• Congratulations to Kaye Husbands Fealing who is being honored by American Economic Association with 2023 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

  October 30, 2023

  Congratulations to Kaye Husbands Fealing (Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Economics, C' 1981), who is being honored by American Economic Association with the 2023 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award.

• Anita Arrow Summers, one of America's leading authorities on urban economic development and educational efficiency, has passed away.

  October 23, 2023

  It is with great sadness that the Department of Economics notes that Anita Arrow Summers passed away on October 22, 2023. Anita received a B.A. in Economics from Hunter College in 1945 and an MA from the University of Chicago in 1947. She joined the Wharton School to start the first public policy department in a business school in 1979 and chaired that department from 1983 to 1988. She was one of America's leading authorities on urban economic development and educational efficiency...

• Congratulations to Claudia Goldin, who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today.

  October 9, 2023

  Congratulations to Claudia Goldin, who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today" for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes."  Professor

• Fatih Karahan, who received his Ph.D. in Economics from Penn in 2012, was appointed Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye

  October 5, 2023

  Fatih Karahan, who received his Ph.D. in Economics from Penn in 2012, was appointed Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye...

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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