Penn Arts and Sciences has appointed two new members to its standing Economics faculty for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Amit Gandhi, Professor of Economics (as of January 1, 2018): Demand and production functions; methodological model identification in industrial organization, including those in demand systems and production functions and in auction models. Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Comes to Penn from the University of Wisconsin.
Annie Liang, Assistant Professor of Economics: Microeconomic theory; behavioral economics; decision theory; game theory and its applications; machine learning algorithms in benchmarking predictability of theories when subjected to data testing. Ph.D. from Harvard University.