… under intense time pressure and imperfect information. A new paper by Yale Economist W. Bentley MacLeod develops an … slow, deliberative decisions and fast, intuitive ones, a distinction rooted in behavioral science (often described … rely on pattern recognition—doctors quickly identifying a heart attack, judges instantly recognizing a high-risk …

… Neural Networks Solve a Fifty Year Old Problem in Economics … December 11, 2025 | Research Brief Neural Networks Solve a Fifty Year Old Problem in Economics A new method borrows the mathematical engine of AI—the ReLU …

… even when complying with anti-discrimination laws. Imagine a company learns, through customer data analysis, that women tend to have a higher willingness-to-pay than men. The company would like … creates mixed pairs of men and women and charges each pair a range of prices. Because the firm must equalize the overall …

… Brief Research Pinpoints an AI Bubble in the Stock Market A recent study applies state-of-the-art bubble-detection … rooted in fundamentals, or has speculation taken over? A new study by Rerotlhe Basele, Peter Phillips and Shuping … late 2022. Their findings are striking. In the Nasdaq as a whole, they identify a clear speculative bubble from 2017 …

NYT feat. Aleh Tsyvinski: Are We Witnessing the End of Global Trade? … December 5, 2025 | In the News NYT feat. Aleh Tsyvinski: Are We Witnessing the End of Global Trade? View the original article … NYT feat. Aleh Tsyvinski: Are We Witnessing the End of …

… to Royal Society of Canada by Brooke Fox Robert W. Dimand, a visiting scholar at the Cowles Foundation and professor of economics at Brock University, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . Dimand received his … and John Maynard Keynes. Since 2018, Dimand has been a regular visitor to the Cowles Foundation, where he received …

… Yale launches new program to serve as a hub for policy-relevant health economics research … … 2025 | Announcement Yale launches new program to serve as a hub for policy-relevant health economics research … one-fifth of the U.S. economy. Put simply, the U.S. spends a lot of money on health care, but it doesn’t always have a …

… in terms of each person as an individual, rather than a member of a group, reduces this bias. Have you ever failed to achieve … you deserved? Did you lose confidence in your abilities as a result, or did you look for another explanation?  The …

… , funded by the Italian Ministry for Research. MeToD is a research network centered at the University of Calabria, … is designed to serve as an interdisciplinary hub and a key node in a global network of collaborations with leading international …

… The Department of Economics would like to give a heartfelt congratulations to the class of 2022! Below we … Professor. Vitor’s personal website is: https://www.sites.google.com/site/vitorapossebom/ Follow Vitor on … over the business cycle by focusing on collateral and default in an infinite-horizon production economy. He solves …

… On March 14, the Washington Post published a piece on how aerosol’s cooling effect impacts greenhouse warming referencing a research study co-authored by Professor Peter C. B. … greenhouse gas emissions during the last 50 years have had a greater effect on the climate than had been previously …

… When Yale economist Joseph Shapiro was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of … 50 million water-quality readings from 170,000 monitoring sites.  Their paper, “Consequences of the Clean Water Act and … 50 million water-quality readings from 170,000 monitoring sites.  Their paper, “Consequences of the Clean Water Act and …

… 2025 Cowles Summer Conferences To be invited to present a research paper at the Cowles Summer Conferences is no small … investigations, such as combining datasets to present a more accurate picture of deep poverty in the United States. … theory and data, the papers studied the effects of a wide range of trade policies on a rich set of economic …