Recent Honors for Professor Jere R. Behrman
He has received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Chile and is the recipient of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant. In addition, he has been appointed to National Academies of Science Committee on Population.
Congratulations to Graduate Student Suryun Rhee
Suryun Rhee was one of the ten winners of this year's Penn Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching.
Economics Day - April 20, 2012
A photographic gallery of the presenters and prize winners from Economics Day - April 20, 2012
Professor Francis X. Diebold to Lead Committee Studying Stress Tests of U.S. Banks
Professor Diebold will lead the Federal Reserve's newly-formed Model Validation Council to provide advice on the assessment of stress test on U.S. banks.
Emeritus Economics Professor Robert Summers Dies at 89
Economics Professor Robert Summers, who taught here at Penn from 1960 to 1991, died on April 17.
Professor George Mailath inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
George Mailath, the W. H. Annenberg Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, is among 220 new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected this year.
Audio Interview with Professor Jere Behrman
Professor Jere Behrman is featured in the March 2012 issue of Omnia.
New Economics Major and Minor
The Economics Department is pleased to now offer a Mathematical Economics Major and an Economic Policy Minor. Details about the new major and minor are available in the Undergraduate section of our website.
Former graduate Ignazio Visco, PhD 1981, is Governor of the Bank of Italy
We congratulate our former graduate student, Ignazio Visco, Ph.D. 1981, who has been appointed Governor of the Bank of Italy by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Congratulations to Nobelist Thomas J. Sargent
Congratulations to Thomas J. Sargent, who with Christopher A.
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