Faculty Honors
Robert Becker and Yoosoon Chang received a 2023 Trustees Teaching Award for their outstanding teaching. The award honors faculty who have had a positive impact on student learning.
Yoosoon Chang was an invited speaker at the Conference on Inequality and Mobility in Seoul, Korea and at the Conference on Drivers and Levers for Energy Consumption in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Professor Chang serves as Advisor to the Organizing Committee of the 2025 World Congress of the Econometric Society which will be held in Seoul, Korea.
Christian Matthes was elected a fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He gave a keynote address at the Workshop in Empirical and Theoretical Macroeconomics at King’s College London.
Faculty Research Funding
Yoosoon Chang is the Principal Investigator of the research project “A Novel Approach to Measuring Intergenerational Mobility” for which the Indiana University Faculty Research Support Program has granted funding for 2023-2024.
Rupal Kamdar has been awarded funding from the Social Sciences Research Funding Program, a highly competitive program administered by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. The funding will support her project “How do Households Respond to Expected Inflation? An Investigation of Transmission Mechanisms.” In this project, Professor Kamdar and her collaborators (Daniela Puzzello, Kelin Lu (IU Econ Ph.D. 2023), and Janet Jiang) will use survey methods to assess how and why households alter their current consumption in light of higher than expected future inflation.
Ruli Xiao and her collaborators have been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This funding will support their research project “WIC Contracts and Infant Formula Brand Sales, Shares, and Prices.”
Faculty News and Accomplishments
Ala Avoyan co-authored “A Road to Efficiency Through Communication and Commitment,” in the American Economic Review, forthcoming. Professor Avoyan also coauthored “Planned vs. Actual Attention,” Management Science, July 2023 and “Paying for Inattention,” Economics Letters, April 2023.
Yoosoon Chang co-authored “Oil Price Volatility, Endogenous Regime Switching, and Inflation Anchoring,” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 38, 820-839, 2023. Professor Chang’s joint work with Steven N. Durlauf, Seunghee Lee (IU Economics Ph.D. 2022), and Joon Y. Park, “A Trajectories-Based Approach to Measuring Intergenerational Mobility,” had several public mentions:
- Ben-Achour, S., & Schroeder, A. (2023, May 24). How your parents’ income throughout your childhood can change your life. Marketplace.
- Gregory, T. (2023, April 24). Q&A: Steven Durlauf on inequality, intergenerational mobility, and leading the Stone Center. The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.
- Kulvicki, M., Alpha, N., Semm, K. Video Featuring Durlauf, S. (2023). The Economics of Childhood. Institute for New Economic Thinking (Episode 3).
Michael Kaganovich, Ruli Xiao, and Morgan Taylor (IU Ph.D. 2020) published an article “Gender Differences in Persistence in a Field of Study: This Isn’t All about Grades” in Journal of Human Capital (2023), 17(4), 503-556.
Ahmad Lashkaripour co-authored with Volodymyr Lugovskyy “Profits, Scale Economies, and the Gains from Trade and Industrial Policy,” American Economic Review, 113 (10), October 2023, pp. 2759-2808.
Dean Lueck co-authored with Gustavo Torrens and Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana (IU Econ Ph.D. 2020), “Campaign Contributions, Interest Groups, Partisan Politics, and Environmental Polarization in the U.S. Congress,” which has been accepted at the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization. He also co-authored with Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana “The Institutional Legacy of the Mexican Rancho System in California,” accepted at the Journal of Law and Economics. Professor Lueck will organize the 5th Young Scholars Symposium on Natural Resource Governance to be held in May 2024 and hosted by the Department of Economics.
Daniela Puzzello co-authored “Is Money Essential? An Experimental Approach,” which was accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy.
Stefan Weiergraeber co-authored “Bidder asymmetries in procurement auctions: Efficiency vs. information – Evidence from railway passenger services,” in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 87, March 2023. Professor Weiergraeber also co-authored “Alert the Inert? Switching Costs and Limited Awareness in Retail Electricity Markets,” in the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 1, February 2023, pp. 74-116.
Ruli Xiao co-authored “Identification of Auction Models Using Order Statistics,” which was accepted for publication in the Journal of Econometrics.