Brandeis University’s Economics Department has announced the creation of a new Quantitative Economics major, designed to give students a deeper grounding in mathematical and empirical methods.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences for their work explaining how innovation and what economists call “creative destruction” drive ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said. By Eshe ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first term of my master’s degree in economics was an alarming experience. The econometrics was bewildering.

MPAX is a hardware-accelerated, differentiable, batchable, and distributable solver for mathematical programming in JAX, designed to integrate with modern computational and deep learning workflows: ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

Abstract: In this article, the problem of constructing the single-track gray code (STGC) encoders is considered. STGCs are very useful in absolute position encoding for angular sensors which are used ...

Hedge funds will go to great lengths in pursuit of profits, whether it is by counting cars in satellite photos of parking lots or shipping gold across the Atlantic. Building a compiler—a piece of ...

In the past weeks, hundreds of thousands of students earned diplomas from colleges and universities across the country. But for many, the biggest challenge still lies ahead: landing a job in their ...

President Trump on Wednesday announced tariffs on practically every foreign country (and some non-countries), ranging from a 10 percent minimum all the way up to 50 percent. The economic fallout has ...