DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

The Metzger family’s efforts to cut down on household waste became a multicity recycling operation.

From selling six of his own companies to serving as president of Tesla and COO of Lyft, Jon McNeill, now CEO of DVx Ventures, shares his journey as an entrepreneur and reveals the secrets to his success

Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce

The Economics Department is saddened to share that Dr. Marc Nerlove has recently passed away at the age of 90. Dr. Nerlove was professor of Economics at Northwestern from 1974 through 1982. His many accolades include the John Bates Clark Award in 1969, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Distinguished Fellow of the American Economics Association, and Past President of the Econometric Society. His memorial page is linked from the University of Maryland Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, where he was most recently an emeritus faculty member.

Check out our latest newsletter for updates from the department and a reflection on the 2023-24 academic year.

This year’s report, compiled by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), was co-written by IPR economist Kirabo Jackson. He was appointed by President Joe Biden as a senior member of the CEA last August. The CEA sits within the Executive Office and delivers research-driven recommendations on matters of national and international economic policy to the president.

Manny Buendia (‘23) reflects on his time at Northwestern, including the impact of his courses in the Economics Department with Professors Sarah Hernandez and Mark Witte.

"Tevlin is the most important person in U.S. economics that you have probably never heard of."

Laura Doval receives the inaugural Arrow Prize (with co-author Vasiliki Skreta) for the best theory paper published in Econometrica in the preceding four years and the 2024 TE Best Paper Prize for the best paper published in TE in the preceding two years.