Our Economics Department Intramural Basketball team won the JHU Intramural 3-on-3 Basketball Championship! This is the second time our team won the championship in last 4 years. Here are photos of […]
Department News and Announcements Archive
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JHU PhD Students Visit the IMF Headquarters in Washington DC
JHU PhD students visit the IMF Headquarters in Washington DC to learn about career opportunities, hosted by JHU alumni.
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New Doctoral Students Welcome Party
The Department of Economics welcomed our incoming class of doctoral students in the annual department celebration on September 16th. The incoming class consists of 9 students.
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Congratulations to more of our recent PhDs for defending their dissertations
Congratulations to Andrew Gray, Jianhui Li and Shujaat Khan, who all successfully defended their dissertations!
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Congratulations to our recent PhDs for defending their dissertations
Congratulations to Ding Xuan Ng, Edmund Crawley, Kevin Yuan and Kyung Min Kang, who all successfully defended their dissertations!
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Professor Yingyao Hu Appointed as the New Chair of the Department of Economics
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Yingyao Hu will be serving as the next chair of the department beginning July 1st 2019, with a term extending […]
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Professor Papageorge, Somasree Dasgupta and Muhammad Husain Promoted
Congratulations to Nick Papageorge, who was promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure after rigorous reviews by the Homewood Academic Council. Congratulations to Somasree Dasgupta and Muhammad Husain, […]
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Matthew Kahn joins Johns Hopkins as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Matthew Kahn, an economist with expertise in urban and environmental economics, will join Johns Hopkins in Fall 2019 as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with a joint appointment in the Department […]
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2019 JHU Department of Economics Newsletter
It was another busy year for the Economics Department, with faculty and graduate student research activities, research conferences, seminars, and graduate student awards.
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Incoming Assistant Professor Yujung Hwang’s Dissertation Selected as a Winner of the 2019 HCEO Dissertation Prize
Incoming Assistant Professor Yujung Hwang’s Dissertation on “General Equilibrium Theory and Empirical Analysis of Immigrants’ Neighborhood Sorting and Social Integration” has been selected as a winner of the 2019 Human […]