Former Penn Economics graduate, Chiara Scotti (PhD, 2005), was appointed senior vice president and director of research overseeing the Dallas Fed's Research and Statistics Departments..

Chiara Scotti will serve as senior vice president and director of research, overseeing the Dallas Fed’s Research and Statistics departments and advising President and CEO Lorie Logan on monet

Former Penn Economics graduate, John W. Schindler, (PhD, 2002), appointed new Secretary General of the Financial Stability Board

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has appointed John W. Schindler as the new Secretary General of the FSB.

Microeconomics Professor Anne Duchene is setting students up for success

Setting students up for success. Microeconomics professor Anne Duchene teaches 900 first-years every fall and spr

Yoginder K. Alagh, Noted Economist and former Union minister of India, passed away.

Yoginder K Alagh, a well-known economist, former minister and an emeritus professor at Ahmedabad-based Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research (SPIESR), passed away at his home in th

Economics Professor Jere Behrman has released a new book in the UNU-WIDER-CUP Elements series

Economics Professor Jere Behrman has released a new book in the UNU-WIDER-CUP Elements series: "Parental investments and children's human capital in low-to-middle income countries"

It is with great sadness that the Department of Economics notes the passing of Edward C. Prescott

It is with great sadness that the Department of Economics notes the passing of Edward C. Prescott, the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004. Ed Prescott had a long relationship with Penn. His first academic job was at the Department of Economics, from 1966 to 1971, when he returned to his alma mater Carnegie-Mellon University.

Mira Potter-Schwartz has been selected as one of the 4 Finalists for the 18th Annual International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES) Best Undergraduate Paper Competition and won!

The Department of Economics would like to congratulate Mira Potter-Schwartz on her achievement of being selected as one of the 4 finalists for the 18th annual International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES) Best Undergraduate Paper Competition. Mira attended then proceeded to win the competition.

Ashmit Vyas, who graduated in May 2022 as an Economics major, has been named US & Canada's regional winner of the Global Undergraduate Awards in the Economics category

The Global Undergraduate Awards 2022 Programme, the world's leading academic awards programme, have been announced and the Department of Economics in

Department of Economics Mourns the Passing of Professor Michael L. Wachter. Michael was a prominent cross-disciplinary scholar in the fields of law and economics.

Frank Diebold's paper with K. Yilmaz, "On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms", Journal of Econometrics will be reprinted

Frank Diebold's paper with K. Yilmaz, On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms, Journal of Econometrics, 182, 119-134, 2014, will be one of five papers reprinted, with commentary, in the "Fiftieth Jubilee Special Issue" of Journal of Econometrics, 2023