World-renowned speakers

Workshops & Seminars

Our department hosts world-renowned speakers in our diverse set of weekly workshops. In addition, our faculty and students pursue research in many different areas of economic study.

Research Spotlight: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Wages

Professor Eleonora Patacchini and Graduate Student Angela Cools find that women with any brothers earn roughly 10 percent less than women with no brothers in their late 20s and early 30s.

Read this abstract and explore a listing of other working papers here.

Economics News

Nobelist explores women’s role in the workplace—and lives it

Economist and Harvard professor Claudia Goldin ’67 studied under eminent Big Red faculty members Alfred Kahn and Walter LaFeber

Gold surge does not pose a threat to the US dollar

“It would be virtually impossible for Gold to take on the multifaceted role of the USD in international trade and finance."

Nobel-winning behavioral economist Richard Thaler to speak Oct. 17

Thaler won the Nobel Prize in 2017 for work done in the 1980s at Cornell. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago.

Behavioral economics: Born at Cornell, embraced by policymakers

Economists and psychologists work together to understand how human behavior impacts people's decision-making in the marketplace.

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Nobel winner says US women won on rights, but benefits lag

Claudia Goldin '67 used data to paint a picture of the "tremendous" progress of the U.S. women’s movement, as well as the forces that have prevented women from reaping the benefits of their rights.

The Nobel Prize as a Gold medal on black background

Three Nobel Laureates to speak on campus this semester

This fall, the Cornell community has the chance to hear from three Nobel Laureates in one semester, two of whom are alumni: Claudia Goldin ’67, Jack Szostak, Ph.D. ’77, and Richard Thaler.

Nobel-winning economist to speak on ‘why women won’

Claudia Goldin ’67, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics, will return to campus to give the 2025 Staller Lecture on Sept. 25.

Lots of students standing in a big space with bright lights overhead facing someone with a microphone.

Entrepreneurial students flock to kickoff event

Niko Tsavekou ’27, an economics major in the College of Arts & Sciences, won the pitch contest for Katha, a creatine-enhanced coconut water recovery drink he created with two friends.

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The S. C. Tsiang Macroeconomics Workshop

Sho-Chieh Tsiang, a world-renowned authority in macroeconomics, monetary theory and international ﬁnance, was a Professor of Economics at Cornell University from 1969 until his retirement and elevation to Emeritus status in 1985. His family has graciously endowed our department's weekly Macroeconomics Workshop.

Learn more about S.C. Tsiang and his contributions in the field of economics