Yale Department of Economics

We are thrilled to host the 2024 ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Economics + Computation (EC'24), featuring 200+ papers that push the frontiers of research in areas like market design, machine learning, LLMs, & information design. Hosted by the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale, the event features technical paper presentations, workshops, & plenary talks by Mikhail (Misha) Belkin (UC San Diego), Federico Echenique (University of California, Berkeley), Adam Kalai (OpenAI), and Garrett van Ryzin (Amazon) With Yale University hosting this year’s conference, many Yale faculty members are helping lead and coordinate the event, including Dirk Bergemann serving as the General Chair, as well as Yang Cai and VAHIDEH MANSHADI (Yale School of Management) serving as the Local Chairs. Learn more, and see the full program here: https://lnkd.in/etpgQY6t

Widespread shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic made clear the importance — and fragility — of global supply chains. The Supply Chain Research Alliance, co-led by economists at Yale’s Tobin Center, is working to make these critical networks more efficient and resilient. #Yale

Who pays for rising health care prices? How can hospital mergers lead to job loss? In NEW research by Zack Cooper (Yale Tobin Center for Economic Policy) and coauthors Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Stuart Craig, Lev Klarnet, Ithai Lurie, & Corbin Miller, they explore hospital mergers, rising health care prices, and job loss. Read the research summary and key facts here: https://lnkd.in/eeyxZHEP National Bureau of Economic Research paper here: https://lnkd.in/edtfxmvp WSJ coverage here (by Melanie Evans, Andrew Mollica, & Josh Ulick): https://lnkd.in/eqw_t_qV

What are the economic consequences of rising health spending? The Wall Street Journal covers new research by the Tobin Center's Zack Cooper and coauthors Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Stuart Craig, Lev Klarnet, Ithai Lurie, & Corbin Miller, out today in the National Bureau of Economic Research: "Who Pays For Rising Health Care Prices? Evidence from Hospital Mergers" Read the research here: https://lnkd.in/eeyxZHEP Read the WSJ coverage here: https://lnkd.in/eqw_t_qV

📣 📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 📣 The 2024 Firms, Trade, & Development Conference will take place October 24-25 at Yale University, co-hosted by the Yale Economic Growth Center and International Growth Centre Submit by August 16 here: https://lnkd.in/ersRrZCV

Excited to share highlights from the first annual Yale University Supply Chain Workshop at the Yale Tobin Center for Economic Policy. Supply chains are like a giant iceberg: They mostly sit under the surface, undetected and overlooked. This conference shined a spotlight on the academic fields of inquiry, including the roots of supply supply chain shortages during COVID, as well as practical solutions. Looking forward to continuing this collaboration between academia and business in supply chain! https://lnkd.in/eZ6fEZK9

How can we make supply chains more efficient and resilient? What role can business and academia play to improve supply chains? During a recent conference hosted by Yale University’s Tobin Center and Cowles Foundation, and organized by Alex Tsyvinski (Yale Department of Economics) and Ernest Liu (Princeton Economics), experts from academia and the business world discussed how research can support efforts to predict, avoid, and manage supply chain disruptions. The conference featured a keynote by Benjamin Gordon ’95, managing partner and CEO of Cambridge Capital LLC and a leading advisor to, and investor in, supply chain companies. During the conference, Tsyvinski, Liu, and Gordon spoke to Yale News about the importance of supply chains to the global economy and how business and academia can join forces to strengthen them. The scholars also offered a glimpse of their platform monitoring supply chain activity. Read the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/e5gt8Q6y

📣 This Monday, June 17 at 12 ET 📣 Zack Cooper is joining KFF's Health Wonk Shop for a discussion on site-neutral payments. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/eYZAV2hE

📣 #CallForPapers 📣 Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2024 Submission deadline: Aug 16 EGC and the International Growth Centre will co-host the annual #FirmsTradeDev conference in person at Yale University on October 24-25, 2024. Papers on the theme of firms, trade, and development are welcomed for consideration. The Academic Committee for the event is: David Atkin (MIT Department of Economics), Lauren Falcao Bergquist (EGC, Yale Department of Economics, Jackson School of Global Affairs Yale University), Stefano Caria (University of Warwick), Mayara Felix (EGC, Yale Department of Economics), Namrata Kala (MIT Sloan School of Management), Kanika Mahajan (Ashoka University), Isabela Manelici (The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)), Meredith Startz (Dartmouth College),  Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University). Information and submission link ⬇️

What's behind the buzz about site-neutral payments? This Monday, June 17 at Noon ET, Zack Cooper is joining KFF's Health Wonk Shop for a 45-minute discussion on the concept of site-neutral payments, including why it has become an issue for policymakers and private payers like insurers and employers, how Medicare payments currently work, how various proposals would change the law, and the potential impact of those changes. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eDTP9bY9