Posts Tagged thought leadership

Randall Stone, a professor of political science and director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, says Putin “has set a trap for himself.”

The laws of supply and demand tell us that when demand spikes, prices do too—but not when price promotions enter the mix. Simon Business School professor Avery Haviv explains why.

On her blog, Simon Business School Dean Sevin Yeltekin addresses six key questions related to the rise of inflation in the post-COVID-19 business world.

For Rochester economist Lisa Kahn, whose research focuses primarily on labor economics, the past year and a half has been nothing short of astonishing. She explains why.

The award recognizes the Rochester astrophysicist’s ‘sustained efforts’ to make science and research broadly accessible through on-air commentary, popular books, Netflix documentaries, Marvel movies, and more.

Rochester’s dean of undergraduate admissions in the College offers advice on which courses to take, and why.

At the committee’s first meeting of 2020, Rochester professor Narayana Kocherlakota expects the Federal Open Market Committee to hold the course on interest rates, as issues from trade wars to impeachment loom.

Rochester professor of economics Narayana Kocherlakota expects to be disappointed this week, as the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee has signaled that it will make no changes to an eight-year-old policy statement for meeting inflation and unemployment goals.

The Great Recession officially lasted through June 2009, with unemployment levels peaking in October of that year. And while unemployment is now the lowest it’s been in the last 50 years, Rochester experts say the recession is still very much with us.

In an essay published in the American Journal of Public Health, associate professor of history and practicing hospitalist Mical Raz writes that apart from extreme cases of imminent physical harm, “suboptimal families are better for children than removal.”