WP 204 Financing Central Cities
Wang article on fixed-k asymptotic inference About tail properties published in JASA
Wasylenko appointed Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics
Maxwell celebrates graduates, faculty at Commencement Weekend 2017
“For more than 90 years, the way forward for our country has come from the prestigious Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and it has been embodied by Syracuse University professors," said civil rights lawyer Vernon E. Jordan Jr., in his Commencement Address at the Syracuse University All University Commencement.
Rosenthal article on homeownership, housing capital gains and self-employment published in JUE
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Baltagi article on asymptotic power of the sphericity test published in Econometric Reviews
Lee article on adaptive elastic net GMM estimation published in Jour of Business & Econ Statistics
Maxwell faculty, students honored at One University Awards event
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Schwartz discusses student success on With Good Reason Radio
Amy Ellen Schwartz, professor of economics and public administration and international affairs, says we need to have all of the "other stuff" such as school lunch, school buses, school facilities, and after school lined up to help make kids productive, successful people.
Mitra op-ed on Trump's anti-globalisation agenda in The World Financial Review
"The solution to our jobs problem is not trade protection but social protection and subsidised higher education," writes Devashish Mitra, professor of economics.
WP 202 What are the Financial Implications of Public Quality Disclosure?
Flores-Lagunes article on finite sample evidence of IV estimators published in JAE
Mitra op-ed on effects of demonetisation in India in The Quint
The best case scenario for the long-term effects of demonetisation, therefore, is that there is no effect at all," writes Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
Mitra's research on offshoring cited in Huffington Post article
A research paper by Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs, found that “temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry.”
Engelhardt's research cited in NY Times article on retirement
Gary Engelhardt, professor of economics, and his team's research concluded that people who continued to work past retirement age enjoyed an increase in the size of their networks of family and friends of 25 percent. The social networks of retired people, on the other hand, shrank during the five-year period.
Baltagi large factor model with structural instability article published in Journal of Econometrics
Meek, SoldierStrong featured in People and Men's Health
Chris Meek '92 B.A. (PSc/Econ) is the co-founder and Chairman of SoldierStrong, an organization that provides state-of-the-art medical devices and scholarships to troops and returning veterans.
Dutkowsky quoted in DO article about low-wage workers
“The problem of low-wage workers is real,” says Professor of Economics Don Dutkowsky. “It’s a trap for them. These jobs are precious to people, but they may not pay the best and moving around is not easy.”
Dutkowsky weighs in on using credit cards for bad credit in WalletHub
Don Dutkowsky, professor of economics, offers advice on improving credit by using credit cards for bad credit and how to decide between a secured and an unsecured credit card in WalletHub.
Baldagi article on imperfect competitive loans in Africa published in Oxford BES