Department of Economics

Professor Akcigit is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his PhD from MIT and has been here at Penn since 2009. His research interests are in macroeconomics, economic growth, technological change, productivity, innovation, R&D and IPR policies.

Professor Behrman is a leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics, with emphasis on developing economies. His research interests include empirical microeconomics, labor economics, human resources, health, nutrition, project evaluation, economic demography, incentive systems and household behaviors. He has published over 350 professional articles and thirty-three books on these topics, and worked in over forty countries and with a number of international organizations.

Luca Bossi is also Director of Macroeconomic Principles here in the Economics Department. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University and joined Penn in 2010. He teaches Macroeconomic Principles and his areas of research are macroeconomics, public economics, consumption theory and political economy.

Kenneth Burdett has been a professor here at Penn since 2002. He is an Associate Editor of the International Economic Review and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. His current research interest is the evolution of wages and labor market status of workers within an equilibrium context.

Professor Cheng received her PhD from Yale University and has been here at Penn since 2009 where she also serves as the undergraduate major advisor. Her research interests include econometric theory and applied econometrics.

Professor Cole also acts as a consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. His research covers a broad range of macroeconomic topics using a combination of theory, quantitative and statistical methods.

Professor Cunha received his PhD from the University of Chicago and has taught here at Penn since 2007. He is also a research associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of inequality and poverty.

Professor Diebold is also Co-Director of the Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and President of the Society for Financial Econometrics. He has published extensively in econometrics, forecasting, finance and macroeconomics, and he has served on the editorial boards of numerous leading journals.

Professor Dillenberger received his PhD from Princeton University and has taught at Penn since 2008. His research interest is in microeconomic theory, and in particular decision theory.

Professor Ethier is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of International Economics, a member of the Advisory Board of the Division of Labour and Transaction Costs and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Economic Theory. His current research concerns trade policy and trade agreements.

Professor Fang is an applied microeconomist with broad theoretical and empirical interests focusing on public economics. He is currently working on issues related to insurance markets, particularly life insurance and health insurance markets, and issues related to discrimination and affirmative action. He serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and the International Economic Review, and also on the editorial board of other journals, including the American Economic Review.

Professor Fernandez-Villaverde is a Research Associate Chair at FEDEA, a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a Research Affiliate for the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His research agenda is in macroeconomics and econometrics, with a focus on the computation and estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models.

Professor Fieler received her PhD from New York University and has been here at Penn since 2009. She is also a member of the International Growth Centre (IGC) Trade Program.

Camilo Garcia-Jimeno received his PhD from MIT in 2011 and joined Penn this fall. His research focuses on political economy, economic history, theory and econometrics.

Professor Greenwood received his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1983 and has taught at Penn since 2006. He is a macroeconomist whose research has focused how technological progress has impacted, in a variety of ways, on the economy.

Professor Kaplan is also an International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He received his PhD from New York University, spent a year as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and has been at Penn since 2010. He is a macroeconomist working on problems related to fiscal stimulus, household formation, migration and insurance.

Professor Krueger is also co-editor of the American Economic Review, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Research Fellow at Netspar, a Research Professor at Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, and an Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Professor Liu’s research interests include dynamic games, especially reputation models and bargaining. His current research in this area is about costly information acquisition and bounded recall in reputation models to explain the phenomenon of reputation cycles, and how the arrival of new information affects the dynamics of bargaining.

George J. Mailath is Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as director of graduate studies, director of undergraduate studies, and chair of the department. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Research interests include noncooperative game theory, evolutionary game theory, repeated games, social norms, and the foundations of reputations.

Professor Manovskii is also Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics, Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. His research encompasses the fields of macroeconomics and labor economics.

Professor Matthews is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and has taught at Penn since 1997. He is a microeconomic theorist, with a focus on applied game theory and mechanism design.

Professor Menzio received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2005. He has been a faculty member of the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania since 2005. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER and a co-editor of the International Economic. His theoretical research focuses on the descriptive and normative analysis of markets with search frictions. His applied research tries to understand the secular and cyclical behavior of unemployment, vacancies and worker flows.

Professor Merlo is also a Research Fellow of CEPR and CESifo and a Research Associate of NBER. His areas of expertise are political economy, public economics, bargaining theory and applications, and empirical microeconomics. His research interests include the economics of crime, voting, career decisions of politicians, the formation and dissolution of coalition governments, the industrial organization of the political sector, household bargaining and the study of the residential housing market.

Prior to joining the Economics Department in 2010, Professor Pai got his PhD in Managerial Economics & Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. During his PhD, he had research stints at Google and Microsoft Research researching internet monetization. Before his PhD, he studied computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research interests include market design, mechanism design/auction theory and statistical decision theory.

Professor de Paula received his PhD from Princeton University and has taught here at Penn since 2005. He is also a research associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. He is an applied econometrician with strong interests in both empirical applications and methodological questions.

Andrew Postlewaite is the Harry P. Kamen Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on its Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association and a member of the Council of the Game Theory Society. He is founding editor of the journal American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

Professor Schorfheide is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and has been a Visiting Scholar at several central banks. He serves as an Associate Editor for Econometrica, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and Quantitative Economics. Professor Schorfheide conducts research in econometrics and macroeconomics. Detailed information about the research is available on his Personal Page.

Professor Sieg is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and at Penn’s Population Studies Center. He currently serves on the Board of Editors at the American Economic Review and the International Economic Review. He has published extensively on topics related to public finance and the economics of education and urban policy.

Dr. Stein is Director of the Microeconomic Principles Program in the Economics Department. She has taught here at Penn since 1998 and has received several awards for her distinguished teaching ncluding the Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty. Her research is in Health Economics and she is a senior Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute.

Professor Tang received his PhD from Northwestern University and has taught here at Penn since 2008. His research focuses on the robust econometric inference of economic models about agents’ behavior in environments with or without strategic interactions.

Professor Todd is also a Research Associate of Penn’s Population Studies Center. She serves as an Associate Editor for the American Economic Review and the Journal of Human Capital. Her main fields of research are social program evaluation, labor economics, and microeconometrics.

Professor Wolpin has been at Penn since 1995. His research focuses on the labor market and demographic decisions of households and individuals in dynamic settings.

Yuichi Yamamoto received his PhD from Harvard University in 2011 and joined Penn this fall. His research interests include microeconomic theory, game theory and contract theory.