James E. Howell (Econ MA 1951), a noted economist and formerly the longest-serving faculty member of the Graduate School of Business (GSB), died on March 29 at his home in Palo Alto. He was 91.
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ILLINOIS ECON FREDcast Winners!Once again, ILLINOIS Econ has secured the win for the FREDcast challenge, built into some of our core courses.
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Jiaying Gu (Econ PhD 2015), an assistant professor at UTM in the Department of Economics, was awarded the 2018 Polanyi Prize for her statistical approach of measuring unobserved or unmeasured heterogeneous qualities.- Congratulations to Assistant Professor Marieke Kleemans who has published a new paper on VOX DEV which concentrates on labor market impacts of immigration.
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- The "Lois and Robert Resek Economics Seminar Series" is sponsored by Lois and
- The Economics PhD Job Market Candidates for 2018-2019 are now available.
- 71 new students entered the MSPE Program this fall.
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