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Upcoming Seminars
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Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
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Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Ask an Economist
The answer is hidden in your question. The company hedges to mitigate risk, to guard against excessive downturns in profit. It “pays” for this risk protection by potentially foregoing some profit. There is of course a risk-return tradeoff.
The question is interesting, provocative, and borderline polemical. Economics is not pure science. In physical science, lab experiments have repeatability and reproducibility.
Recent Working Papers
What Explains Science’s Expanded Reliance On Postdoctoral Researchers?
Rosenbloom, Joshua
No Place Like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science
Winters, John
Entry under placement uncertainty
Singh, Rajesh; Weninger, Quinn; Roy, Sunanda
Agent-Based Computational Economics: Overview and Brief History
Tesfatsion, Leigh
Measuring the American farm size distribution
Lacy, Katherine; Orazem, Peter; Schneekloth, Skyler
Join our Department!
The Department of Economics seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Agricultural Economics. 
View the position and apply on the Iowa State Employment Opportunities page!