Professor Robert Moffitt assumed the department chairmanship on July 1, 2012. He will serve until June 30, 2015.

Congratulations to the 2011-12 winners – Ryan Bush, Blair Chapman, Gizem Kosar, and Chris Martin! The Krieger School offers its gratitude to not only Ryan, Blair, Gizem, and Chris, but all of the graduate students who exerted that extra effort to advance the education of Hopkins’ undergraduates. Your hard work and exceptional skill are greatly […]

Professor Laurence M. Ball was the keynote speaker at the 11th Annual Conference of the European Economics and Finance Society at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey on June 16, discussing “Fiscal Consolidations.”

Robert Moffitt, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics is elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Robert will be inducted at a ceremony Oct. 6, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass..  For details, see Two Johns Hopkins Professors Named to the American Academy of Arts […]

Professor Joe Harrington gives the Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture Series on U.S. Antitrust Policy at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Dr. Molly K. Macauley (PhD 1983), Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow at the Resources for the Future delivered the Carolyn and Edward Wenk Jr. Lecture in Technology and Public Policy on Friday, April 27, on the Homewood campus. Macauley talk, “Forever Ours: Technology, Economics and Institutions for Managing Long-Lived Environmental Problems,” began at […]

Public lecture on “The Construction of an Imperial Paradigm: Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Thomas Kuhn, and the Rise and Fall of Chicago Economics 1940-1976” by Professor Eric Schliesser [1][2], BOF Research Professor, Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium.

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen gave the keynote speech at the Provost’s Symposium on the Social Determinants of Health. The symposium was held at the Shriver Hall Auditorium on May 8-9, 2012. The full agenda and more information can be found here. Registration was required. Register now.

Arriving in Fall 2012 are two assistant professors in applied microeconomics – Jorge Balat in industrial organization from Yale and Nick Papageorge in health and labor economics from Washington U. at St. Louis – and an assistant professor in microeconometrics – Yuya Sasaki from Brown. All three are superb additions to a core of microeconomists […]

The Spring 2012 Sumerlin Lecture will be given by Prof. Edward Glaeser of Harvard University. He will speak on “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, Happier”. Details: Friday, April 13, 6:00 pm, at the University of California Washington Center, 1608 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036