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On October 17, 2025 the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign will host annual Resek Conference  -  the academic event devoted to addressing an important policy issue in the field of applied economics by using econometric techniques and data.

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Resek Conference 2025 will feature the following papers:

  1. "How to Address Housing Affordability in the United States?" by Tim McQuade, UC - Berkley.
  2. "Computing Optimal Place-Based Transfer with Direct Measurement of Geographic Variation in Marginal Utility of Consumption" by Jesse Gregory, UW-Madison.
  3. "The Short-Run Effects of Congestion Pricing in New York City" by Cody Cook, Yale.

The Resek Conference is made possible by the generous support of Bob and Lois Resek.

Robert Resek was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he worked as a computer programmer on the Illiac, one of the world’s first digital computers, and served as a research assistant performing econometric modeling. As a Bronze Tablet Scholar, he graduated in 1957. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to attend Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he earned a Master’s of Science in 1960 and PhD in 1961, both in economics.

 

Robert Resek was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he worked as a computer programmer on the Illiac, one of the world’s first digital computers, and served as a research assistant performing econometric modeling. As a Bronze Tablet Scholar, he graduated in 1957. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to attend Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he earned a Master’s of Science in 1960 and PhD in 1961, both in economics.