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 PhD program prepares 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.
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 […]
We are excited to welcome Professor Maria Betto to our department! Professor Betto recently received her PhD in Economics from Northwestern University. Her research focuses on economic theory, particularly in […]