economics

Jenny Hawkins If you’ve wondered the difference one year can make, look no further than the travel industry. The summer of 2020 was marked by quarantines, stay-at-home mandates and other restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively putting a pause to travel plans altogether. Now, vacc...

The awards committee for the new Organizational Neuroscience interest group within the Academy of Management has selected a paper by Scott Shane, professor of economics, and David Clingingsmith, associate professor of economics, as the most influential paper published for ONS in 2020. The awards wil...

Year: Rising junior Major: Economics, pre-med Minor: Chemistry Growing up, Case Western Reserve University rising junior Manav Midha found himself torn between focusing his career goals on medicine—having the humbling power to save lives—or economics—understanding how incentives shape our decis...

Year: Rising senior Majors: Economics, political science; pre-law Minor: Business management When Maria Luisa Bates Domenech was considering where to go to college, she was excited about the experiences Case Western Reserve University offered—but worried about the cost. For her, scholarship opport...

The Weatherhead Economic Society will host a discussion on President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in the office during its “Bidenomics” event Thursday, April 22, from 7 to 8 p.m. via Zoom. The discussion will feature: Mark Votruba, associate professor and chair of the Department of Economics;Daniel ...

Susan Helper, professor of economics, has published research in the Journal of Operations, Management on a new approach to sourcing decisions that promotes attention to value. Helper and her co-authors introduce the new approach, “total value contribution” or TVC, as a way to address the disconnect...

Weatherhead School of Management welcomes back Ellen Zentner, chief U.S. economist and managing director at Morgan Stanley, as this year’s David A. Bowers Economic Forecast speaker. Alumni and friends from around the world can join in the Bowers tradition through this year's virtual presentation, he...

Class Year: 2020Area of Study: Dual Major: Environmental Studies and Economics What’s your favorite thing about Case Western Reserve? Aside from the people and their diversity of backgrounds which is rightfully often praised, I think the many opportunities offered at this University are still larg...

Studies show that delaying criminal background checks in the hiring process can boost the job prospects of a worker pool with particularly stubborn rate of unemployment: ex-convicts looking to re-enter the labor market. Now, a newly passed U.S. law—based on research and advocacy by a Case Western ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to the next event in the Edmonds E-Talk Series Wednesday, Nov. 6, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the Frank N. and Jocelyne K. Linsalata Alumni Center’s Foster-Castele Great Hall. This event will largely focus on corporate venture capital,...