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Economics Department News
Oct 15, 2012 :: Economics Congratulates Their Colleague Alvin Roth on Receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics!
At 3:30am Monday morning Al Roth received THE CALL from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm at his home at Stanford University. He was notified that he shared this year’s Nobel Prize with Lloyd Shapley from UCLA. They were awarded the Prize for their research in designing market institutions that match different parties within the market as efficiently as possible. Al's work has connected this branch of Game Theory to real-world applications such as the assignment of medical residents to hospitals, the design of school choice mechanisms is major cities, and the creation of paired donor kidney exchanges. The Department of Economics congratulates Al on being named a NOBEL Prize winner. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/october/nobel-economics-roth-101512.html
left to right: Al Roth, Dan Fragiadakis, Peter Troyan, Michael Ostrovsky, Fuhito Kojima
Oct 14, 2012 :: Congratulations to newly promoted Associate Professor Ran Abramitzky!
Economics voted on October 24th to promote Ran Abramitzky to tenured Associate Professor.
Oct 14, 2012 :: Paul Milgrom elected Vice-President of the American Economic Association.
Congratulations to Paul Milgrom for being elected to one of two Vice-President positions at the AEA. He will take office in 2013. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/ At the same session Jonathan Levin was elected to the Executive Committee of the AEA.
Oct 11, 2012 :: International Atlantic Economic Society awards Economics graduate, Colin Gray, first place for his Honors Thesis.
Congratulations to Colin Gray, Stanford University class of 2012 with honors in economics, who took first prize in the 2012 Best Undergraduate Paper competition of the International Atlantic Economic Society for his paper entitled “Responding to Monetary Superpower: Investigating the Behavioral Spillovers of U.S. Monetary Policy.”, which was based on his Stanford honors thesis. Professor John Taylor, his thesis advisor, praised Colin's use of state of the art international models with forward looking agents to get very topical and practical empirical results. Look for Colin Gray's paper to be published in an upcoming issue of “Atlantic Economic Journal" In addition to this award, Colin was the recipient of the 2012 Stanford University Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for his thesis.
Sep 08, 2012 :: Puzzling Over the Kibbutz Conundrum: In a world of capitalism, how do egalitarian principles survive?
Ran Abramitzky has a featured article in the online Stanford Magazine. http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=55972
