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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.
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.

2019-20 Job Market Candidates

Penn Ph.D. students seeking jobs during the 2019-20 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

Cancelled: Macro Lunch
Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 12:00pm - Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 1:00pm
Macro Lunch
Ni Wang
University of Pennsylvania
Cancelled: Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences
Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 3:30pm - Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 5:00pm
Empirical Micro Seminar
Luigi Pistaferri
Stanford University
Cancelled: Macro Lunch
Friday, April 3, 2020 - 12:00pm - Friday, April 3, 2020 - 1:00pm
Macro Lunch
Christian Pericon
Visiting from Barcelona GSE
Cancelled: Econometrics Lunch
Monday, April 6, 2020 - 12:00pm - Monday, April 6, 2020 - 1:00pm
Econometrics Lunch
Boyuan Zhang
University of Pennsylvania

News

Successful intervention: Research by Hanming Fang and colleagues abroad has shown that city-wide lockdowns are effective in containing the spread of the novel coronavirus.
March 24, 2020
Successful intervention: Research by Economic Professor Hanming Fang of the School of Arts and Sciences and Leonard Davis Institute and colleagues abroad has shown that city-wide lockdowns and other restrictions on movement are effective in containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. These restrictions allow stressed medical systems to regroup and deal with new infection cases, they write.
2020 Econometrics Conference to be held in Honor of Frank Diebold
February 11, 2020
In spring 2020 the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas will host a conference, "The Econometrics of Macroeconomic and Financial Data: A Conference in Honor of Francis X. Diebold,"
Dirk Krueger Becomes New Editor of the International Economic Review
January 9, 2020
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that, effective January 1, 2020, Dirk Krueger has assumed the role of Editor of the International Economic Review. He succeeds Harold L. Cole who has held the position since July 2011. The Department owes Hal a debt of gratitude for his outstanding service to the Department and the profession at large for leading the IER, and strengthening its position as one of the leading general interest journals of the economics profession.
The Knight Foundation Invests in A New Initiative on the Economics of Digital Services: Providing a Foundation for Evidence-Based Decision Making
December 17, 2019
The Knight Foundation made a $350,000 investment in a new project at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition as part of a $3.5 million initiative to inform the national debate on rules, norms and governance of the internet and digital platforms.

Undergraduate

Graduate

Faculty

IER: International Economic Review

Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Data Center

PIER: Penn Institute for Economic Research

2019-20 Job Market Candidates

Letter from the Chair

Faculty Publications

The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics

Cancelled: Macro Lunch

Macro Lunch

Ni Wang

University of Pennsylvania

Cancelled: Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences

Empirical Micro Seminar

Luigi Pistaferri

Stanford University

Cancelled: Macro Lunch

Macro Lunch

Christian Pericon

Visiting from Barcelona GSE

Cancelled: Econometrics Lunch

Econometrics Lunch

Boyuan Zhang

University of Pennsylvania

Successful intervention: Research by Hanming Fang and colleagues abroad has shown that city-wide lockdowns are effective in containing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

2020 Econometrics Conference to be held in Honor of Frank Diebold

Dirk Krueger Becomes New Editor of the International Economic Review

The Knight Foundation Invests in A New Initiative on the Economics of Digital Services: Providing a Foundation for Evidence-Based Decision Making