Francesco Bianchi officially joins Johns Hopkins as the Louis J. Maccini Professor as of July 1, 2022, after visiting Johns Hopkins as research professor during the 2021/2022 academic year. Professor Bianchi is […]
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What Economists Really Do
Economics is more than just Wall Street types or stock market prognosticators. Johns Hopkins economics faculty and students apply their tools to address the world's most important issues. Read more about the breadth of the department's work in the spring 2022 issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine.
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Graduate Student Qingyang Han has been awarded Provost’s office fellowship grant
Qingyang Han, a graduate student in the department, has been awarded Provost’s office Covid relief travel/research fellowship grant. The aim of the award is to support Qingyang’s research plans that […]
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Professor Robert Moffitt’s paper on measuring poverty was discussed at the BPEA
Robert Moffitt, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, coauthored a paper with John Fitzgerald titled “The Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure: A new method for measuring poverty“. The paper was discussed at the […]
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Congratulations to our job market candidates with their placements!
Congratulations to Melih Firat, Jakree Koosakul, Andreea Rotarescu, Himanshu Verma, Sahan Yildiz, and Tongli Zhang who all successfully finished their job market process! Melih Firat – IMF Jakree Koosakul – […]
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Professor Nicholas Papageorge was featured in WalletHub
Nicholas Papageorge, Broadus Mitchell Associate Professor of Economics, was featured in WalletHub’s recent article about States Whose Unemployment Claims Are Recovering the Quickest. Professor Papageorge discussed how has the vaccine distribution […]
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Graduate Student Aniruddha Ghosh has been awarded a fellowship from the George Mason University
Graduate Student Aniruddha Ghosh has been awarded the 2021-22 Oskar Morgenstern fellowship by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The Mercatus Center’s Oskar Morgenstern Fellowships are awarded to graduate students […]
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Prof. Naoyuki Yoshino (PhD’79) receives the International Green Finance Lifetime Achievement Scientific Award
The Central Bank of Hungary presented the Award to Prof. Yoshino in recognition of his breakthrough achievements and transformative career in the field of green finance. The ceremony took place in Budapest, […]
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Graduate Student Matthew Zahn was awarded a grant from the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative
Matthew Zahn, a graduate student in the Department, was awarded a $20,000 pilot grant from the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative to study the impacts of hospital consolidation on patient safety. The project […]
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Bridging the Gaps Between Economics and Epidemiology
Nicholas Papageorge, Broadus Mitchell Associate Professor of Economics, and Matthew Zahn, a graduate student in the department, had their work on modeling behavior during a pandemic highlighted in The New […]