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| 10/25/2011 | Former graduate Ignazio Visco, PhD 1981, is Governor of the Bank of Italy | We congratulate our former graduate student, Ignazio Visco, Ph.D. 1981, who has been appointed Governor of the Bank of Italy by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. | ||
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We congratulate our former graduate student, Ignazio Visco, Ph.D. 1981, who has been appointed Governor of the Bank of Italy by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Ignazio Visco has been Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy since 2007. For more information on him, see his profile at the Bank of Italy. 
Ignazio Visco
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| 10/10/2011 | Congratulations to Nobelist Thomas J. Sargent | Congratulations to Thomas J. Sargent, who with Christopher A. Sims, was awarded the 2011 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy. He was a member of the Penn Economics faculty from 1970-1971. He is a member of the Penn Institute for Economic Research (PIER) Advisory Board and in February 2004 was a Martha & Jonathan Cohen Distinguished Visitor. | ||
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Congratulations to Thomas J. Sargent, who with Christopher A. Sims, was awarded the 2011 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy. He was a member of the Penn Economics faculty from 1970-1971. He is a member of the Penn Institute for Economic Research (PIER) Advisory Board and in February 2004 was a Martha & Jonathan Cohen Distinguished Visitor. For further information see The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel 2011. 
Thomas J. Sargent
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| 10/5/2011 | Assistant Professor Openings | The Department of Economics has two or more tenure track Assistant Professor positions available. Interested candidates can see the postings on EconJobMarket. | ||
| 9/23/2011 | Devin Reilly wins this year's Lawrence Robbins Prize | Devin Reilly won the Lawrence Robbins Prize which is awarded at the end of each year to the student judged to be the best in the first year class. | ||
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Devin Reilly won the Lawrence Robbins Prize which is awarded at the end of each year to the student judged to be the best in the first year class. He received the prize on September 23, 2011 during the New Student Reception, which was hosted by the Graduate Economics Society. 
Devin Reilly, second-year graduate student
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| 7/1/2011 | Former graduate Lars-Hendrik Röller, PhD 1987, is Germany's Chief Economic Adviser | We congratulate our former graduate student, Lars-Hendrik Röller, PhD 1987, who was appointed Director General of the Economic and Financial Policy Division of the German government by Chancellor Angela Merkel. | ||
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We congratulate our former graduate student, Lars-Hendrik Röller, PhD 1987, who was appointed Director General of the Economic and Financial Policy Division of the German government by Chancellor Angela Merkel. He is currently on leave from his position as President of the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) which he has held since 2006. 
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| 6/10/2011 | Professor Behrman Appointed to NIH/NICHD Advisory Council | Professor Jere Behrman was invited by Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and he agreed to serve as... | ||
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Professor Jere Behrman was invited by Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and he agreed to serve as the Economics/Social Science member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) National Advisory Council for 2011-14.
Professor Jere Behrman
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| 5/3/2011 | Former graduate Alassane D. Ouattara, PhD. 1972, is President of Cote d'Ivoire | We congratulate our former graduate student Alassane D. Ouattara, Ph.D. 1972, who was elected and recently installed as President of Cote d'Ivoire. | ||
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We congratulate our former graduate student Alassane D. Ouattara, Ph.D. 1972, who was elected and recently installed as President of Cote d'Ivoire. His dissertation was "Trade Effects of the Association of African Countries with the Common Market." 
Alassane D. Ouattara
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| 4/21/2011 | Three Professors Receive Teaching Awards | Dr. Rebecca Stein is the recipient of the Provost Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty. | ||
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Dr. Rebecca Stein is the recipient of the Provost Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty. The Kravis committe, composed of upper-level economics majors, gave teaching awards to Holger Sieg (tenured faculty award) and to Ufuk Afcigit (tenure-track award). |
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| 4/15/2011 | Economics Day - April 15, 2011 | Celebrated for over 30 years, Economics Day is an occasion to recognize outstanding teaching and research achievements by undergraduate and graduate students and exemplary teaching by economics faculty. | ||
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Scenes from Economics Day - April 15, 2011 (Note: The Paul Taubman Memorial Prize for Empirical Economics Research was won by Clement Joubert who was unable to attend the ceremony.) 
Department Chair Antonio Merlo introduces the program.
Professor Ufuk Akcigit receives the Kravis Prize for Distinctive in Undergraduate Teaching for tenure-track faculty.
Professor Holger Sieg (left) receives Kravis Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching for tenure faculty.
Eben Lazarus accepts the Lawrence R. Klein Prize for Outstanding Research by an Undergraduate.
Joel Tee accepts the Simon Kuznets Fellowship Award in Economics. (Shepard Berg shared the prize but was unable to attend.)
Lisa Rickles won the Bernard Shanbaum Prize for Excellence in Economics.
Olga Itenberg is this year's recipient of the Edwin Mansfield Teaching Prize.
Karam Kang accepts the Maloof Family Dissertation Fellowship in Economics.
Zhao Yang won the Joel Popkin Graduate Student Teaching Prize in Economics.
Francesc Dilme won this year's Sidney Weintraub Memorial Fellowship in Economics. Fei Li (not pictured) also won.
Kurt Mitman won the Hiram C. Haney Fellowship Award in Economics.
Zehao Hu and Selman Erol accept the Lawrence Robbins Prize from Professor Dirk Krueger.
Xi Weng accepts this year's David Cass/Beth Hayes Prize.
Francis Carey announces the winners of the William Polk Carey Prize for the Outstanding Economics Dissertation in 2010.
Chao Fu (one of the winners of the Carey Prize) pictured with Professor Dirk Krueger. Antonio Penta (the other winner of the prize) was unable to attend.
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| 4/15/2010 | Teaching Awards | In April, 2010, Professor Andrew Postlewaite won the Kravis teaching award for tenured faculty and Professor Flavio Cunha the award for tenure-track faculty, with Cunha winning for the second year in a row! | ||
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In April, 2010, Professor Andrew Postlewaite won the Kravis teaching award for tenured faculty and Professor Flavio Cunha the award for tenure-track faculty, with Cunha winning for the second year in a row! The Kravis prize selections are made each year by a committee of undergraduate students who do extensive polling of Penn undergraduate economics majors. The Joel Popkin Graduate Teaching Prize in Economics was awarded to Stanislav Rabinovich. The Edwin Mansfield Teaching Teaching prize for best performance by a recitation instructor in Introductory Economics was awarded to Mark Bognanni. |
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| 12/15/2009 | Former Penn economics graduate student Ernesto Cordero named Mexican Minister of Finance | We congratulate our former graduate student, Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo, on his appointment as Mexico's Minister of Finance. He received his MA in economics from Penn in 1998. | ||
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We congratulate our former graduate student, Ernesto Javier Cordero Arroyo, on his appointment as Mexico's Minister of Finance. He received his MA in economics from Penn in 1998. 
Ernesto Cordero
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| 10/19/2009 | Former Penn Economics Professor Awarded Nobel Prize | Professor Oliver Williamson was awarded the 2009 Nobel prize in economics, along with Professor Elinor Ostrom, for his analysis of economics governance and of the boundaries of the firm. He was a member of the Penn Economics faculty from 1965-1983 and much of the research for which he was awarded the Nobel prize was carried out during his time at Penn. | ||
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Professor Oliver Williamson was awarded the 2009 Nobel prize in economics, along with Professor Elinor Ostrom, for his analysis of economics governance and of the boundaries of the firm. He was a member of the Penn Economics faculty from 1965-1983 (Associate Professor from 1965-58, Professor from 1968-83, and Charles and William L. Day Professor of economics and social science from 1977-1983). Much of the research for which he was awarded the Nobel prize was carried out during his time at Penn. For further information see The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009. 
Oliver Williamson
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| 9/28/2009 | International Economic Review 50th Anniversary | The November issue of the International Economic review marks the 50th Anniversary of the journal, which was founded by Lawrence R. Klein in collaboration with the late Michio Morishima. | ||
