Pro-fessors
This graduate of Rice University currently serves as chair of the economics department
Who is Zack Miller?
This index of 30 publicly-traded companies is one of the oldest stock market indices
This problem may be suspected in an instrumental variable regression when the first-stage F-statistic is low, say less than 10
What is a weak instrument?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Referred to as the father of economics, this philosopher is known for his work "The Wealth of Nations"
Who is Adam Smith?
Renowned econometrician Jeffrey Wooldridge served as this professor's committee chair at Michigan State University
Who is Alyssa Carlson?
A company with a market cap of $2B to $10B generally falls under this category of firm sizes
What is a mid-cap?
In a non-compliance LATE framework, individuals fall under always-takers, never-takers, compliers, and this group, which is assumed to not exist in the population
Who are defiers?
Mizzou football's 2023 season opener was against this Missouri Valley Conference team, fittingly the host's alma matter
What is the University of South Dakota?
Milton Friedman and George Stigler are considered the leading figures of this school of thought
What is Chicago?
Technically located in La Jolla, both economics professors whose last names start with the letter "K" earned their PhDs from this university
What is University of California, San Diego?
What is high?
This instrumental variable assumption states the instrument Z affects the dependent variable Y only through its effect on the endogenous independent variable X
What is the exclusion restriction?
This is the last downstream dam built on the Missouri River, just 5 miles west of the host's hometown
What is Gavin's Point?
The first Nobel prize in economics was awarded to this woman
Who is Elinor Ostrom?
Eric Parsons, George Chikhladze, and Tabitha Chikhladze all earned MAs in economics from Mizzou, but so did this professor back in 2002
Who is Chao Gu?
Nicknamed the Oracle of Omaha, this famous stock-picker just retired as CEO from Berkshire-Hathaway in 2025
Who is Warren Buffet?
In a regression discontinuity framework, researchers face this trade-off when choosing which bandwidth to use around the cutoff
What is bias-efficiency?
The small town of Guthrie, Missouri is located in this county
What is Callaway?
The seminal minimum wage paper examining fast food workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania was written by this Princeton pair
Who are Card and Krueger?
Brittany Street's first published work, surprisingly not in the economics of crime space, appeared in this journal
What is Economics of Education Review?
This metric is used to discount a firm's cash flows by comparing its size of debt and cost of debt, as well as size of equity and cost of equity
What is weighted average cost of capital?
In judge IV designs, this assumption can fail if Judge A is more likely than Judge B to assign treatment for some defendants, but less likely for others
What is monotonicity?
This Kansas City Royals pitcher, whose last name just so happens to be the host's first name, started in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series
Who is Jeremy Guthrie?
Who is Andrei Shleifer?