College Fed Challenge

The 2023 Penn Fed Challenge team poses with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
The 2023 Penn Fed Challenge team poses with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

 

 

Applications to join the 2024 Penn College Fed Challenge team will open in late March.

The Penn College Fed Challenge team represents the Department of Economics at the annual College Fed Challenge. Sponsored by the Federal Reserve, the Fed Challenge is a national competition where teams analyze macroeconomic and financial conditions and formulate monetary policy recommendations. We welcome all undergraduates interested in economic research and policy.

Our team has advanced to the national championships in 2013, 2019, 2020, 2021 (placing 2nd), 2022, and 2023. We are incredibly grateful to the Economics Department faculty for their enthusiastic support and mentorship.

Advisors: Frank Diebold (fdiebold@sas.upenn.edu), Luca Bossi (boluca@econ.upenn.edu)

2024 Team Captains: Thomas Li (thomli@sas.upenn.edu), Sneha Parthasarathy (snehalp@sas.upenn.edu)

Past Teams:

  • 2023: Akhilesh Tumu, Patrick Zhang, Brian Lee, Thomas Li, Sneha Parthasarathy, Yamin Phyu, Amy Zhang
  • 2022: Roshie Xing, Brian Lee, Patrick Zhang, Akhilesh Tumu, Anvit Rao, Stephanie Nam, David Zhi LuoZhang
  • 2021: Elizaveta Brover, Brian Lee, Isaac Tham, Roshie Xing, David Zhi LuoZhang, Stephanie Nam, Patrick Zhang
  • 2020: Elizaveta Brover, Brian Lee, Jessica Mixon, Renan Muta, Isaac Tham, Arnav Joshi
  • 2019: Elizaveta Brover, Justin Guo, Renan Muta, Aman Virdi, Catherine Wang