Yoshinori Kurokawa (Tsukuba University) and Toshiyuki Matsuura (Keio University) have been awarded the 2018 Oda Prize from the Japan Society of International Economics.

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.

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.

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.