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

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

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

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 until July 2021. Professor Hu has been with the department since 2007. He is a Hopkins alumnus with an MSE in mathematical science and an […]

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, who were promoted from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer.

Matthew Kahn, an economist with expertise in urban and environmental economics, will join Johns Hopkins in Fall 2019 as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Carey School of Business.   He will also serve as Director of the Johns  Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative, a university-wide initiative […]

It was another busy year for the Economics Department, with faculty and graduate student research activities, research conferences, seminars, and graduate student awards.  Read the 2018-19 Newsletter here.

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 Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO) Dissertation Prize. HCEO Announcement

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 have shown excellence as a teaching assistant or instructor in the undergraduate economics program. The award was initiated by Joel and Monia Dean and generously […]