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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.

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    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.

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    The International Economic Review was established in 1960 to provide a forum for modern quantitative economics.

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Events

  • Micro Theory Seminar

    Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 4:00pm - Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 5:30pm

    Micro Theory Seminar

    Mengjia Xia

    University of Pennsylvania
  • Money Macro Seminar

    Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - 4:00pm - Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - 5:30pm

    Money Macro Seminar

    Job Boerma

    University of Wisconsin, Madison visiting Penn
  • Econometrics Seminar

    Monday, September 8, 2025 - 4:30pm - Monday, September 8, 2025 - 6:00pm

    Econometrics Seminar

    Andrew Patton

    Duke University
  • Micro Theory Seminar

    Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - 4:00pm - Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - 5:30pm

    Micro Theory Seminar

    Itai Arieli

    University of Toronto

News

  • Congratulations to Dr. Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on winning the Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize awarded by the Heritage Foundation

    July 8, 2025

    We congratulate Dr. Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde on winning the Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize awarded by the Heritage Foundation. 

  • Congratulations to Young Ahn, Ph.D. Candidate, in the Department of Economics of the School of Arts and Sciences, received the Best Student Paper Award for his paper...

    July 7, 2025

    Young Ahn, Ph.D. Candidate, in the Department of Economics of the School of Arts and Sciences, received the Best Student Paper Award for his paper, "Identification of Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Using Prognostic Variables"

  • Alfonso Maselli, a Penn doctoral student presented the Jaffray memorial lecture at the Risk, Uncertainty & Decision conference in 2025.

    June 19, 2025

    Alfonso Maselli presented his paper “Misspecification Averse Preferences” at the 2025 RUD Jaffray lecture.  In the paper, Alfonso develops an axiomatic foundation for a general class of

  • Sneha L. Parthasarathy, a May 2025 honors graduate with a major in Mathematical Economics, has been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for the best senior thesis.

    June 6, 2025

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The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics
133 South 36th Street
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Philadelphia, PA 19104

Telephone: 215-898-7701
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