Archive: News

  • Generative Artificial Intelligence: Powering Domestic Economic Growth, December 2, 2024 1:30 p.m. EST

    As the potential for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) expands, so does the interest in harnessing GenAI in facilitating and stimulating economic growth. In this half-day conference, leading academics and public and private industry experts will consider pressing questions related to GenAI’s potential to support economic development and its implications for the workforce.

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  • Professor Garance Genicot discusses economic mobility in developing countries

    We don’t know much about economic mobility in developing countries compared to the wealthier, data-rich societies which have been the subjects of so much recent research. What does the data tell us so far, and what is important to find out? In this episode of VoxDevTalks, Debraj Ray and Garance Genicot tell Tim Phillips why measuring upward mobility in low- and middle-income countries is both difficult and important, and what their research is revealing about the impact of growth on that mobility.

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  • Professor Bouton co-authors primer on Ranked Choice Voting

    Professor Laurent Bouton co-authored a primer on Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) evaluating the claim that RCV is better than currently used systems at choosing a broadly popular winner and encouraging political moderation. Reviewing existing research, they find support for this claim. However, survey research indicates that US voters are less comfortable with RCV than with other electoral schemes, raising questions about the public acceptance of a broader reform.

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  • The Longevity Imperative: A Conversation with Andrew Scott, LSE 4/23/24 @ 5:30pm

    The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives (2024) by Andrew Scott outlines the fundamental changes needed in our health system, the economy, and the financial sector in order to seize the advantages of longer lives. In this conversation, Georgetown University Professor Carole Roan Gresenz and author Andrew Scott will discuss some of the changes needed and consider how investing in our new longer futures can achieve better outcomes and stimulate economic growth.

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  • New Directions in the Fight Against Poverty: Honoring Martin Ravallion’s Legacy

    In October, Georgetown University and the World Bank hosted a conference: “New Directions in the Fight Against Poverty: Honoring Martin Ravallion’s Legacy”. You can find the recording of the conference is also available.

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  • Economists at Georgetown and other leading Universities Partner to Transform Policy Making Research

    A new partnership between economists at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Princeton and Yale seeks to transform the way economic research informs and shapes policy making.

    “The United Programs for Political Economy Research network, or UPPER, promotes political economy research and training through collaboration across many different political economy centers,” said Laurent Bouton, a co-founder of the organization and an economist in the College of Arts & Sciences.

    This new partnership is enlisting the help of interested economic researchers from across the country to revitalize political economy research through informed policy briefs, a pre-doctoral fellowship program and innovative in-person programming. Already, UPPER has published two policy briefs and welcomed its first cohort of fellows. The most recent brief, which focuses on how to trace and properly disclose corporate money in politics, was published last month. More information here, https://upperesearch.org/.

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  • Our Global Economy: How to Move from Inequality to Shared Prosperity?

    The Georgetown University Global Economic Challenges Network, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles) – Public Policy House will host an academic conference on Thursday, December 14, 2023 from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. EST both online and in-person at the Thon Hotel EU, Brussels (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CET) entitled, “Our Global Economy: How to Move from Inequality to Shared Prosperity?”

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  • Charlie Wang (SFS-IECO 22) has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.

    Charlie Wang, who graduated in 2022 as an International Economics major in SFS, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. He will pursue a DPhil (PhD) in Information, Communications and the Social Sc

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  • Tianshi Mu awarded the 2024 Razin Prize

    Congratulations to Georgetown University Economics PhD student, Tianshi Mu, who was awarded the 2024 Razin Prize. Tianshi Mu’s paper entitled “The Dynamic Effects of Renewable Subsidies in the Gr

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  • Updated Ranking of the Undergraduate Program

    Forbes' 2023 ranking of more than 500 US Colleges puts Georgetown University at number 20. A full list of rankings and the methodology can be found here: https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/

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