economics

Helper also will present economic outlook for manufacturing at CWRU event Two nationally prominent economists associated with Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management will be featured speakers at the 41st annual David A. Bowers Forecast Luncheon on Friday, March 20. U.S. ...

Kelvin Smith Library will host presentations by the 2014 Freedman Fellows: Melvyn Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet, and Justin Gallagher, assistant professor of economics. The fellows will discuss their research and h...

Silvia Prina, associate professor of economics, will lead the next Public Affairs Discussion Group, addressing the topic “Encouraging Savings by the Poor in Developing Countries.” In the uncertainty of poverty in poor countries, saving is not easy. Banking systems in poor countries tend to be poorl...

John A. List, the Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, will present “Using Field Experiments in Economics” at The Howard T. McMyler Memorial Lecture on Friday, Nov. 14, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Ballroom in the Tinkham Veale Un...

America is on course to be surpassed economically by China and India. With a disengaged workforce and a shrinking middle class, the quality of life for the masses, long held as the American Dream, is suffering. But a new book by a team of business management researchers from the Weatherhead School ...

Silvia Prina, associate professor of economics, won two research grants for the project “Delivering Conditional Cash Transfers via Savings Accounts: Default and Mental Accounting Mechanisms.” Prina was invited to present her research at the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Inter-Am...

The Weatherhead Economics Society will host Sandra Pianalto, president of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, on Wednesday, April 9. Pianalto will give a talk titled “Education and Innovation: The Keys to Economic Growth" at 5:30 p.m. in Peter B. Lewis Building, room 258. There will be a Q&A sessio...

The weekly Public Affairs Discussion Group will continue this Friday with a talk titled, “The NSA, Security and Privacy.” Vincent E. McHale, the Marcus A. Hanna Professor of Political Science, will lead the discussion on Friday, Nov. 15, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Dampeer Room at Kelvin Smith L...

Susan Helper, a Case Western Reserve University economics professor who most recently served as a senior economic adviser to the White House, has been appointed the U.S. Department of Commerce’s chief economist. Helper replaces Mark Doms, who was the department’s chief economist from August 2009 un...

Last year, a group of Case Western Reserve University students made headlines with Hole Patch, their innovative approach to fixing potholes using a bag filled with a secret recipe of non-Newtonian fluid. As a co-founder of the award-winning startup, junior Mayank Saksena played a major role in the c...