Read the latest department news, including faculty announcements, student achievements, and more.
In honor of Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and his 70th birthday, the Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics held a conference celebrating his impressive career.
Jianqing Fan, the Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance at Princeton University, was honored with the Excellence in Mentoring Award by the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Loretta Mester, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, joins the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies as a senior research scholar starting September 1.
In a recent working paper by Professor Zachary Bleemer and co-author Sarah Quincy, they study the changes in the college mobility pipeline since 1900.
On June 17 and 18, 2025, Princeton's Industrial Relations Section and Center for Health and Wellbeing hosted Festschrift conference celebrating Janet Currie’s contributions to Economics, especially in the field of Children's Health and Development.
Mike Schmidt, former Director of the CHIPS Program Office at the US Department of Commerce joins Princeton's Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies as a distinguished visitor.
Our annual roundup of the most noteworthy books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics from the prior year.
Irie joins the Economics Department and the Bendheim Center for Finance as an Assistant Professor of Economics.
The award is presented each year to the authors of the best paper submitted the prior year.
Congrats to the Class of 2025! A quick look at some of the biggest moments from this year’s Class Day celebration.
Co-sponsored by BCF and JRCPPF, 20 undergraduate students visited NYC for a finance and public policy trip.
Recently published by the IMF, Karthik Sastry's research theorizes that "viral narratives could be the missing link between emotions and economic fluctuations."
Econ major Karina Li ('26) received the FitzRandolph Gate Showcase Award for her presentation at the annual Princeton Research Day awards ceremony.
Neel U. Sukhatme, Ph.D. alumnus of Princeton's Economics Department, has recently been appointed as the Dean of Law at the University of Michigan.
Princeton Professor Ernest Liu and Econ major Astor Lu are among a team of economists who developed a new tool for monitoring supply chain disruptions. This tool, the Blue Center Index of Critical Supply Chain Disruptions, launched on April 23, 2025.
The prize is awarded annually to third-year Princeton graduate students who have excelled in their early studies of international trade or international macroeconomics.
Markus Brunnermeier delivered the keynote address at the 2025 SUERF Bruegel Workshop.
The Uwe Reinhardt Distinguished Lectureship was created to honor Uwe E. Reinhardt, Princeton’s James Madison Professor of Political Economy, professor of economics and public affairs.
Each year, Princeton IES invites a member of the international economics community to deliver the prestigious Graham Lecture.
