Now live: Episode 28 of The Work Goes On, hosted by Orley Ashenfelter.

Catch up on all the conversations with leaders in the field of industrial relations here: bit.ly/3koE05i

After the passing of Princeton Professor Frank Graham in 1949, International Economics Section established the annual Graham Lecture in his memory. Since then, ten Nobel Laureates have been among those invited to deliver the lecture. bit.ly/4bp1JXT

'I think we may be on the tip of a re-emerging unionization, even though there are alternatives to unionization.”

UCLA's Lewin talks to Orley Ashenfelter about the importance of employee voice, and what's next for companies like Amazon and Starbucks. bit.ly/3QCQEKD

Now forthcoming in Econometrica from John Grigsby ( #PrincetonU ) and co-authors: A study of application approval, search behavior, and pricing in markets for mortgages, consumer credit, insurance, and more.
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'And if it were just executives, that would be one thing, but the franchisors...and franchisees, the restaurants and so forth, they have noncompete agreements for their cooks. I mean, come on, it's just outrageous.”

UCLA's David Lewin joins the podcast. bit.ly/3QCQEKD

Watch: MIT Sloan School of Management's Luis Videgaray on the race to regulate AI, via Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance bcf.princeton.edu/events/luis-vi…

Great to see this forthcoming! This is an opportune moment to tell you all about this paper about application approval, search behavior and pricing in markets with adverse selection (e.g. markets for mortgages/consumer credit/insurance and arguably labor markets) 🧵👇

The International Economics Section Graham Lecture was established in 1949 to honor Frank Graham.

Graham was a Princeton professor from 1921 to 1949 and was the second Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance. bit.ly/4bp1JXT

Few people I know are as brilliant and as humble as Faruk Gul whose birthday was celebrated this weekend at a conference in Princeton. A program full of wonderful presentations by his students was testimony to his skills as a mentor.

How did the German bombing of London during WWII contribute to neighborhood differences—in terms of property prices and socioeconomic outcomes—across neighborhoods in London today? bit.ly/3JQ029T

On 4/29, students from Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance and Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy &Finance made a trip to Washington, D.C. They met with alumni at high levels of government and explored diverse opportunities!

Learn more about their experience here: bit.ly/3y4Exje

It was a pleasure to host Marc Melitz for the 2024 International Economics Section Graham Lecture. bit.ly/4bp1JXT

From Stephen Redding & Daniel Sturm: Findings on neighborhood effects using a newly-digitized dataset of building-level wartime destruction in London before and after WWII. bit.ly/3JQ029T

Every year, the Economics Department hosts a lecture in honor of Uwe Reinhardt, longtime Princeton professor and a world-renowned authority on health care. Reinhardt passed away in 2017.

Watch this year's lecture: bit.ly/49AH1mz

A recent ICIJ investigation highlights Owen Zidar’s collaboration with the Treasury & the IRS to better understand how the ultrawealthy use intricate webs of companies and trusts to hide their income from auditors. bit.ly/3xoOibH

'The authors also show that other countries might gain or lose from rising frictions between China and the United States, depending on their positioning in the global trade and capital allocation networks.' bit.ly/3VSeQfL

“It was only through meeting very good mentors in the field that I learned social justice questions can be studied with economics, and that what you get exposed to in introductory microeconomics isn’t actually what it’s like to be an economist.” bit.ly/3OPtb8h

In his presidential address at the annual meetings of the American Finance Association, Princeton University Professor Markus Brunnermeier spoke about financial crises as 'resilience killers.'

Watch the full speech here: bit.ly/47yLXHD

'Find interesting, that you enjoy working on, and that are good matches to your skillset. And trust your instincts, because nobody is in as good of a position to judge those aspects of a project as you.” bit.ly/42IIsNH

Submission to the Stony Brook game theory conference, organized this year by Federico Echenique and Leeat Yariv, is open until 5/1. The deadline is coming soon!
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