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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.
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.

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

Micro Theory Lunch
Monday, November 30, 2020 - 12:00pm - Monday, November 30, 2020 - 1:30pm
Micro Theory Lunch
Nawaaz Khalfan
University of Pennsylvania
Empirical Micro Lunch
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 12:00pm - Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 1:00pm
Empirical Micro Lunch
Xincheng Qiu
University of Pennsylvania
Persuasion via Weak Institutions
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 4:00pm - Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 5:15pm
Micro Theory Seminar
Denis Shishkin
UC San Diego
Monetary Policy and Mortgage Pricing
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 3:30pm - Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 5:00pm
Industrial Organization Seminar
Alessandro Gavazza
London School of Economics

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.

Nawaaz Khalfan

University of Pennsylvania

Xincheng Qiu

University of Pennsylvania

Denis Shishkin

UC San Diego

Alessandro Gavazza

London School of Economics