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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.

Letter from the Chair

Welcome to the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
Faculty Journal Articles

Recent faculty journal articles from the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
LATEST COVID-19 ECONOMICS RESEARCH

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

Recently published books by Penn Economics faculty

Events

Dynamic Political Investigations: Obstruction and the Optimal Timing of Accusations
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 12:00pm - Monday, October 3, 2022 - 1:30pm
Micro Theory Lunch
Alice Gindin
University of Pennsylvania
Exchange Rates, US Monetary Policy and the Global Portfolio Flows
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 12:00pm - Monday, October 3, 2022 - 1:00pm
Econometrics Lunch
Xiaoliang Wang
University of Pennsylvania
Identification and Estimation of Average Partial Effects in Semiparametric Binary Response Panel Models
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 4:30pm - Monday, October 3, 2022 - 6:00pm
Econometrics Seminar
Laura Liu
Indiana University
Market Power in the Single-Family Rental Industry
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 12:00pm - Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 1:00pm
Empirical Micro Lunch
Felipe Barbieri
University of Pennsylvania

News

Ashmit Vyas, who graduated in May 2022 as an Economics major, has been named US & Canada's regional winner of the Global Undergraduate Awards in the Economics category
September 14, 2022
The Global Undergraduate Awards 2022 Programme, the world's leading academic awards programme, have been announced and the Department of Economics in
Department of Economics Mourns the Passing of Professor Michael L. Wachter. Michael was a prominent cross-disciplinary scholar in the fields of law and economics.
September 6, 2022
Frank Diebold's paper with K. Yilmaz, "On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms", Journal of Econometrics will be reprinted
August 22, 2022
Frank Diebold's paper with K. Yilmaz, On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms, Journal of Econometrics, 182, 119-134, 2014, will be one of five papers reprinted, with commentary, in the "Fiftieth Jubilee Special Issue" of Journal of Econometrics, 2023
Mira Potter-Schwartz has been selected as one of the 4 Finalists for the 18th Annual International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES) Best Undergraduate Paper Competition
August 16, 2022
The Department of Economics would like to congratulate Mira Potter-Schwartz on her achievement of being selected as one of the 4 finalists for the 18th annual International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES) Best Undergraduate Paper Competition

Alice Gindin

University of Pennsylvania

Xiaoliang Wang

University of Pennsylvania

Laura Liu

Indiana University

Felipe Barbieri

University of Pennsylvania