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article In the News: The Five Best Business books

January 10, 2023

"Naked Economics," the 2002 primer by Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow Charles Wheelan '88, is listed in The Wall Street Journal as the top book on business by Burton Malkiel, author of the classic A Random Walk Down Wall Street.

article "Work and Leisure" study cited

December 21, 2022

The study, 'Work and Leisure in the United States and Europe: Why So Different?' by Prof. Sacerdote and co-authors Alberto Alesina and Edward Glaeser informs a recent Op-ed by the popular columnist Paul Krugman.

article Econ 70 Immersion Collaboration

December 19, 2022

As part of Econ 70, Prof. Comin's immersion experience course in Peru, a team of Dartmouth students consisting of Sunint Bindra, Harrison Hawkins, and Kevin Berghius organized a social impact project in conjunction with Team4Tech.

article WSJ OpEd: The High Price of Covid Learning Loss

November 22, 2022

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.

article MATH 86: MATHEMATICAL FINANCE

November 10, 2022

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.