News & Announcements Archive

Congratulations to Our Department Basketball Team

Our Economics Department Intramural Basketball team won the JHU Intramural 3-on-3 Basketball Championship! This is the second time our team won the championship in last 4 years. Here are photos of […]

JHU PhD Students Visit the IMF Headquarters in Washington DC

JHU PhD Students Visit the IMF Headquarters in Washington DC

JHU PhD students visit the IMF Headquarters in Washington DC to learn about career opportunities, hosted by JHU alumni.

New Doctoral Students Welcome Party

New Doctoral Students Welcome Party

The Department of Economics welcomed our incoming class of doctoral students in the annual department celebration on September 16th. The incoming class consists of 9 students.

Congratulations to more of our recent PhDs for defending their dissertations

Congratulations to more of our recent PhDs for defending their dissertations

Congratulations to Andrew Gray, Jianhui Li and Shujaat Khan, who all successfully defended their dissertations!

Congratulations to our recent PhDs for defending their dissertations

Congratulations to our recent PhDs for defending their dissertations

Congratulations to Ding Xuan Ng, Edmund Crawley, Kevin Yuan and Kyung Min Kang, who all successfully defended their dissertations!

Professor Yingyao Hu Appointed as the New Chair of the Department of Economics

Professor Yingyao Hu Appointed as the New Chair of the Department of Economics

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Yingyao Hu will be serving as the next chair of the department beginning July 1st 2019, with a term extending […]

Professor Papageorge, Somasree Dasgupta and Muhammad Husain Promoted

Professor Papageorge, Somasree Dasgupta and Muhammad Husain Promoted

Congratulations to Nick Papageorge, who was promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure after rigorous reviews by the Homewood Academic Council. Congratulations to Somasree Dasgupta and Muhammad Husain, […]

2019 JHU Department of Economics Newsletter

It was another busy year for the Economics Department, with faculty and graduate student research activities, research conferences, seminars, and graduate student awards.

Incoming Assistant Professor Yujung Hwang’s Dissertation Selected as a Winner of the 2019 HCEO Dissertation Prize

Incoming Assistant Professor Yujung Hwang’s Dissertation Selected as a Winner of the 2019 HCEO Dissertation Prize

Incoming Assistant Professor Yujung Hwang’s Dissertation on “General Equilibrium Theory and Empirical Analysis of Immigrants’ Neighborhood Sorting and Social Integration” has been selected as a winner of the 2019 Human […]

2018-2019 Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Awards Announced

Congratulations to Emma Kalish, Shiqi Wang and Xinyu Zhao, the winners of the 2018-2019 Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Awards! These awards are given annually to those graduate students who […]