• Former University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics graduate student, Murat Alp Çelik, has been awarded the Bank of Canada's Governor's Award

  September 8, 2023

  Murat Alp Celik (Penn Econ PhD, 2016), now Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto has been awarded

• Xincheng Qiu (PhD, 2023)'s paper "Vacant Jobs" received the best junior scholar paper award in the 2023 China International Macroeconomics conference.

  September 5, 2023

  Xincheng Qiu (PhD, 2023)'s paper "Vacant Jobs" received the best junior scholar paper award in the 2023 China International Macroeconomics conference.

• Ricardo Marto (PhD, 2023)'s paper "Structural Change and the Rise in Markups" is one of the recipients of the 2023 Young Economist Award

  September 5, 2023

  Ricardo Marto (PhD, 2023)'s paper "Structural Change and the Rise in Markups" is one of the recipients of the 2023 Young Economist Award from the European Economic Association.

• Jesus Fernández-Villaverde, Frank Schorfheide, and Holger Sieg are appointed endowed chairs

  July 26, 2023

  Dean Steve Fluharty confirmed that three economics faculty are appointed endowed chairs.

• Winner of the Frederick W. Meier, Jr. Thesis Prize is David J. Jin

  June 28, 2023

  The Department of Economics is excited to share the announcement of the winner of the Frederick W. Meier, Jr. Thesis Prize

• Two junior faculty members of the Department, are among the recently appointed National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Faculty Research Fellows

  May 3, 2023

  Two junior faculty members of the Department of Economics, Francesco Agostinelli and Juan Camilo Castillo, are among the recently appointed National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Faculty Research Fellows

• Penn Global Awards $1.7 million in Research and Engagement Awards, Including three Awards to Economics Professors Behrman and Todd

  April 24, 2023

  Penn Global has awarded $1.7 million in research and engagement awards to support 19 new projects involving faculty from all of Penn’s 12 Schools.

• Allan Lee, senior honors economics major, has been awarded the Yardley Award

  April 24, 2023

  Allan Lee, senior honors economics major, has been awarded the Yardley Award for his senior thesis

• Petra Todd has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  April 19, 2023

  The Department congratulates Petra Todd, who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! For the official announcement, see www.amacad.org.

• The Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted eleven Economics majors in April 2023

  April 11, 2023

  The Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted the following economics majors into the society which is 13.8% of all those awarded.