Daniel Xu, ’07 Economics, received The Robert E. Lucas Jr. Prize

Daniel Xu, ’07 Economics, received The Robert E. Lucas Jr. Prize awarded biannually for the most interesting paper in the area of Dynamic Economics published in the Journal of Political Economy in the preceding two years. The prize was established in 2016 on the occasion of the celebration of Lucas’s seminal contributions to economics and his Phoenix Prize award.

Papers published between July 2022 and June 2024 were considered for the fifth prize, which has been awarded to Chris Edmond, Virgiliu Midrigan, and Daniel Xu for “How Costly are Markups?” (Journal of Political Economy 131 [7]: 1619–1675). (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe/lucas-prize)