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Dr. Chulho Jung, Professor of Economics, has been invited to present a paper at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Canada. The paper, co-authored by Jung and Dr. Jay E. Ryu, Professor of of Political Science at OHIO, addresses a strange puzzle about the effects of Federal Reserve policy. Economic […]

A Brookings Institution report quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in an article headlined “Betsy DeVos and her cone of silence on for-profit colleges.” Not all that long ago, Republicans believed that career programs that used billions of federal dollars to train college students in specific […]

The Minneapolis Star Tribune quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in an article headlined “Can the University of Minnesota get a new president for a bargain?” Vedder and Rita Bornstein, president emeritus of Rollins College in Florida and an author of several books on higher education […]

From Compass Dr. Roy Boyd, Professor of Economics, gives a seminar on “The Mexican Economy in the Era of Trump” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Bentley Hall room 233. The seminar presented by Latin American Studies will give an overview of the themes and ideas […]

The Economics Seminar series presents Dr. Tim Classen discussing “Surviving the Great Recession: Suicides During an Economic Downturn” on Friday, Oct. 19, at 3 p.m. in Bentley Annex 302. Classen is Associate Professor in the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University of Chicago. Abstract: Increasing mortality rates for individuals […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in two stories about higher education affordability. He was quoted in Business Insider for a story about some colleges offering a price-match guarantee headlined “To compete for top students, colleges have borrowed a tactic retailers have been using […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a column in Forbes headlined “Higher Education: Then (1965) And Now.” Tomorrow, I begin my 54th year of teaching a class in American economic history at Ohio University. As I prepared my syllabus for the course, I started reflecting […]