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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.

IER: International Economic Review

The International Economic Review was established in 1960 to provide a forum for modern quantitative economics.
PIER: Penn Institute for Economic Research

PIER was established in 1993 to create an environment that will enhance the role of Penn as one of the leading institutions for the study of economics.
Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Data Center

Through the Philadelphia FSRDC, faculty and students affiliated with consortium institutions are able to conduct statistical analysis of a wide range of non-public microdata.

Letter from the Chair

Welcome to the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
Faculty Journal Articles

Recent faculty journal articles from the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
LATEST COVID-19 ECONOMICS RESEARCH

Cutting Edge Research on COVID-19 Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Economics Faculty.
Faculty Books

Recently published books by Penn Economics faculty

Events

Market Power in the Single-Family Rental Industry
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 12:00pm - Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 1:00pm
Empirical Micro Lunch
Felipe Barbieri
University of Pennsylvania
Optimal Allocation with Noisy Inspection - Job Talk
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 4:00pm - Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 5:30pm
Micro Theory Seminar
Nawaaz Khalfan
University of Pennsylvania
Funding Deposit Insurance - Job Talk
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 - 12:00pm - Wednesday, October 5, 2022 - 1:10pm
Money Macro Seminar
Ryan Zalla
The Bank Distress Amplifier of Recessions
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 - 3:30pm - Wednesday, October 5, 2022 - 4:40pm
Money Macro Seminar
Dohan Kim
University of Pennsylvania

News

Ashmit Vyas, who graduated in May 2022 as an Economics major, has been named US & Canada's regional winner of the Global Undergraduate Awards in the Economics category
September 14, 2022
The Global Undergraduate Awards 2022 Programme, the world's leading academic awards programme, have been announced and the Department of Economics in
Department of Economics Mourns the Passing of Professor Michael L. Wachter. Michael was a prominent cross-disciplinary scholar in the fields of law and economics.
September 6, 2022
Frank Diebold's paper with K. Yilmaz, "On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms", Journal of Econometrics will be reprinted
August 22, 2022
Frank Diebold's paper with K. Yilmaz, On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms, Journal of Econometrics, 182, 119-134, 2014, will be one of five papers reprinted, with commentary, in the "Fiftieth Jubilee Special Issue" of Journal of Econometrics, 2023
Mira Potter-Schwartz has been selected as one of the 4 Finalists for the 18th Annual International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES) Best Undergraduate Paper Competition
August 16, 2022
The Department of Economics would like to congratulate Mira Potter-Schwartz on her achievement of being selected as one of the 4 finalists for the 18th annual International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES) Best Undergraduate Paper Competition

Felipe Barbieri

University of Pennsylvania

Nawaaz Khalfan

University of Pennsylvania

Ryan Zalla

Dohan Kim

University of Pennsylvania