• Alberto G. Musalem will be the next president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

  January 5, 2024

  The Federal Reserve Bank of St.

• Chiara Scotti was nominated to serve on the Governor Board of the Bank of Italy as Deputy Governor

  December 30, 2023

  Congratulations to Chiara Scotti for being nominated to serve on the Governor Board of the Bank of Italy as Deputy Governor.

• 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.