The awards, to Fabrizio Zilibotti, Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics, and Rohini Pande, Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and director of Yale's Economic Growth Center, were among seven made this year by the global professional organization of economists.

The new members, who have made key contributions in a range of fields, join previously elected fellows in helping to “advance the common good” across the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science.

A senior lecturer at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and Department of Economics, Amand explores stablecoins, international trade, and why the plumbing of global finance is suddenly a policy question.

A new framework put forward by Joel Flynn, Assistant Professor of Economics, and co-authors shows how uncertainty and real world constraints break traditional models and offers a more realistic theory of pricing inflation and productivity.

The AEA celebrated Andrews, Tjalling C. Koopmans Professor of Economics and Professor of Management, and his many fundamental contributions to econometric theory. The Distinguished Fellow awards honor the lifetime contributions of distinguished economists.

What would happen if AI becomes capable of performing essentially all economically valuable work? In a wide-ranging Q&A, Pascual Restrepo, Associate Professor of Economics, dives into how economists view the future of labor markets.

Yale's Zack Cooper—Associate Professor of Public Health, Associate Professor of Economics, and Associate Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies—heads the new Health Care Affordability Lab, launched in March 2026 to leverage academic research to help cut health-care costs.

“The Health Care Affordability Lab is a bridge between academic scholars and policymakers seeking to slow spending growth without harming quality,” said Zack Cooper, director of the new Lab and an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health and in the Department of Economics.

Cooper—Associate Professor of Public Health, Associate Professor of Economics, and Associate Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies—runs the Health Care Affordability Lab.

Yale economist Dirk Bergemann, director of CADMY, was awarded a lead grant from the institution for work with Stephen Morris, visiting professor from MIT. Their project "aims to build a more systematic framework to balance capability and safety, as well as to design institutions and rules of the game around deployed AI systems."