Professor Debraj Ray (New York University), delivered the 2016-2017 Richard Ely Distinguished Lecture Series April 3-5.

Nicholas Papageorge’s Work on Education and Race was quoted in the Baltimore Sun. Link to the research paper. He was also interviewed on NPR Marketplace and Fox45 News.

A Conference on Social and Political Economy is a joint endeavor between JHUs Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences and JHUs Carey Business School and will have a changing sub-topic for each year. The inaugural conference will take place at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Harbor East Campus, 100 International Drive, 4th Floor Conference […]

Faculty and graduate students were well represented at the AEA Meetings in Chicago, January 6-8. Professors Balat, Carroll, Hu, Jeanne, Korinek, Papageorge, and Wright were on the program. The alumni reception was attended by more than 50 people and by many of the Department’s graduate alumni, with those attending having the opportunity to meet old […]

Two times in a row! Our Economics Department won the JHU Kickball Championship in late September and last night our team won the JHU Intramural 3vs3 Basketball League. Kudos to our teams! See the photo gallery for more pictures of our winners.

Congratulations to Jiaxiong Yao, Yiyang Li, Yajing Jiang, Alexandria Zhang, Metin Uyanik, and Mikhail Smirnov, who all successfully defended their dissertations.

The Department of Economics welcomed our incoming class of doctoral students in the annual department celebration in September. The incoming class consists of 8 students from the United States and 3 other countries.

Congratulations to Marco Cornia, Sevcan Yesiltas, Ryan Bush, Burcin Kisacikoglu, Boqun Wang and Sang Ah Lee, who all successfully defended their dissertations.

Professor John Quah was elected a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. This society publishes Economic Theory, one of the top journals of the field of economic theory.

The 2016 NSF/NBER/CEME Conference on Mathematical Economics will be hosted by the Department of Economics at Johns Hopkins on October 29th and 30th. Please visit the conference page for detailed information.