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

The Phi Betta Kappa Society announced the Elmaleh Prize for an Undergraduate Essay in the Social Sciences for 2022 and the winner is an Economics Major

The Phi Betta Kappa Society announced the Elmaleh Prize for an Undergraduate Essay in the Social Sciences 2022 and the Department of Economics is excited to announce that the prize was awarded to Ashmit Vyas who was an Economics Major

The Phi Beta Kappa Society announced the thesis prize winners for 2022 and one of the three winners was an Economics major

The Phi Beta Kappa Society announced the three thesis prize winners for 2022 and the Economics Department is excited to announce that one of the winners was a Department of Economics major, Mira Potter-Schwartz

Ethan Kallett, May 2022 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, with distinction in Economics, named a 2022 Yenching Scholar

Ethan Kallett, a May graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences with distinction in Economics, from Vienna, Virginia, has been named a 2022 Yenching Scholar.

Sadie T. M. Alexander, Ph.D., J.D., University of Pennsylvania, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the United States, was named posthumously as one of the American Economics Association Distinguished Fellows in 2022.

Sadie T.M. Alexander, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted sixteen Economics majors in April 2022.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society inducted the following economics majors into the society which is 12.1% of all those awarded.