A conference in honor of Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Robert Moffitt took place on September 9-10. Eleven distinguished economists gave papers at the conference and a five expert policy analysts participated in […]
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.
Nicholas Papageorge, Broadus Mitchell Associate Professor of Economics, was awarded a grant as a Co-Principal Investigator from the U.S. National Science Foundation with the project titled “Modeling Dynamic Disease-Behavior Feedbacks for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]