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It all started with 2,500 shares of H&R Block. More than four decades and hundreds of student investment managers later, the Caltech Student Investment Fund exceeds, as of November 2020, one million dollars in value. (The fund's initial value was $64,949.62.)

With the coronavirus pandemic upon us, people are readily forming new habits, such as washing their hands more frequently and communicating with colleagues over video platforms like Zoom.

Some people like to take random walks through the woods, while others might stroll through their own neighborhood.

By the early 2000s, it had become clear that markets—places where people have exchanged money and goods for thousands of years—were becoming increasingly complex.

On January 31, The Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences hosted the second Caltech + Finance Symposium...

Professor of economics and mathematics Omer Tamuz has been awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2020.

The decision to buy a lottery ticket, gamble on a stock, or buy an insurance policy often comes down to an assessment of risk. How much do I have to lose or gain?

As the father of two school-age children, Adam Wierman knew from experience that the Pasadena Unified School District's open-enrollment process was not optimal.

To many people, the word “internship” conjures images of anonymous college students engaged in endless coffee runs...

How can economists verify the accuracy of their elegant theories in a dynamic, irrational world? Grounded in mathematics and defined assumptions, economic theories can yield insights into human behavior.