This is the fifth annual Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice. Scholars from around the world discuss recent work on issues involving the economics of crime and the criminal justice system. Presenting a series of studies that address pressing policy issues, long-standing problems in...

On May 2-3, 2024, the Becker Friedman Institute’s Health Economics Initiative’s annual conference will bring together faculty, research professionals, and students to present the latest research on all topics in health economics. Joining the 2024 Health Economics Initiative Conference as the...

Astonishing recent progress in numerical optimization presents many opportunities and challenges for modern data analysis and scientific inference. Econometrics and statistics offer a valuable angle from which to study optimization problems and, conversely, operations research offers a...

Topics: - General Equilibrium with Climate Change; - Market Design and Walrasian Equilibrium; - Predicting Choice from Information Costs; - Large Auctions; - Structure of Informationally Robust Optimal Auctions; - Minskyite Model of Financial Crises; - Panics and Prices; - Interactions Across...

This conference has been cancelled.