• Penn Economics graduate Naoki Aizawa received the Prize for Best Paper in Quantitative Economics

  April 16, 2021

  We are proud to announce that former Penn Economics graduate Naoki Aizawa (Ph.D. 2014) has received the Prize for Best Paper in Quantitative Economics published in the past two years, awarded by the Econometric Society, for his paper "Labor Market Sorting and Health Insurance System Design"

• Economics Faculty Anne Duchene Won Dean's Teaching Award

  April 13, 2021

  Anne Duchene, the Director of the Microeconomic Principles Program in the Department of Economics, won the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty. This award is presented annually in recognition of the contribution to undergraduate education made by the School's adjunct professors and lecturers.

• Jere R. Behrman, Principle Investigator on new grant, African Economic Research Consortium

  April 6, 2021

  Jere R. Behrman, Principle Investigator on new grant, African Economic Research Consortium "Early-Life Human Capital Investments in SSA", in the context of the AERC Collaborative project on "Human Capital Development in Africa”.

• Economics Professor Jere Behrman included in “Highly Cited Researchers"

  March 6, 2021

  Economics Professor Jere Behrman, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology, Is included in “Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles”

• Aislinn Bohren's paper "The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence" won the 2020 Exeter Prize

  February 1, 2021

  Aislinn Bohren's paper "The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence" (with Alex Imas and Michael Rosenberg, AER 2019 won the 2020 Exeter Prize for the best paper published in the previous calendar year in a peer-reviewed journal in the fields of Experimental Economics, Behavioural Economics and Decision Theory.

• Professor Frank Diebold's 60 Second Lecture

  October 1, 2020

  Economics Professor, Frank Diebold presented Entering the Pandemic: The Joint Progression of COVID-19 and Economic Growth in the U.S. for the University's 60 Second Lecture Series.

• Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Dirk Krueger Elected Fellows to the Econometric Society

  September 28, 2020

  The Econometric Society has just announced that Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Graduate Chair and Professor of Economics, and Dirk Krueger, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Editor of the International Economic Review, were elected fellows of the Econometric Society.

• Economics Professor Francis X. Diebold wins the 2020 Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics

  September 20, 2020

  The Richard Stone prize is awarded biennially for the best paper published in the preceding two volumes of the Journal of Applied Econometrics. The prize is for his paper, "Estimating Global Bank Network Connectedness," written with co-authors Mert Demirer (MIT), Laura Liu (Indiana University), and Kamil Yilmaz (Koç University).

• Guillermo Ordonez awarded the Elsevier Sponsored Award for the Best Paper on Financial Institutions at WFA

  August 7, 2020

  Economics Professor Guillermo Ordonez awarded the Elsevier Sponsored Award for the Best Paper on Financial Institutions for his paper Interbank Networks in the Shadows of the Federal Reserve Act at the WFA.

• The BBC series on "Behind the Buzzwords" next episode is on "Big Data" and Professor Frank Diebold's role in coining the term

  July 30, 2020

  The BBC series on "Behind the Buzzwords" next episode is on "Big Data" and Professor Frank Diebold's role in coining the term. The broadcast is on 4th August at 9:30am (BST) on BBC Radio 4 and will be available on BBC Sounds after the broadcast."