Events / Department of Economics

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Mobarak is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). He also co-chairs the Urban Services Initiative at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, […]

Join Professors Jonathan Conning, Armen Khederlarian and Sangeeta Pratap from the Economics Department, experts in international trade and its implications, for a discussion and Q&A on the effects of tariffs on consumers and producers in the US and around the world. 

Sharon Traiberman is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at NYU. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. His research interests are international trade and labor economics. Specifically, he studies the adjustment process for workers in response to changes in import costs: Which workers are able to successfully reallocate and on […]

David A. Rosenkranz, Ph.D., is an applied microeconomist at Fordham University studying the determinants of health care access, capacity investment, and utilization, including the effects of public policy and competition. He specializes in health economics and industrial organization. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the Wharton School, and […]

Sebastian Heise is a research economist in the Labor and Product Market Studies Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His main research focuses on long-term business relationships between firms and how such relationships influence the aggregate economy. His fields of interest include monetary economics, international trade, macro labor, firm-to-firm relationships, price setting […]

Eric is a Professor of Economics and of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His main research area is industrial development -- firms, innovation, productivity, trade, industrial policy, labor markets in developing countries. Several of his papers have been concerned with the process of quality upgrading -- why and how firms raise quality when […]

Benjamin Yang is an accounting doctoral student at the University of Washington. Prior to starting his PhD, he studied accounting and public health at the University of Texas, and worked as a multistate tax consultant for two years at Deloitte. His research interests primarily consist of using archival methods to study the relationship between firm […]

Eva is an Accounting PhD student at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. She received her Master's in Statistics from University of Minnesota.  Paper: "Workforce Diversity and Diversity Disclosures" Abstract: I examine the relationship between firms’ diversity disclosures and their actual workforce diversity captured by hand-collected EEO-1 data. I find that firms tend to disclose their diversity […]

Research Associate at the Indian School of Business (2016-19), Brand Manager at Godrej Consumer Products Limited (2015-16), Insights & Analytics Manager at L’Oreal India Pvt. Ltd. (2012-15), R&D Engineer at IBM India Pvt. Ltd. (2007-10), degree obtained MBA from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (2010-12) Paper: To Cure or not the Cure. The use of […]

Daniel is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan. His research interests lie in International Trade, Economic Geography, Urban Economics, and Development Economics.  His work is organized into two main agendas: Geography and scale externalities, which examines how the long-run distribution of economic activity across space is determined by scale externalities. Geography […]

Toshio Ferrazares is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses broadly on Labor and Public Economics with a primary interest in the economics of policing and public safety. He explores why police officers use force and what factors influence their behavior. Toshio’s solo-authored research […]

Laura is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an applied micro- and labor economist. Her research primarily focuses on labor market entrance and re-entry, crime, and education. Paper: Impact of College Major Skills on Lifetime Earnings and Occupational Sorting (Link) Abstract: This paper examines the impact […]

Erica is a PhD candidate at UC San Diego's Department of Economics focusing on environmental and natural resources economics. Her research uses techniques that range from theory, computational methods, and causal inference to understand how to design commodity-based systems, such as markets for food, that are minimally damaging to the environment. She has previously held […]

Luca is a PhD candidate in Economics at Brown University. His interests are in Economics of Crime, Political Economy and Labor Economics. His research focuses on the determinants and consequences of police behavior in the US. He also investigates the role of police culture and media scrutiny on police violent behavior. Paper: "Racial Discrimination Against […]

Ania Jaroszewicz is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at UC San Diego. Prior to joining UC San Diego, Professor Jaroszewicz was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Combining consumer behavior and behavioral economics, her research is guided by the goal of improving public policy and consumer well-being. Broadly, her work examines questions related to poverty […]

Pascaline Dupas is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is a development economist studying the challenges facing poor households in lower income countries and their root causes. Her goal is to identify interventions and policies that can help overcome these challenges and reduce global poverty. She conducts extensive fieldwork. Her ongoing […]

Archishman Chakraborty is the Mel Harris Chair in Insurance and Risk, and Chair of the Finance Department at the Syms School of Business, Yeshiva University. His research interests are in corporate finance, information economics, game theory, and market microstructure. Presented Paper: Selected Facts Author(s): Nemanja Antic1 and Archishman Chakraborty2 This version: September, 2024. Abstract: We […]

Matthew Neidell is an economics professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He received his PhD in economics from UCLA, and was a post-doc at the University of Chicago prior to joining Columbia. Neidell specializes in environmental, health, and labor economics, with research primarily focused at the intersections of these. […]

Lauri Kytomaa is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics and Policy at Cornell University's SC Johnson College of Business. Kytömaa earned his PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin and his MSc in economics from the London School of Economics. His interests lie in improving the design of consumer debt markets and […]

Bohdan Kukharskyy is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Baruch College. His research field is International Trade, with a particular focus on the analysis of global value chains and the organization of multinational firms across borders. Title: Opening the Black Box of Quantitative Trade Models Abstract: In the course of the U.S.–China trade war, the U.S. increased […]

Sandra E. Black is Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.  Since that time, she worked as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an Assistant, Associate, and ultimately Professor in the […]

Gautam Gowrisankaran is an expert in industrial organization, healthcare economics, and energy and environmental economics. Professor Gowrisankaran has analyzed issues of market definition and market power, the competitive effects of mergers, and claims of attempted monopolization. He has also addressed allegations of tying, foreclosure, and other exclusionary practices arising in such industries as healthcare, consumer […]