Professor Robert Moffitt has been appointed by the President of the American Economic Association, Christopher Sims, to be Chair of the AEA Committee on Government Relations. The Committee represents the […]

Professor Christopher Carroll recently began a five year term as a member of the Board of Directors of the NBER. He is the representative, on the NBER Board, of the […]

Congratulations to Yingyao Hu on being appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Econometrics! His term will begin on January 1, 2012 and will be for three years.

Congratulations to James Lake, winner of the Bruce Hamilton Research Seminar Award This award is given annually to the advanced graduate student who has demonstrated the best performance in one […]

The Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Award recognizes graduate students who have exhibited extraordinary performance in teaching undergraduates. It is generously funded by Joel and Monia Dean with the objective […]

This fall, two superb assistant professors in applied microeconomics join the Economics faculty. Elena Krasnokutskaya has made highly-cited and significant contributions to the empirical auction literature. Her research interests include industrial […]