The Department of Economics at Johns Hopkins University is a leader in economic theory and empirical analysis. Members of this tight-knit department interact on topics including the U.S. and global financing system, unemployment and the economy, economic inequality and poverty, economic behavior, and game theory and political economy.
Students share academic and collegial connections with their professors, who guide them through thought-provoking research and an intense curriculum.
With its world-class faculty and individualized attention, the Masters and PhD programs prepare students to be leaders in academia, government, international organizations, and industry.
Dynamic classroom interactions help students explore important economic problems, and provide the tools needed to address them—in theory and in practice.
This semester Bruce Hamilton, a member of our department since 1973, taught his final course. Over his 51 years at JHU, he taught approximately 17,000 students and employed 500 TAs, […]
Robert J. Barbera ’74 BA, ’78 PhD, lecturer in the Department of Economics and director of the Center for Financial Economics, speaks on why the Federal Reserve can’t fine-tune the […]
Economics Department Faculty colleagues Jonathan Wright and Jon Faust, and both members of JHU’s Center for Financial Economics, were quoted this past week, ahead of next Wednesday’s U.S. Federal Reserve […]