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Our faculty study and teach classes in a wide range of topics, from tax policy to macroeconomic modeling to environmental behavior to history and development and beyond.

Today's Williams Econ seminar speaker, Awa Ambra Seck (Harvard Business), shared fascinating new research showing that s...
09/24/2026

Today's Williams Econ seminar speaker, Awa Ambra Seck (Harvard Business), shared fascinating new research showing that service by Moroccan people in the French army laid the groundwork for modern day patterns of migration and international social connection!

So much great work our colleagues are doing! It was fascinating to hear from our colleague Ken Kuttner on American Publi...
09/18/2026

So much great work our colleagues are doing! It was fascinating to hear from our colleague Ken Kuttner on American Public Media's Marketplace - discussing what happens under fiscal dominance, when monetary policymakers defer to what fiscal policymakers want them to do.

When fiscal dominance is happening, monetary policymakers defer to the interests of fiscal policymakers.

New research published by our colleague Matthew Gibson: he shows that employers exert market power in Silicon Valley, us...
09/18/2026

New research published by our colleague Matthew Gibson: he shows that employers exert market power in Silicon Valley, using no-poaching agreements to extract surplus from workers!

Abstract. Adam Smith alleged that employers often secretly combine to reduce labour earnings. This paper examines an important case of such behaviour: no-p

06/24/2026

Williams ECON's Owen Ozier has been elected to the board of the new development economics professional association, IDEA! Learn more here: https://idea.devecon.org/

We had a wonderful time and learned so much at PIER 2026 yesterday - our annual undergraduate economics research confere...
05/03/2026

We had a wonderful time and learned so much at PIER 2026 yesterday - our annual undergraduate economics research conference! We had an inspiring keynote talk by Caitlin Knowles Myers of Middlebury College, an alumni panel moderated by Raquel Jardim '27.5 and featuring Jillian Stallman '16, Helene Hall '18, and William Chen '19, and over a dozen student research presentations. We came away energized by all the great ideas we heard!

We're excited to welcome folks next Sat May 2 to Williams College for PIER 2026 - an undergraduate economics research co...
04/27/2026

We're excited to welcome folks next Sat May 2 to Williams College for PIER 2026 - an undergraduate economics research conference! Featuring student research presentations and a keynote by Caitlin Knowles Myers! Williams students are welcome to drop in to learn about what econ research can look like. See the conference program here: https://sites.google.com/williams.edu/pier/program

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