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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.

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.
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.
IER: International Economic Review

The International Economic Review was established in 1960 to provide a forum for modern quantitative economics.

LATEST COVID-19 ECONOMICS RESEARCH

Cutting Edge Research on COVID-19 Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Economics Faculty.
2020-21 Job Market Candidates

Penn Ph.D. students seeking jobs during the 2020-21 academic year.
Letter from the Chair

Welcome to the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
Faculty Publications

Recent faculty publications from the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics

The Economics department relocated to the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics (PCPSE). The center houses the departments of Political Science and Economics.

Events

On Optimal Taxation and Subsidization of Health Goods
Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 12:00pm - Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 1:20pm
Money Macro Seminar
Seung-Ryong Shin
University of Pennsylvania
Socio-Economic Gaps in University Enrollment: The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns
Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 3:30pm - Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 5:00pm
Empirical Micro Seminar
Chris Rauh
University of Cambridge
Micro Theory Lunch
Monday, November 2, 2020 - 12:00pm - Monday, November 2, 2020 - 1:30pm
Micro Theory Lunch
Pedro Brandão Solti
University of Pennsylvania
Identification and Inference under Narrative Restrictions
Monday, November 2, 2020 - 4:30pm - Monday, November 2, 2020 - 5:30pm
Econometrics Seminar
Raffaella Giacomini
University College London

News

Professor Frank Diebold's 60 Second Lecture
October 1, 2020
Economics Professor, Frank Diebold presented Entering the Pandemic: The Joint Progression of COVID-19 and Economic Growth in the U.S. for the University's 60 Second Lecture Series.
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Dirk Krueger Elected Fellows to the Econometric Society
September 28, 2020
The Econometric Society has just announced that Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Graduate Chair and Professor of Economics, and Dirk Krueger, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Editor of the International Economic Review, were elected fellows of the Econometric Society.
Economics Professor Francis X. Diebold wins the 2020 Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics
September 20, 2020
The Richard Stone prize is awarded biennially for the best paper published in the preceding two volumes of the Journal of Applied Econometrics. The prize is for his paper, "Estimating Global Bank Network Connectedness," written with co-authors Mert Demirer (MIT), Laura Liu (Indiana University), and Kamil Yilmaz (Koç University).
Guillermo Ordonez awarded the Elsevier Sponsored Award for the Best Paper on Financial Institutions at WFA
August 7, 2020
Economics Professor Guillermo Ordonez awarded the Elsevier Sponsored Award for the Best Paper on Financial Institutions for his paper Interbank Networks in the Shadows of the Federal Reserve Act at the WFA.

Seung-Ryong Shin

University of Pennsylvania

Chris Rauh

University of Cambridge

Pedro Brandão Solti

University of Pennsylvania

Raffaella Giacomini

University College London