(October 29, 2009) University of Maryland co-author Professor Carmen Reinhart and Harvard Economics Professor Kenneth Rogoff have recently released their new book, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, published by Princeton University Press.
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(September 22, 2009) Associate Professor Effi Benmelech has received a NSF Career Award entitled "Empirical Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Financial Distress."
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(September 21, 2009) The Report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress was released by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on September 14, 2009. Harvard Economics Professor Amartya Sen attended the release in Paris in his role as Chair Advisor to the Commission.
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(September 21, 2009) Amartya Sen’s book, The Idea of Justice, will be published by Harvard University Press on September 30th 2009.
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(August 21, 2009) The Harvard Economics Department is pleased to welcome Tomasz Strzalecki to the position of Assistant Professor of Economics. Tomasz's research is focused on decision theory and microeconomic theory.
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(August 21, 2009) The Harvard Economics Department is pleased to welcome Richard Hornbeck to the position of Assistant Professor of Economics. Rick's research is focused on Economic History and Development.
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(August 21, 2009) The Harvard Economics Department is pleased to welcome Marc Melitz to the position of Professor of Economics. Marc's research is focused on producer-level responses to globalization.
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(July 13, 2009) Professor Amartya Sen of Harvard University’s Economics Department was one of five recipients given an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin on July 10.
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(June 9, 2009) Pol Antràs, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, received the Banco Herrero Foundation prize for a researcher younger than 40 years of age for his outstanding educational trajectory and research.
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(May 18, 2009) Six students from the Economics Department at Harvard University were among the 83 undergraduates who received the distinguished Hoopes Prize for outstanding academic research work.
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(May 13, 2009) Professors Oliver Hart and John Campbell of Harvard’s Department of Economics were recently named as two of three honorary degree recipients for their professional work on Contract Theory and Finance, respectively, at the Université Paris-Dauphine, considered to be the best school for Economics and Finance in Paris.
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(May 12, 2009) Professor Susan Athey of Harvard’s Department of Economics was one of seven recipients awarded an honorary degree from Duke University at the school’s May 10 commencement exercises this year, 2009.
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(April 21, 2009) The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced the election of new fellows for 2009 including: Philippe Aghion, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics; Benjamin Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy; and Guido Imbens, Professor of Economics.
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(April 14, 2009) Professor Dwight Perkins, the Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, will speak in the 2009 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures on the topic of Economic Transformation in East Asia April 15-17, 2009.
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(March 16, 2009) Ph.D. student, Tarek Hassan, of the Harvard University Department of Economics has won the Klaus Liebscher Award from the Oesterreichische Nationalbank of Austria for the best paper on Monetary Unions.
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(February 20, 2009) Erica Field and Nathan Nunn, both Assistant Professors of Economics at Harvard, have been selected as Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows and grant recipients.
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(February 9, 2009) Professor Martin Feldstein will serve on Obama's newly created Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
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(January 30, 2009) Professor Jeremy C. Stein will be joining the Obama administration in Washington D.C.
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(December 19, 2008) India has gifted 4.5 million dollars to Harvard University to establish a fund for 'India Fellowships given in honor of Amartya Sen' for Indian students at its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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(December 11, 2008) The Harvard Economics Department is pleased to welcome Raj Chetty to the position of Professor of Economics. Raj's research is focused on theoretical and empirical issues in the design of tax and social insurance programs.
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(December 5, 2008) Under the direction of Prof. Benjamin Friedman, the Harvard University College Fed Challenge team won the national competition for the second year running on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.
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(November 26, 2008) Professor Lawrence H. Summers named by President Barack Obama as director of the National Economic Council (NEC).
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(November 13, 2008) Please join us for the Economics Department Faculty Book Series presentation of The Race Between Education and Technology by Professors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz on Tuesday, November 18, 2008.
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(October 2, 2008) The New York Association for Business Economists will present its annual William F. Butler award to Professor Martin Feldstein on October 14, 2008.
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(October 1, 2008) Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer has received a major grant from the Broad Foundation in support of his work to reform the national school systems within the United States.
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(September 23, 2008) There will be a special panel discussion on this Thursday, September 25, entitled "Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts." The panel will begin at 4:00 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.
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(September 11, 2008) We are pleased to announce that Eric Chaney (Economic History, UC Berkeley University) joined our faculty as Assistant Professor.
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(August 1, 2008) Prof. Goldin and Prof. Katz co-authored a new book, “The Race Between Education and Technology” which provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century.
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(August 1, 2008) Professor Friedman awarded the Medal of the Italian Senate by the Pio Manzù Centre in recognition of his work regarding the moral consequences of economic growth.
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(June 13, 2008) On June 9, 2008, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign announced Jason Furman, who received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2003, as economic policy director.
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(June 9, 2008) Michael Sperling (affiliated with both the Economics and Government Departments) was announced as the winner of the 2008 John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize.
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(June 9, 2008) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, a 1975 Harvard Economics Department graduate, was chosen by a student panel to speak at the Class Day ceremony for departing seniors.
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(May 16, 2008) Seventy-four students received the distinguished Hoopes Prize for outstanding academic research work. Among them were ten students from the Economics Department…
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(May 9, 2008) Prof. David Laibson of the Harvard University Economics Department is among six faculty named as Harvard College Professors this spring…
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(May 2, 2008) Professor Roland Fryer of the Economics Department at Harvard University has received a NSF Career Award entitled “New Methods for Understanding Race, Inequality and Spatial Separation”...
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(April 30, 2008) Professors Susan Athey and Jeremy Stein of the Economics Department were elected as 2008 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences…
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(April 18, 2008) A Panel Discussion hosted by the Harvard Department of Economics on Tuesday, April 29th from 4-5pm in the Science Center C featuring...
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(February 13, 2008) Please join us for the premiere event of the new Economics Faculty Book series featuring The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community by Prof. Stephen Marglin on Monday, February 25th.
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(January 15, 2008) Raj Chetty, who did his undergraduate and PhD(‘03) work at Harvard, won The American magazine’s 2008 Young Economist Award, a research grant of $100,000…
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(November 29, 2007) Under the direction of Prof. Benjamin Friedman, the Harvard University College Fed Challenge team won first place in the 2007 nation championship…
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(November 14, 2007) We are pleased to announce that Gregory Lewis (IO - Michigan) joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor.
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(September 26, 2007) Harvard PhDs Eric S. Maskin ('76) and Roger B. Myerson ('76) will share this year's Nobel Prize in economics with Leonid Hurwicz for their work on how people's knowledge and self-interest affect their behavior in the market or in social situations such as voting and labor negotiations.
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(September 26, 2007) We are pleased to announce that Nathan Nunn (International, Macro-Toronto) joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor.
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(September 25, 2007) Martin Feldstein, the George F. Baker Professor in the Economics Department awarded one of four Bradley Foundation prizes...
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(September 24, 2007) Professor Susan Athey of the Economics Department is the 2007 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal...
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