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Cornell professor Chris Barrett, speaking in Rome before researchers and policymakers from around the world, did not spare words: “Food security may be the defining global challenge of the century.”Barrett gave the 15th annual George McGovern Lecture at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, April 4 at its headquarters in...
On behalf of the Department of Economics, thank you to the alumni, families, and current students who donated on Giving Day 2019. We can report that we raised at least $6,400 from 45 gifts to the department.Much of what we are able to do in the Department of Economics is due to the generous support of our alumni. Your contributions help us to...
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was hailed as the first international response to climate change – but it didn’t include penalties for countries that failed to cut their carbon emissions.In 2015, the Paris climate agreement, negotiated by 196 countries, also lacked sanctions against noncompliers. In December 2018, negotiators cut a deal in Poland to...
Alan Krueger ’83, one of the world’s most influential labor economists and a central figure in the rebuilding of the U.S. economy after the 2008 financial crash, was inspired as an ILR School undergraduate. Here, he learned to apply economics to solve problems people face in their daily lives.Krueger, 58, died last weekend. A Princeton University...
The Cornell Economics Community is proud to support and promote the work of our students who are seeking employment following the completion of their doctoral program. We are happy to announce the 2019 job market placements.The graduate program of study is designed to train for research careers as faculty in public policy programs, public health...
"His pen unified the literature, opened up new directions and invariably redefined the state of the art."Tapan Mitra, Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University, passed away in Ithaca on February 3, 2019. Born in 1948 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, he studied at Presidency College and the Delhi School of Economics before...
Graduates of its undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in the Department of Economics have had an impact not only on economics but also on a wide range of industries around the world. We are always interested in hearing from our alumni and look forward to sharing your successes. To submit a class note and read more about interacting with current...
Department faculty, field faculty, and graduate students attended the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) in Atlanta, Georgia. The AEA, in conjunction with 58 associations in related disciplines known as the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA), hold a three-day meeting to present papers on general economics topics...
The world has seen real progress in reducing poverty over the last few decades. But the persistence of chronic extreme poverty, and the fact that has become most concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, has prompted new research on the thorny topic.A new book, “The Economics of Poverty Traps,” co-edited by a Cornell agricultural and development...
A new paper by Jörg Stoye and Yuichi Kitamura (Yale), “Nonparametric Analysis of Random Utility Models,” was published as the lead article in the November 2018 issue of Econometrica. This paper serves as the capstone of Stoye’s NSF Grant (SES-1260980 ), generously awarded by the National Science Foundation from 2013-2016.Econometrica is one of...
Assistant Professor Giulia Brancaccio has been named a Himan Brown Faculty Fellow. Himan Bown Fellowships are designed to help the dean and chairs recognize talented faculty in a broad range of disciplines. This fellowship is made possible through generous support from the Himan Brown Charitable Trust, directed to the College of Arts &...
Cornell has recognized eight faculty members for excellence in their teaching of undergraduate students and contributions to undergraduate education.The Stephen H. Weiss Awards were announced Nov. 2 by President Martha E. Pollack at a meeting of the Cornell University Board of Trustees, following unanimous recommendation by a selection committee...
Forthcoming PublicationsModel and Predictive Uncertainty: A Foundation for Smooth Ambiguity PreferencesDenti, Tommaso and Luciano Pomatto. "Model and Predictive Uncertainty: A Foundation for Smooth Ambiguity Preferences," Econometrica, forthcoming.Markets and Regulation in the Age of Big TechBasu, Kaushik, Aviv Caspi, and Robert Hockett...
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Yongmiao Hong, has announced winners of the L.R. “Red” Wilson MA ‘67 Excellence in Economics Medal and four teaching awards to students in the Economics Ph.D. program. Recipients come from a variety of cohorts and areas of economic research.L.R. “Red” Wilson MA ‘67 Excellence in Economics Medal:Red Wilson...
Professor Yongmiao Hong was elected as an Econometric Society Fellow by the Econometric Society, an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. Twenty-two fellows were announced earlier this month. The Econometric Society publishes a research monograph series and three industry...
Graduates of its undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in the Department of Economics have had an impact not only on economics but also on a wide range of industries around the world. We are always interested in hearing from our alumni and look forward to sharing your successes. To submit a class note and read more about interacting with current...
Cornell students and faculty members were recognized at ILR’s 24th Annual McPherson Honors and Awards Dinner on May 9th, 2017. This award ceremony is named for James E. McPherson, assistant dean and director of the Office of Student Services at ILR from 1983 to 2002. Students and faculty were rewarded for exceptional academic scholarship,...
Update: View a recording of Alesina's Lecture here.Political Economist, Alberto Alesina, will visit Cornell on October 31, 2018 to present "Immigration and Redistribution: Perceptions Versus Reality" for the George Staller Lecture Series.Alberto Alesina is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His work has...
Congratulations to Professors Levon Barseghyan, Francesca Molinari, and Jörg Stoye for their recent National Science Foundation grants! They have secured a total of $572,938 for the following two projects:An Empirical Model of Limited Consideration: Robust Inference for Risk PreferencesInvestigators: Levon Barseghyan and Francesca Molinari"...
Over the summer, Professor Marco Battaglini was elected as an Economic Theory Fellow by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET). Three fellows were chosen by SAET this year. "Economic Theory Fellows are selected for their scientific excellence, originality, and leadership; high ethical standards; and scholarly and creative...
Cornell economists Professor Panle Jia Barwick, Professor Shanjun Li, Graduate Student Deyu Rao, and Graduate Student Nahim Bin Zahur examined the links between air pollution and health-care costs across 367 Chinese cities.Their working paper, The Morbidity Cost of Air Pollution: Evidence from Consumer Spending in China, was recently published by...
Dear Alumni,I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself as a new member of the Department of Economics at Cornell and as the new Department Chair. I received an undergraduate degree in Economics from Amherst College in 2000 and a PhD from the University of Michigan in 2007. After spending two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the...
Graduates of its undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in the Department of Economics have had an impact not only on economics but also on a wide range of industries around the world. We are always interested in hearing from our alumni and look forward to sharing your successes. To submit a class note and read more about interacting with current...
Over the summer six economics graduate students were awarded department prizes. Join us in congratulating the awardees of the Tapan Mitra Prize, Ernest Liu ’64 Ta-Chung and Ya-Chao Liu Memorial Fellowship, and the Labor Economics Small Grants for 2022-23.
Cornell held its commencement celebration for 5,500 seniors and advanced degree recipients on May 27, 2018 in Schoellkopf Stadium. It was an especially rainy day and the celebration marked Cornell’s sesquicentennial, the 150th, commencement ceremony. Economics majors Linfeng Shen ’18 and Robin Wang ’18 led the College of Arts degree candidates...