Will Rafey is a PhD candidate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. His research foci include market design and structural industrial organization. He is particularly...

Thomas Krussig is a third year PhD student in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include industrial organization and finance, and he...

Sam Norris is a candidate in the economics department at Northwestern University. His research focus is applied microeconomics, specifically crime, education, and development. With the goal of answering policy-relevant questions...

I had very high expectations coming in, but day one has already exceeded what I was hoping for . . . The two speakers so far nicely complimented one another – they were two brilliant people coming from opposite perspectives. Kevin Murphy dove into the theoretical details of the algebra, while Steve Levitt focused on intuitiveness and what lies behind the decisions people make.

“I sat in on Kevin Murphy’s lecture on elasticity, and it blew my mind. It was the most eye-opening, world-changing 15 minutes I had experienced in my undergraduate career.”

As a Harvard graduate student, Jesse Shapiro had a unique opportunity to immerse himself in University of Chicago economic rigor and practice, working on his research with leading price...

As a Harvard graduate student, Jesse Shapiro had a unique opportunity to immerse himself in University of Chicago economic rigor and practice, working on his research with leading price...

During the Great Recession of 2008, the federal government tried to stoke the sputtering economy by lowering the cost of borrowing for banks. One aim of the policy was...

Levitt argues that even a coin flip is better than waffling on big decisions