Department of Economics

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The University of Zurich awarded B. Douglas Bernheim an honorary doctorate. Bernheim gave a public lecture for the special occasion.

Photo by Steve Castillo

Muriel Niederle was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024 for the excellence of her work in behavioral and experimental economics.
Neale Mahoney will begin his term as SIEPR's director on January 1, 2025.
Nicholas Bloom is serving as American Economic Association's co-vice president with Ebonya Washington, a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, in 2024.

Seminars and Events

May
22
DateWednesday | 3:30 pm
Location
Landau 351 and Zoom
Speaker: Victor Gay - Toulouse School of Economics
May
22
DateWednesday | 3:45 pm
Location
GSB C106
Speaker: Yeon-Koo Che - Columbia University
May
22
DateWednesday | 4:00 pm
Location
Landau - Lucas A
Speaker: Ulrich Müller - Princeton University
May
23

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE)

The SITE 2024 Conference takes place this summer from July 1 - September 11 on the Stanford campus with sessions that cover a wide-range of economic topics. Its purpose is to advance economic science for the benefit of society and to support cutting-edge work of economic theorists within specialized areas of research.

SITE is accepting paper submissions!