Department News and Announcements Archive


Eighth Simon Newcomb Lecture – October 10, 2018

Eighth Simon Newcomb Lecture – October 10, 2018
Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, the E.C. McCarty Centennial Professor of Economics at University of Texas at Austin, will deliver the eighth Simon Newcomb Lecture entitled “Models of Numbers: Pragmatics and Economic […]


New Doctoral Students Welcome Party

New Doctoral Students Welcome Party
The Department of Economics welcomed our incoming class of doctoral students in the annual department celebration on September 10th. The incoming class consists of 14 students from the United States […]


Annual Health Econometrics Workshop – Sept. 27-29

Annual Health Econometrics Workshop – Sept. 27-29
The department of economics is hosting the Annual Health Econometrics Workshop on Sept. 27-29. As part of the workshop, Professor Eric French (UCL) will deliver a keynote lecture, which is […]


The Department Welcomes New Faculty for 2018-2019

The Department Welcomes New Faculty for 2018-2019
Marcelo Fernandez, an expert on market and mechanism design, will join us as an Assistant Professor in September. He has just completed his PhD at the California Institute of Technology. […]


Professors Chen and Krasnokutskaya Promoted

Professors Chen and Krasnokutskaya Promoted
Congratulations to Ying Chen and Elena Krasnokutskaya, who have both been promoted from Assistant Professor to tenured Associate Professor after rigorous reviews by the Homewood Academic Council.


2018 JHU Department of Economics Newsletter

2018 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.  Read the 2017-18 Newsletter here.


Five Graduate Students Receive 2017-2018 Awards

Five Graduate Students Receive 2017-2018 Awards
The Economics Department is pleased to announce that five graduate students have received awards for the 2017-2018 academic year. Tongli Zhang received the Eugenio and Patricia Castillo Award for the […]