How Big Data Is Changing Economies

“Big data” has quickly become a buzzword, but it encapsulates the dramatic rise of statistical and computational technology that allows for collection and analysis of data on everything from industrial systems to our online interactions. Big data is transforming how…

A Handbook of Macroeconomics Volume 2

This conference and a companion conference held at the Hoover Institution on April 9–11, 2015 bring together a wide range of distinguished macro economists to present their ideas and proposed contributions to the new Handbook of Macroeconomics, which will be…

The Third Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications

AMMA focused on the economic, algorithmic, technical, and practical issues that arise in developing and deploying market mechanisms. This includes, but is not limited to, theoretical and empirical…

Flows of Goods and Technologies in the Global Economy

Market Failures and Public Policy

A Nobel lecture from Jean Tirole

Jean Tirole, the 2014 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, spoke to students about how breakthroughs in industrial organization, game theory, and information economics led him…

Speculation, Trading and Bubbles

Friedman Forum with José Scheinkman

Visiting scholar José Scheinkman, currently the Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics at Columbia University and the Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton…

Exploring the Price of Policy Uncertainty

Political conflict and fiscal crises in the United States and Europe have spurred concerns about policy-related uncertainty and its economic effects. Recent uncertainty-generating episodes in the United States include the partisan battles over the Bush-era…

Consequences of Uncertainty

Lars Hansen speaks to alumni in Washington, D.C.

How do investors, consumers, and enterprises cope with uncertainty about the economic future? How do researchers and policy makers incorporate this uncertainty into their…

The Power of the Street: Evidence from the Arab Spring

Becker Brown Bag with Tarek Hassan

During Egypt’s Arab Spring, unprecedented popular mobilization and protests brought down Hosni Mubarak’s government and ushered in an era of competition…