Department News and Announcements Archive


2010 Inaugural Summerlin Lecture

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 […]


2010 Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Award Winners

Maia Linask wins award
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 […]


2010 Futures Seminar

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 […]


Krasnokutskaya and Jeziorski Join Faculty

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 […]