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Using Data and Algorithms to Make Complex Financial Products Safer: Celebrating Olin Prize Winner Grant Schwartz
Please join us in congratulating Grant Schwartz, recipient of the John M. Olin Prize for Excellence in Economics.
AI unlocks real gains for companies, but how it’s implemented matters
Scores of firms across the country have cited artificial intelligence as a reason for laying off workers, but experts say this misunderstands AI’s utility.
Celebrating faculty retirements
Join us in recognizing the achievements and memories of faculty members who are closing out their careers in Arts & Sciences.
WashU Expert: Research highlights who wins, loses in AI-influenced job market
New research from Washington University in St. Louis examines how workers’ perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) have shaped their response to the emerging technology. The research also highlights how these differing responses could affect long-term career trajectories.
Weidenbaum Center Research Fellow Julie Holland Mortimer installed as James Langenfeld Professor of Industrial Organization
2026 Weidenbaum Center Small Grant Awardees
Martín García-Vázquez, Guanyi Wang, Ismael Mourifié, Ping Wang, and Rudolph Chan are Spring 2026 Weidenbaum Center Small Grant Awardees.
MNI INTERVIEW: US Labor Market 'On Pause' Amid AI Uncertainty
MNI spoke with Wash U economist Yongseok Shin about AI's chilling effect on hiring this year
How large are hysteresis effects? Estimates from a Keynesian growth model
2025 Weidenbaum Center Small Grant Awardees
Congratulations to our Fall 2025 Weidenbaum Center Small Grant Awardees!
StudLife Games go big time
If you happened to be in New York City last weekend, perhaps you saw a Times Square billboard promoting a very WashU pastime: Student Life Games. There, smiling from the 55-by-31-foot digital display, were crossword creators and founders of the newspaper’s games page, recent graduate Alex Nickel (Economics Alumni) and sophomore Rena Cohen.