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Professor Francesca Molinari was recently elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society. The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. The Society publishes Econometrica, Quantitative Economics, and Theoretical Economics journals. They also have a publication...
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Their 150 songs are currently being used by teachers in 25 schools in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
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"The pandemic has cast a shadow over the global economy," writes Kaushik Basu, professor of Economics, in this opinion article in CGTN. "So far, the two worst-performing economies in the second quarter of 2020 (April-June) were Peru and India, where GDP shrank by 30.2 percent and 23.9 percent, respectively, in year-on-year terms. These record...
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The College is able to bestow these honors to outstanding faculty thanks to generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends.
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Doug McKee, senior lecturer in economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and George Orlov, an Active Learning Initiative postdoctoral fellow in economics, have received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the long-term effects of active learning and online instruction.
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Jose Maria Tapia (‘20) has been working as a Hatfield Research Assistant for Professor Kaushik Basu this summer on a project exploring the effects of various types of COVID-19 lockdowns on the economy.Can you describe the work you’ve been doing on the project so far?The research question is a work in progress. We’ve been gathering data on...
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The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.
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Machine learning can assess the effectiveness of mathematical tools used to predict the movements of financial markets, according to new Cornell research based on the largest dataset ever used in this area.
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"As the covid-19 pandemic rages on, our understanding of it is improving," writes Kaushik Basu, professor of Economics, in this opinion article in LiveMint. "Through a combination of epidemiology and physics—including knowledge of the virus’s character and how aerosols float in the air—we are learning more about how the microbe infects new hosts...
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Douglas Miller, a professor in Policy Analysis and Management and the College of Human Ecology/Economics, discusses luck and uncertainty as it relates to economists in a recent article on the Cornell Research website.“When we look at an estimate,” Miller says in the piece, “we want to know how large a role chance or luck may have played in...
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