The Department of Economics welcomed our incoming class of doctoral students in the annual department celebration on September 12th. The incoming class consists of 9 students.

It was another busy year for the Economics Department, with faculty and graduate student research activities, research conferences, seminars, and graduate student awards.

Fed rate hikes won’t bring down inflation as long as government spending stays high, Professor Francesco Bianchi and Leonardo Melosi of the Chicago Fed wrote in a recent white paper presented at the Federal Reserve's annual research symposium in Jackson Hole, WY.

Mateo Velásquez-Giraldo and Matthew Zahn, graduate students in the department, have been awarded National Bureau of Economic Research dissertation fellowships for the academic year 2022-2023. Mateo is studying how survey […]

Ying Chen and M. Ali Khan have received Johns Hopkins Discovery Award with their interdisciplinary research on “Deception and Bad Faith Communication”.  The research team consists of faculty members from […]