off.
Economic growth has transformed the planet with both positive (improved material standards of living) and negative impacts (degradation of the environment including air and water pollution...
Thursday, October 4, 2018 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Location: Humphrey Forum Humphrey School of Public Affairs The “Principles & Priorities” exercise, developed by the non-partisan Concord...
