• 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

  Sneha L.

• It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Roberto S. (Bobby) Mariano, Emeritus Professor of Economics.

  April 29, 2025

  It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Roberto S. "Bobby" Mariano, Emeritus Professor of Economics, on Thursday, April 17, 2025. Bobby received his Ph.D.

• Ananya Varshneya, an Economics Department Senior, has been awarded the 2025 Rose Award.

  April 24, 2025

  Ananya Varshneya, an Economics Department, School of Arts and Sciences, senior, has been awarded a 2025 Rose Award for one of best theses at the University

• Ananya Varshneya, a graduating honors senior this year, had her Economics Honors Thesis selected as the Oustanding Paper at the Carroll Round Undergraduate Economics Research Conference.

  April 15, 2025

  Ananya Varshneya, a graduating honors senior this year, had her Economics Honors Thesis on “Switching Out: Strategy and Sequential Preferences in Centralized University Admissions” (advised by Jere Behrman and Margauz Luflade) selected as the  Outstanding Paper at the Carroll Round Undergraduate Economics Research Conference

• Phi Beta Kappa has inducted the 12 students to the Economics and Mathematical Economics majors into the society.

  April 10, 2025

  Phi Beta Kappa has inducted the following Economics and Mathematical Economics majors into the society:

• We are pleased to announce that our proposal to start a new Masters in Applied Economics and Data Science program was recently approved by the Board of Trustees.

  March 20, 2025

  We are pleased to announce that our proposal to start a new Masters in Applied Economics and Data Science program was recently approved by the Board of Trustees. We will welcome the first class of students in fall of 2026.

• Professor Antonio Merlo, our former faculty member from 2000-2014, has been named as the 16th President of Drexel University.

  February 1, 2025

  Professor Antonio Merlo, our former faculty member from 2000-2014, has been named as the 16th President of Drexel University.

• We are sad to announce the passing of Mike Marrese, Penn Economics Ph.D. in 1978, on 26 December 2024.

  January 3, 2025

  We are sad to announce the passing of Mike Marrese, Penn Economics Ph.D. in 1977, on 26 December 2024.

• It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Joel Popkin.

  December 31, 2024

  With great sadness, we announce that Dr. Joel Popkin, a distinguished alumni of our own PhD program and of Wharton’s undergraduate program, passed away on December 24th at the age of 92.