Our world-class department owes its reputation to outstanding faculty dedicated to teaching and research, as well as engaged students who take advantage of learning opportunities in and beyond the classroom.
The Economics major and minor are open to all undergraduates. The Ph.D. program has 125 students in residence.
Learn about faculty accomplishments, publications and news.
Our distinguished faculty includes fellows of the American Economic Association, members of the National Academy of Sciences and editors of the American Economic Review and other prestigious journals. Longtime faculty member Dale Mortensen was winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics.
Harry Pei has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Pei is an assistant professor of economics at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences whose research focuses on game theory. He will receive $462,400 over five years from NSF’s Division of Social and Economic Sciences to hire and mentor research assistants.
Benjamin Golub and Marciano Siniscalchi have been elected as two of the 29 2023 Fellows by The Econometric Society.
Learn about the innovative research of our faculty.
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Daniela Arriaga Borja (Northwestern University): "Formalization under Incomplete Information: Can Knowledge of Legal Rights Shift Domes...
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Speaker: Zincy Wei Title: The Political-Economic Determinants of Choosing Traditional Medicine in India Abstract: Traditional medicine ...
