On December 7, 2012, the department held a conference and reception to celebrate the retirement of Lou Maccini with his family, friends, former students, and colleagues. The pictures from the event are available at: http://facebook.com/louis.j.maccini.
Meet our 2012/2013 Job Market Candidates: Colleen Carey, Michele Mazzoleni, Prathi Seneviratne, Matthew N. White, Xiaochen Xu, Wei Zhao, Yizhen Zhao.
On December 7, 2012, the JHU Department of Economics will be hosting a conference and dinner in honor of Lou Maccini’s extraordinary service to the economics profession, to the JHU economics department, and to the JHU community. Participants in the event will include Lou’s thesis adviser, recent Nobel Laureate Dale Mortenson, along with two distinguished […]
The Department of Economics welcomes its new class of doctoral students, who hail from the United States and 6 other countries. See photos of the welcome reception here.
On September 6, Christopher Carroll gave a keynote address on “Macroeconomic Implications of Wealth Heterogeneity” at the 11th Annual Macroeconomics Policy Workshop of the Centre for Economic Policy Research jointly with the Hungarian National Bank. This was a revised version of a presentation that Professor Carroll made to an Academic Consultant’s meeting of the Board […]
The department welcomes Jorge Balat, Nicholas Papageorge, and Yuya Sasaki to the Department. Jorge Balat comes to us from Yale and his area of research is Industrial Organization. Nick Papageorge arrives from Washington University at St. Louis and he works in the areas of Health Economics and Labor Economics. Yuya Sasaki comes to us from […]
Professor Laurence Ball joined the Scientific Advisory Board of the Koc University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Turkey. Established in 2004 as a non-profit and non-partisan organization jointly by Koc University and the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association, the ERF focuses on promoting independent and objective analysis on economic growth and discusses the implications of […]
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.”
