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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.

LATEST COVID-19 ECONOMICS RESEARCH

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

Estimating Flexible Distributions for the Random Coefficient Logit Model with Fixed-grid Likelihood and Clustering Methods
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 12:00pm - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 1:00pm
Empirical Micro Lunch
Ruizhi Ma
University of Pennsylvania
Using Market Design to Improve the Provision of Sanitation
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 3:30pm - Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 5:00pm
Industrial Organization Seminar
JF Houde
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Job types, worker turnover, and employment fluctuations
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 12:00pm - Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 1:00pm
Macro Lunch
Jinfeng Luo
University of Pennsylvania
Gig Workers and Performance Pay: A Dynamic Equilibrium Analysis of an On-Demand Industry
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 3:30pm - Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 5:00pm
Empirical Micro Seminar
Michal Hodor
University of Pennsylvania

News

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.
The BBC series on "Behind the Buzzwords" next episode is on "Big Data" and Professor Frank Diebold's role in coining the term
July 30, 2020
The BBC series on "Behind the Buzzwords" next episode is on "Big Data" and Professor Frank Diebold's role in coining the term. The broadcast is on 4th August at 9:30am (BST) on BBC Radio 4 and will be available on BBC Sounds after the broadcast."

Ruizhi Ma

University of Pennsylvania

JF Houde

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jinfeng Luo

University of Pennsylvania

Michal Hodor

University of Pennsylvania