Janna Lu

Lu, Janna Z. 2024. “Don’t Forget Institutions: A Review Essay of Economics of Prosperity by Shawn Ritenour.” Review of Austrian Economics.

Lu, Janna Z. 2021. “Effects of Partial Scholarships for Education Majors.” Grove City College Journal of Law & Public Policy 12: 145–70.

Select Working Papers

"Cradle of Organized Firefighting"

"Improving Language Model Forecasting"

"Large Language Models have a Theory of the World"

“Auction Theory with Large Language Models"

“Measuring the Incentives of Emissions Reporting” (co-authored with Ben Bauer)

Awards and Fellowships

Emergent Ventures, 2024

Special Category Winner, AI Agents Hackathon, Lablab and MindsDB, 2024

Bradley Fellowship, Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundation, 2023-2024

Graduate Summer Fellow, American Institute of Economic Research (AIER), 2023

Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship, Mercatus Center, 2023

Graduate Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2022-

Ph.D. Fellowship, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2022-

Participant, Summer Honors Program, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 2022

Fellow, Don Lavoie Fellowship Program, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2021

Runner-up, Paper of the Year (Social Sciences), Omicron Delta Kappa (OΔK), Grove City College, 2020

Conferences

Public Choice Society 61st Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX: March 2024. “Cradle of Firefighting.”

SEA 93rd Meeting, New Orleans, LA: November 2023. “Auctions, Bargaining, and Price Formation”

APEE 47th Meeting, Cancun, Mexico: April 2023. “Cradle of Organized Firefighting”

Markets and Society Conference, Vienna, VA: October 2022. “Cradle of Organized Firefighting”

Austrian Student Scholars Conference, Grove City, PA: February 2022. “Cradle of Organized Firefighting,” “Ownership of Fire Protection Services”

Selected Popular Writings