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 of the department’s research seminars. It is generously funded by alumnus Eugenio Castillo and his wife, Patricia, and is named in honor of Professor Emeritus […]
Joe Harrington and his co-author Iwan Bos received Honorable Mention for the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for antitrust scholarship for their 2010 RAND Journal of Economics article on “Endogenous Cartel Formation with Heterogeneous Firms”. The article will be recognized at the annual conference of the American Antitrust Institute on June 23rd at […]
Prof. Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland will give the inaugural Sumerlin Lecture on “This Time is Different – Eight Centuries of Financial Folly”. This distinguished lecture series is generously funded by Marc Sumerlin, who is a graduate of the Krieger School’s MA Program in Applied Economics. The lecture will take place on October 15th at […]
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 of promoting excellence in undergraduate education in the Krieger School. The 2009-10 recipients are Maia Linask and Matt White, to whom we extend both congratulations […]
April 21 (Thursday), 3:30-6:00 (Mason Hall, Homewood Campus) Introductory Remarks: Joe Harrington (JHU) Chair: Jon Faust (JHU) Speaker: Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton) Markus K. Brunnermeier is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor at Princeton University. He is a member of the Department of Economics and is affiliated with Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance. He was awarded his Ph.D. by the London School […]
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 organization and other areas in applied microeconomics including investment behavior and regulation. Przemek Jeziorski is an industrial organization empiricist who is completing his doctoral work at […]
Professor Laurence Ball testifies before the House Committee on Financial Services, March 25, 2010. (Video)
The Guggenheim Foundation has named Robert Moffitt one of its Fellows for 2009. Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment.
