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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.

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.
2018-19 Job Market Candidates

Penn Ph.D. students seeking jobs during the 2018-19 academic year.
Letter from the Chair

Welcome to the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

News

Kelly Quinn has been selected to receive a 2018 School of Arts and Sciences Staff Recognition Award.
November 19, 2018
The department is delighted that Kelly Quinn has been selected to receive a 2018 School of Arts and Sciences Staff Recognition Award.
New Fellows of the Econometric Society
November 12, 2018
The Econometric Society has just announced that Hanming Fang, Class of 1965 Term Professor of Economics, and Frank Schorfheide, Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department, were elected fellows of the Econometric Society.
Daniel E. Polsky has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine
October 24, 2018
Daniel E. Polsky, who received a PhD in economics from our department in 1996, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation's highest honors in biomedicine.
Dirk Krueger named Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professors in the Social Sciences
October 23, 2018
Dirk Krueger, professor of economics has been appointed Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences.

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IER: International Economic Review

PIER: Penn Institute for Economic Research

Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Data Center

The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics

2018-19 Job Market Candidates

Letter from the Chair

Competition and Manipulation in Derivative Contract Markets

Junior Recruiting Seminar, Micro Theory Seminar

Anthony Lee Zhang

Stanford University

Sovereign Debt, Default Risk, and the Liquidity of Government Bonds

Junior Recruiting Seminar, Money Macro Seminar

Gaston Chaumont

Penn State University

Price Regulation in Credit Markets: A Trade-off between Consumer Protection and Credit Access

Junior Recruiting Seminar, Empirical Micro Seminar

Jose Cuesta

University of Chicago

Testability and bounds in continuous instrumental variable models

Junior Recruiting Seminar, Econometrics Seminar

Florian Gunsilius

Brown University

Kelly Quinn has been selected to receive a 2018 School of Arts and Sciences Staff Recognition Award.

New Fellows of the Econometric Society

Daniel E. Polsky has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Dirk Krueger named Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professors in the Social Sciences