Economics to use the wait list feature within CAESAR starting in Spring Quarter

Starting in the Spring Quarter, the Economics Department will utilize the wait list feature within CAESAR for any of our undergraduate classes that close out during registration. This replaces the previous policy whereby faculty personally maintained waiting lists. Click here for more information.

Econometric Society North American Summer Meetings to be held at Northwestern in 2012

Northwestern University will be hosting the North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society. The meeting will be from June 28 to July 1, 2012. Information and a link to the call for papers can be found here.

Nemmers Prize Conference to be held in May 2012

Northwestern University announces that it will host a conference associated with the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics on May 11 and 12, 2012. The conference will deal with the political economy of growth and development, on both the theoretical and empirical level. The conference will feature twelve papers, mostly by young scholars, as well as keynote lectures by Alberto Alesina (Harvard University) and Fabrizio Zillibotti (University of Zurich). The conference wll be concurrent with the visit of the current holder of the Nemmers Prize, Elhanan Helpman (pictured), to campus in the Spring Quarter of 2012. Details of the conference can be found here.