News and Events

News

 

Economics student honored for ethical leadership

***Economics major is becoming the top-paying college major according to the Wall Street Journal.***

Grows make $2 million gift for economics undergraduate education

 

Job Openings in the Economics Department

 

 

Welcome New Faculty

Russell Cooper is currently Professor of Economics at The Pennsylvania State University.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and has held positions at Yale University, the University of Iowa, Boston University, the University of Texas and the European University Institute in Florence Italy. Cooper is a NBER Faculty Research Associate and the Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has published in macroeconomics, international economics, industrial organization, experimental economics, labor economics and monetary economics.

Some of his recent work focuses on fiscal policy in a monetary union as well as exit from a monetary union. Papers on monetary union have appeared in the Review of Economic Studies, the International Economic Review and the European Economic Review.

 

Michal Fabinger’s primary research field is international economics; his broader interests include price theory and finance. His recent work on international trade highlights the importance of geography for transmission of economic shocks. In collaboration with Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki, Michal studied pricing of durable goods by producers with market power, and its consequences for business-cycle fluctuations. His joint work with Glen Weyl investigates welfare implications of a large class of economic models, suggests new ways to assess robustness of economic models and studies novel policies to encourage innovation. Before shifting his interest to economics, Michal worked on theoretical high-energy physics.

 

Peter Newberry studied economics and math as an undergraduate at Colby College in Waterville, ME, and later went on to earn his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fields of industrial organization and applied microeconomics.   His current research examines the possibility of bad market outcomes when consumers learn about the quality of a product from one another.  He predicts the probability of these bad outcomes in an online market for new digital music. In another project, he studies bidding behavior in auctions for cars sold on eBay. Generally, he is interested in consumer behavior in online markets.

 

 

Events

 

 

 

New Faces in International Economics Conference 2013

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April 13 & 14, 2013

Cornell-PSU Macro Conference

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Applied Econ JMP Conference

organized by the Penn State Economics Department

March 29 & 30, 2013

Friday, March 29

Conference: 1:00 to 5:45 PM

 

Saturday, March 30

Conference: 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

 

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Prior Events 2012

 

 

 

Awards 2012

Congratulations to:

Paul Grieco has been appointed the Strumpf Early Career Professor in Economics

Neil Wallace was awarded a Distinguished Fellow from the American Economics Association for 2012

Barry W. Ickes for receiving the W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award

Robert C. Marshall for receiving the Service to the College Award

Congratulations to Vijay Krishna, who has been awarded the Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. The Faculty Scholar Medals are given each year to recognize scholarly or creative excellence in one of five areas: arts and humanities, engineering, health and life sciences, physical sciences, or social and behavioral sciences. The work for which the medal is received must have been completed during the preceding five years.

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Congratulations to Dirk Mateer, who has been awarded the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, named for the seventh president of the University (1882-1907). This award is presented each year to four faculty members across the University who have devoted substantial effort to and developed a record of excellence in undergraduate teaching.