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Nov 11 2019

Nick Bloom's economic uncertainty index forebodes sluggish growth

In 2016, IRiSS affiliate and Professor of Economics Nick Bloom released the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index, providing a quantitative approximation of economic uncertainty for 24 countries with...

Oct 28 2019

NSF's head of the Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences visits IRiSS

Arthur "Skip" Lupia, head the NSF's Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences, traveled to IRiSS to speak on the national social science research funding landscape. Skip provided...

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