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Economics

Our Programs and Curriculum

 

Economics at Northwestern

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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. 

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Our Faculty

 

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Meet our Faculty

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.

 

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Recent Publications

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Harry Pei wins NSF CAREER Award

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.

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Ryan Family gift for applied economics honors Northwestern President Emeritus Morton Schapiro

Created from the Ryan Family’s historic $480 million gift, announced by the University in September 2021, the Morton Schapiro Center for Applied Economics will fuel innovative research made possible by the power of advanced computing and big data.

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Economics Video Series

 

Learn about the innovative research of our faculty.

News and Events

 

Weekly Seminars

 
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Our weekly seminars bring renowned economists from universities around the globe. Explore all 7 of our seminar series, which are held in fall and spring quarters.

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Events

 
Oct
11
2024
Economic History Lunch Seminar

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston

Speaker: Caterina Alfonzo (University of Bologna) Title: "The Making of Italians: Institutional Response to Disasters and Nation-Buildi...

Oct
11
2024
Economics 501: Graduate Student Seminar

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston

Eleftheria Kelekidou (Northwestern University): "Inference for High Dimensional Parameters in the Presence of Endogeneity using Alterna...

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News

 
Undergraduate Economics alum Ryan Metzger (BA ’01, MBA ’09) featured in Northwestern Magazine for recycling company, Ridwell
Undergraduate alum interviewed in Fortune, sharing how he's reinventing venture capital as the co-founder and CEO at DVx Ventures
Undergraduate alum and co-founder of Daydream closes a $50M seed round
Remembering Marc Nerlove
Summer 2024 newsletter released

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