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Professor Ball’s book selected as one of the “Best books of 2018: Economics” by the Financial Times

Professor Ball’s book selected as one of the “Best books of 2018: Economics” by the Financial Times

Professor Laurence Ball’s book – “The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster” was selected as one of the “Best books of 2018: Economics” by […]

JHU PhD student Julien Acalin’s column featured in VoxEu

JHU PhD student Julien Acalin’s column featured in VoxEu

Turning national growth-indexed bonds into European assets: A proposal to strengthen the euro area The idea of growth-indexed bonds has recently regained momentum in policy circles, but research has shown […]

Nicholas Papageorge’s Work (coauthored with JHU alumnus Kevin Thom) featured in the Washington Post

Nicholas Papageorge’s Work (coauthored with JHU alumnus Kevin Thom) featured in the Washington Post

Nicholas Papageorge’s Work (coauthored with JHU alumnus Kevin Thom) that brings genetic analysis into economics was featured in the Washington Post.

Eighth Simon Newcomb Lecture – October 10, 2018

Eighth Simon Newcomb Lecture – October 10, 2018

Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, the E.C. McCarty Centennial Professor of Economics at University of Texas at Austin, will deliver the eighth Simon Newcomb Lecture entitled “Models of Numbers: Pragmatics and Economic […]

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 10th. The incoming class consists of 14 students from the United States […]

The Department Welcomes New Faculty for 2018-2019

The Department Welcomes New Faculty for 2018-2019

Marcelo Fernandez, an expert on market and mechanism design, will join us as an Assistant Professor in September. He has just completed his PhD at the California Institute of Technology. […]

Congratulations to recent PhDs for defending their dissertations

Congratulations to recent PhDs for defending their dissertations

Congratulations to Daniel García, Mingjian Wang, Shaiza Qayyum and Emmanuel Garcia-Morales, who all successfully defended their dissertations!

2017-2018 Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Awards Announced

Congratulations to Kevin Yuan, Sung Ah Bahk and Andrew Gray, the winners of the 2017-2018 Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Awards! These awards are given annually to those graduate students […]

Longtime JHU Economist Carl Christ dies at 93

Longtime JHU Economist Carl Christ dies at 93

Carl Christ, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, passed away on April 21, 2017.   Professor Christ was born on September 19, 1923 in Chicago and […]