Financial derivatives can be thought of as wagers on uncertain future financial events. This course will take a mathematically rigorous approach to understanding the Black-Scholes-Merton model and its applications to pricing financial derivatives and risk management.
A Wall Street Journal editorial cites a new study co-authored by economics professor Douglas Staiger that found a recent decline in 8th-grade national math assessment tests during the pandemic could represent a 1.6% decline in lifetime earnings if allowed to become permanent.
Congratulations to the 2022 Fed Challenge Team: Kevin Cao, Brandon Chen, Kira Hobson, Joanne Liu, Lewis MacMillan, Ian McGrory, Lake McGreevy, John Petrich, Nicholas Taborsky, Emily Wang.
The Globalization Cluster at Dartmouth College is looking to hire up to two highly skilled and motivated full-time research assistants, to begin in the summer or fall of 2023 and to work for one year on topics in international economics.
Control of Congress still in question, but Democrats avoid a "red wave."
Econ major Holley Cromwell '23 was named Second Team All-Ivy along with teammate Bronwyn Bird. Holley is also Dartmouth's first Ivy League weekly award winner of any kind since 2017 and first Player of the Week honoree since 2013.
Productivity is strong in manufacturing, but it's down elsewhere in the private sector, according to Prof. Comin. He noted that productivity is particularly tricky to gauge for knowledge workers, whose contributions aren't as easy to measure.
Professor Eric W. Zitzewitz was featured in this WalletHub piece about credit cards with no foreign transaction fees.
Come hear from leaders of one of the fastest growing industries of this century, and explore the many opportunities within software. Thursday, November 3, 2022, 2-3:30pm Hayword Room, Hanover Inn; 5:30-7:30pm Reception, South Atrium Engineering & Computer Science Center
The Neukom Fellows program is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral program at Dartmouth that may provide another means of working with or being mentored by faculty in our department. Please see the position announcement at https://neukom.dartmouth.edu/funding/faculty/postdoctoral-fellows
