Congratulations to Emek Karaca, who successfully defended his dissertation on June 8, 2015.

On May 28-29, upon recommendation from President Ronald Daniels, the Board of Trustees voted to promote Yingyao Hu to Full Professor in the Department. Professor Hu is a highly accomplished […]

Congratulations to Ryan Bush, Parul Gupta, and Yeabin Moon, the winners of the 2014-2015 Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Awards. These awards are given annually to those graduate students who […]

The Economics Department is pleased to announced that four graduate students have received awards for the 2013-2014 academic year.  Graduate Student Jianhui Li was awarded the Eugenio and Patricia Castillo […]

Congratulations to Hou Wang, who successfully defended her dissertation on May 12, 2015.

Congratulations to Jiae Yoo, who successfully defended her dissertation on March 18, 2015.

Laurence Ball contends that small increases to inflation could create many more jobs. Read the article here.

In a recent post on Brookings, entitled Strong Payroll Growth Continues, Jonathan Wright discusses an alternative way the Bureau of Labor Statistics can calculate adjustments for seasonal patterns in employment.

Congratulations to Collin Rabe, who successfully defended his dissertation on February 9, 2015.

In December, Professor Jonathan Wright issued the keynote speech at the  Research Triangle Econometrics Conference in North Carolina and gave an invited lecture at the annual EC2 conference in Barcelona.  […]