Read the latest department news, including faculty announcements, student achievements, and more.
Dr. Gita Gopinath—notable Princeton alumnus and current chief economist of the International Monetary Fund—answers questions about her career path and how she uses her training in economics to serve others.
Congratulations to the winners of the Class of 2021 Junior Prize
Last year’s Fortune Magazine Top 40 under 40 in Finance had a familiar face for faculty and staff at Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance: Céline Dufétel, a 2004 graduate of the center’s Master in Finance program.
Congratulations to Professor Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton Economics Professor and Director of Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance, on his election as Vice President of the American Finance Association.
What can you do with an Economics degree from Princeton? To find out, we checked in with several recent graduates.
Congratulations to Princeton BCF alumnus Anne-Victoire Auriault, who is one of 60 employees promoted as part of Goldman Sach's Partner Class of 2020.
The Economics Department at Princeton University is proud to introduce its Ph.D. students on the 2020 Economics Job Market.
The Princeton Economics team has advanced to the Federal Reserve College Fed Challenge semi-finals. Congrats to Stephanie Hu (’21, co-captain), Aditya Shah (’21, co-captain), William Carpenter (’21), Leland Domaratzky (’22), and Shivani Prusty (’23)!
In early September, Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance (Princeton BCF) hosted its 10th annual Princeton Initiative—an annual program that brings together 2nd-year Ph.D. students from around the world.
On September 21, 2020, faculty affiliated with the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies selected five students to present their policy-focused Junior Papers at the 2020 Griswold Center Junior Independent Work Research Forum.
Congratulations to Princeton Economics Professor Stephen Redding on his election to The Econometric Society as a 2020 Fellow.
The Economics Department at Princeton welcomes Sylvain Chassang, Pablo Fajgelbaum, John Grigsby, Anne Karing, Alessandro Lizzeri, and Xiaosheng Mu as new faculty members this fall.
Econometrica has announced that the 2020 Frisch Medal—one of the most prestigious awards in economics—will be presented to Princeton Professor Kate Ho, along with her co-author Robin Lee of Harvard University.
Princeton Economics is proud to support Professor Wantchekon's new initiative that, through a partnership between the African School of Economics and Hunter College in New York City, will take direct aim at the underrepresentation of Black and minority students in the field of economics.
The prospect of a major independent research project can be daunting to many students. To help guide the way, four members of the Class of 2020 offer advice on choosing research topics, overcoming challenges, and meeting looming deadlines.
Eduardo Morales has been awarded the Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Economic Research in recognition of his research on companies’ strategic decisions and how they contribute to their export performance and capacity for innovation.
In these videos, 2020 Senior Thesis prize winners talk about their project, what motivated it, and what they learned.
As doctoral candidates prepared for a major right of passage, they suddenly had to make plans to defend their dissertations virtually
Congratulations to Jacob Berman, a Princeton Economics senior also enrolled in the Program in Political Economy and working toward the Certificate of Finance, on being one of ten students to win the 2020 Spirit of Princeton Award.
The paper, titled Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark, uses Danish administrative data to study the impacts of children on gender inequality in the labor market.
The Economics Department at Princeton University is pleased to announce that the Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the promotions of Michal Kolesár, Eduardo Morales, and Owen Zidar to the role of full professor.
