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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.
Economics Day 2019 Highlights

Economics Day is our annual celebration to recognize outstanding achievements by undergraduate and graduate students and exemplary teaching by economics faculty.
Letter from the Chair

Welcome to the Economics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Events

Industrial Organization Seminar - Job Market Talk
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 3:30pm - Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 5:00pm
Industrial Organization Seminar
Minshen Li
University of Pennsylvania
Micro Theory Seminar
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 4:00pm - Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 5:30pm
Micro Theory Seminar
Alex Frankel
Chicago Booth
Money Macro Seminar
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 4:00pm - Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 5:30pm
Money Macro Seminar
Alessandra Peter
NYU
The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:30pm - Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 5:00pm
Empirical Micro Seminar
Daniel Sturm
London School of Economics

News

Economics Senior David Wigglesworth Receives a Rose Undergraduate Research Award
May 2, 2019
Economics Senior David Wigglesworth's project under the direction of Professors Frank Diebold and Jere Behrman, “Crop Production and Climate Change: The Importance of Temperature Variability,” has been selected to receive a 2019 Rose Undergraduate Research Award.
Antonio Merlo, former Penn Economics professor and Department Chair named Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at NYU
March 7, 2019
Antonio Merlo, a distinguished political economist has been named the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science.
Juan Pablo Atal, Assistant Professor of Economics, was named one of the Axilrod Fellows for the Axilrod Term Fund in Health and Inequality at the School of Arts & Sciences
February 26, 2019
Richard A. Axilrod (WG’85) and Nancy M. Axilrod, Penn parents, have made a $2 million gift to establish the Axilrod Term Fund in Health and Inequality. The fund has enabled Penn Arts and Sciences to recruit three new faculty members who will help establish Penn as a worldwide center for the analysis of inequality and health, with a specific focus on the distribution of health outcomes and how this distribution is shaped by social policies.
A new book from economist Jeremy Greenwood looks at the effects of technological progress on home life.
January 31, 2019
Professor of Economics. Jeremy Greenwood’s new book “Evolving Households: The Imprint of Technology on Life” published in January 2019 by The MIT Press was excerpted and featured in an article in Penn Today How the appliance boom moved more women into the workforce.

Minshen Li

University of Pennsylvania

Alex Frankel

Chicago Booth

Alessandra Peter

NYU

Daniel Sturm

London School of Economics