Provost Katherine Baicker appointed Booth School of Business professor Erik Hurst as the new director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI), effective immediately. Baicker notified BFI affiliates and senior administrators of the appointment in an announcement on January 5. “I am confident that under Erik’s leadership, BFI will continue its long-standing leadership in.
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The TIAA-CREF Institute has presented its 2010 Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security to Cabot professor of public policy and professor of economics Kenneth S. Rogoff and Carmen M. Reinhart, Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, coauthors of the best-selling book
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The award honors the late Nobel Prize laureate Paul A. Samuelson, Ph.D. ’41, LL.D. ’72, for his achievements in the field of economics and his service as a CREF trustee from 1974 to 1985. The Samuelson Award is given annually in recognition of an outstanding research publication containing ideas that the public and private sectors can use to maintain and improve America’s lifelong financial well-being. A $10,000 prize will be shared by the winners.