News & Announcements Archive

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 – […]

Professor Nicholas Papageorge was featured in WalletHub

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 […]

Graduate Student Aniruddha Ghosh has been awarded a fellowship from the George Mason University

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 […]

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, […]

Graduate Student Matthew Zahn was awarded a grant from the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative

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 […]

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 […]

Why the child tax credit matters

Why the child tax credit matters

Economist and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics Robert Moffitt discusses how the American Rescue Plan’s monthly allowance is lifting children out of poverty, cutting food insecurity, and investing in children as a society.

Four faculty positions open in Economics

The Department of Economics seeks to fill four faculty positions at different ranks. The positions include an Associate or Full Kaye Professor of Applied Microeconomics, an open-rank search for SNF Agora Institute faculty focused on political economy, and two assistant professors, one in industrial organization and another in international economics. More details and application links are on the Job Openings page. All positions are currently accepting applications.

Senior Lecturer Barbara Morgan contributes to the New York Times

Senior Lecturer Barbara Morgan contributes to the New York Times

Barbara Morgan, Senior Lecturer, contributed to a debate on “Should the U.S. Expand the Social Safety Net?,” recently published in the New York Times. Click here to access the debate.

Faculty Focus: Ying Chen

Faculty Focus: Ying Chen

Three questions with Associate Professor Ying Chen about her research, teaching, and hobbies.