Undergraduate
Undergraduate
The undergraduate program of the Economics Department is one of the largest undergraduate programs in the School of Arts and Sciences.
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Graduate
Graduate
The PhD program in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania is designed to train the next generation of outstanding research economists.
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Faculty
Faculty
Faculty members are actively engaged in scientific research and guiding the leading journals of the profession.
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About Us

The Economics Department, located in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences, is ranked among the top ten in the U.S. Its faculty, productive and research-oriented, is committed to the advancement of economic science.

Department Highlights
ECON Day 2017 Highlights
Econ Day celebrates student & faculty achievements.
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Opening Soon
Penn has become a founding member of a consortium to establish this new data center.
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Letter from the Chair
Welcome to the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Construction Cam
The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics.
Scheduled for completion in 2018
PIER: Penn Institute for Economic Research
Established in 1993 to create an environment for research and...
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IER: International Economic Review
Provides a forum for modern quantitative economics.
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2016-17 Job Market Candidates
Penn Ph.D. students seeking jobs during the 2016-17 academic year.
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Events
Aug
24
ITAM-PIER CONFERENCE ON MACROECONOMICS 2017
Aug 24, 2017 (All day) - Aug 25, 2017 (All day)
Aug
29
Micro Theory Seminar
Aug 29, 2017 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Sep
05
Industrial Organization Workshop
Sep 05, 2017 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
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News
Jun
30
New Fellows for the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory
Jeremy Greenwood, Professor of Economics and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics were elected Economic Theory Fellows for...
Jun
30
New Fellows of the Game Theory Society
George J. Mailath, Professor of Economics and Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, Department Chair, Andrew Postlewaite, Harry P....
Jun
20
Official Launch of VoxChina.org
We are pleased to announce the official launch of VoxChina.org. VoxChina is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit platform we initiated with the...
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