The Department of Economics blog @ Wesleyan University
David Kuenzel and Theo Eicher (University of Washington) published “European Influence and Economic Development” in the May issue of the Canadian Journal of Economics. In the paper, Kuenzel and Eicher investigate how constitutional changes affect countries’ economic development. While there is a large literature that emphasizes the importance of European influence for long-run economic growth, this … Read more
Professor Melanie Khamis and alumna Xiyue Li ’16 have just published “Environment Matters: New Evidence From Mexican Migration” in Applied Economics Letters. ABSTRACT: This article examines the effects of climate-related environmental disasters on migration. Results from the gravity model estimations show that these disasters are a significant determinant of internal Mexican migration. The findings remain robust … Read more
Gary W. Yohe is the Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University, where he has been on the faculty for more than 40 years. He received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Economics from Yale University in 1975. He will retire from Wesleyan in May. You … Read more
Gill Skillman has published “Redistribution and persistent exploitation in an accumulation economy with decreasing marginal impatience,” in the Review of Social Economy (https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2018.1562199). Abstract: A variant of John Roemer’s accumulation economy is studied in which agents have identical payoff functions characterized by decreasing marginal impatience (DMI), such that time discount rates are decreasing in individual wealth levels. … Read more
Karl Boulware has just published “A comment on interest rate pass-through: a non-normal approach” (co-authored with Dong-Yop Oh and Hyejin Lee) in Empirical Economics. Abstract: This paper revisits the question of interest rate pass-through from the federal funds rate to bank and open market rates from the years 1987 to 2015. We employ cointegration tests with improved testing power by using information … Read more
David Kuenzel and Joslyn Barnhardt Trager, from the Government Department, have been awarded Wesleyan’s Carol A. Baker ’81 Memorial prize. The Carol Baker ’81 Memorial Prize was established in the Public Affairs Center in 1987 for the development and recognition of the accomplishments of junior faculty. It is awarded annually by the Dean of the … Read more
On April 7, 2019, the Wesleyan Economics Department celebrated Gary W. Yohe, Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, who will retire at the end of the current academic year. The celebration featured a keynote address by Gary’s former student, Mark Jacobsen, a professor at the University of California San Diego, a panel discussion … Read more
The Wesleyan Economics Department will host a retirement event for our colleague Gary Yohe Sunday, April 7 at 1:30 pm in room 108 of the Usdan University Center. The University community is cordially invited to attend the sessions, which feature a number of Gary’s former students, and a reception following. Session 1: Mark … Read more
On March 25, the Economics Department held a seminar in memory of Michael C. Lovell, Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics, emeritus, who died in December. Speakers included Wesleyan’s Provost and Andrews Professor of Economics, Joyce Jacobsen, Duffy White (Russian Language and Literature. emeritus), and Gil Skillman, Chris Hogendorn, Wendy Rayack, and Richard Grossman from … Read more
Gary Yohe, along with Richard Richels and Henry Jacoby, published “Carbon Dioxide (CO 2 ) is Not Our Grandparents’ Pollutant.” https://www.thescientificnews.com/carbon-dioxide-co2-is-not-our-grandparents-pollutant-by-richard-richels-gary-yohe-and-henry-jacoby/
