• 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

• Allan Lee, senior honors economics major, has been awarded the Yardley Award

  April 24, 2023

  Allan Lee, senior honors economics major, has been awarded the Yardley Award for his senior thesis

• Penn Global Awards $1.7 million in Research and Engagement Awards, Including three Awards to Economics Professors Behrman and Todd

  April 24, 2023

  Penn Global has awarded $1.7 million in research and engagement awards to support 19 new projects involving faculty from all of Penn’s 12 Schools.

• Petra Todd has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  April 19, 2023

  The Department congratulates Petra Todd, who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! For the official announcement, see www.amacad.org.

• The Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted eleven Economics majors in April 2023

  April 11, 2023

  The Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted the following economics majors into the society which is 13.8% of all those awarded.

• Cuimin Ba, a graduate student in the economics department, has been selected to participate in the 2023 Review of Economic Studies tour.

  March 24, 2023

  Cuimin Ba, a graduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Penn, has been selected to participate in the 2023 Review of Economic Studies tour. The REStud tour, which has been held annually since 1989, selects some of the most promising graduating doctoral students in economics and finance to present their research at several economics departments across Europe.

• Professors Diebold and Behrman in top 70 among global Economics and Financial Scientists

  March 7, 2023

  Professors Diebold and Behrman in top 70 among global Economics and Finance Scientists: Based on H citation indices within economics, Professors Frank X Diebold and Jere R Behrman ranked high among the best Economics and Finance Scientists in the 2023 Edition of Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Economics and Finance.

• The NBER is announcing the Robert Summers Economic Measurement Fellowship

  February 17, 2023

  To promote research on economic measurement and to strengthen ties between the academic and practitioner communities working in this area, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Conference on Research on Income and Wealth (CRIW) will sponsor five fellowships for economic statisticians working in government statistical agencies and international organizations to attend the CRIW meeting at the 2023 NBER Summer Institute in Cambridge, MA.