Professor Elhanan Helpman Awarded 2012 Onassis Prize for International Trade
(May 14, 2012) Professor Elhanan Helpman of the Harvard University Department of Economics has received the 2012 Onassis Prize for International Trade.
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Harvard Receives the Top Ranking for a Third Year in Tilburg University’s Worldwide Economics Research Ranking for Universities
(May 9, 2012) The Harvard University Economics Department has received, for the third year in a row, the top ranking in Tilburg University’s Worldwide Economics Research Ranking for Universities.
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Professor Susan Athey Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
(May 1, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Susan Athey has been named as one of the 84 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Professor Eric Maskin Awarded Honorary Degree from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
(April 3, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Eric Maskin was recently awarded the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
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Professor Tomasz Strzalecki Named as 2012 Sloan Research Fellow
(February 16, 2012) Harvard Assistant Professor of Economics Tomasz Strzalecki has been named as one of the 2012 Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Professor Amartya Sen Awarded 2011 National Humanities Medal by President Obama
(February 13, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Amartya Sen is one of nine scholars named by President Obama to receive the 2011 National Humanities Medal.
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New Study on the Long-Term Impacts of Teachers by Harvard Professors Raj Chetty and John Friedman Wins Wide Acclaim
(February 1, 2012) Harvard University economists Raj Chetty and John Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia University recently released a paper entitled “The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood.”
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Professor Claudia Goldin named AEA President-Elect 2012
(January 25, 2012) Claudia Goldin has been named President-Elect 2012, by The American Economic Association.
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Benmelech Receives 2011 Top Prize From Brattle Group
(January 17, 2012) Professor Efraim Benmelech of the Harvard Department of Economics has been awarded the 2011 Brattle Group first prize for the best corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Finance.
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Professor Jeremy Stein Nominated to Federal Reserve Board of Governors
(January 10, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Jeremy Stein has been nominated by President Barack Obama to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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Professor David Laibson Named as Award Winner of the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security
(December 2, 2011) Professor David Laibson of the Harvard University Economics Department has been named as a winner of the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security.
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Professor Eric Maskin, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Returns to Harvard
(October 26, 2011) Professor Eric Maskin, will return to the Harvard Economics Department in Spring 2012 after ten years teaching and conducting research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
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Professor Roland Fryer Awarded the Calvó-Armengol International Prize for 2012
(October 17, 2011) Roland Fryer has been awarded the 2nd Calvó-Armengol International Prize, promoted by the Barcelona GSE, the Government of Andorra, and the Crčdit Andorrŕ Foundation.
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Harvard University Economics Ranked First by QS World University Rankings and Tilburg University Top 100 Economics Schools for 2011
(October 11, 2011) The Harvard University Department of Economics has ranked at the top among university programs in Economics in a global survey by QS World University Rankings for 2011 and in the Tilburg University Top 100 of Economics Schools Research Ranking.
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Professor Roland Fryer Named as 2011 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
(September 20, 2011) Professor Roland Fryer was recently named as one of 22 MacArthur Foundation Fellows to receive a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship in 2011.
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Professor Emmanuel Farhi Awarded the AFSE Edmond Malinvaud Prize for 2011
(September 6, 2011) Professor Emmanuel Farhi has recently been awarded the Edmond Malinvaud Prize for 2011 by the Association Française de Science Economique in Paris.
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Oliver Hart’s paper celebrated at Brussels Conference
(July 21, 2011) A paper by Oliver Hart and Sanford Grossman was celebrated June 24-26, 2011 at a conference in Brussels: "Grossman and Hart at 25." The conference commemorated the upcoming 25th anniversary of the publication of “The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration,” the authors’ study on contractual rights and ownership.
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Professor Gary Chamberlain Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
(May 4, 2011) Harvard Economics Professor Gary Chamberlain has recently been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, announced to the public on May 3, 2011.
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World Economic Forum Names Professor Gita Gopinath as Young Global Leader for 2011
(April 25, 2011) Professor Gita Gopinath was recently chosen as one of the Young Global Leaders for 2011 by the World Economic Forum, publically announced on March 9 by the WEF.
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President Obama Appoints Professor Susan Athey to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science
(April 22, 2011) Susan Athey has been named by President Obama as an Appointee for Member to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.
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Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Williamson's New Book Published by MIT Press
(March 16, 2011) This book explains how the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.
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Harvard Economics Welcomes Gita Gopinath as Professor of Economics
(February 11, 2011) The Harvard Economics Department welcomes Gita Gopinath as Professor of Economics.
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Harvard Economics Welcomes Emmanuel Farhi as Professor of Economics
(February 11, 2011) The Harvard Economics Department is pleased to announce that Emmanuel Farhi has accepted the position of Professor of Economics.
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Professor Ken Rogoff Awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics for 2011
(February 10, 2011) Professor Ken Rogoff of the Harvard Economics Department has recently been awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2011
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Professor Ed Glaeser's New Book Triumph of the City Published by Penguin Press
(February 10, 2011) The Penguin Press has recently published Harvard Economics Professor Ed Glaeser’s new book Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier.
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Harvard at the Top in Tilburg University’s Worldwide Economics Research Ranking for Universities
(January 11, 2011) Recognizing the need for a worldwide research ranking for economics comparable to those carried out by the University of Texas, Dallas for business schools and by Arizona State University for finance research, Tilburg University in the Netherlands has published a ranking based on counting all faculty publications in 68 economics journals in the five-year period 2005-09.
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Department-Wide Seminar - Harris Lecture Series
(November 23, 2010) Tony Atkinson,(Nuffield College, Oxford), Taussig visiting professor, presents his paper, "Inequality and Financial Crises," on Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 at the Economics Department-Wide Seminar.
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Harvard Economics Professors Campbell, Stein, Scharfstein offer contributions to The Squam Lake Report on Financial Reform
(November 16, 2010) Harvard Professors John Campbell, Jeremy Stein, and David Scharfstein contributed to The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System, a long-term plan and series of recommendations for financial regulation reform authored by fifteen leading academic economists, published in June 2010 by Princeton University Press.
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Tufts Institute Will Award Annual Economics Prize to Nicholas Stern and Martin Weitzman
(November 15, 2010) Tufts University’s Global Development And Environment Institute announced that it will award its 2011 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics and Harvard’s Martin Weitzman. The award recognizes the critical role played by these researchers in analyzing the economic dimensions of climate change.
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Harvard Economics Faculty Speak at President Drew Faust’s University-wide Forum on the Economy
(October 15, 2010) On Tuesday, October 12, Professors John Campbell, Richard Freeman, and Ken Rogoff of the Harvard Economics Department participated in a University-wide forum convened by Harvard President Drew Faust to address and discuss issues arising from the economic recession.
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Professor James Stock attends annual Federal Reserve Conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
(October 4, 2010) Professor James Stock recently took part in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s symposium on “Macroeconomic Policy: Post-Crisis and Risks Ahead” at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 26-28, 2010. Prof. Stock and his co-author Prof. Mark Watson of Princeton University presented a paper at the conference.
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Erica Field awarded The Elaine Bennett Research Prize
(October 4, 2010) Associate Professor Erica Field of the Harvard Economics Department has been awarded The Elaine Bennett Research Prize.
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Ernst Fehr to deliver Economics Department's fall seminar
(October 1, 2010) Ernst Fehr of the University of Zurich will deliver the Economics Department's fall seminar on Wednesday, October 13th at 4pm.
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National Research Council assessment ranks Harvard Ph.D Program in Economics at the top among Research Doctoral Programs
(October 1, 2010) The Ph.D program in Economics at Harvard University has been ranked at the top in the National Research Council’s Data-Based Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs, released on September 28, 2010
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Professor Kenneth Rogoff elected to the National Academy of Sciences
(April 28, 2010) On April 27th, 2010 the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members, including Professor Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard’s Department of Economics.
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Harvard Professor Elhanan Helpman Receives 2010 Nemmers Prize
(April 14, 2010) Professor Elhanan Helpman of the Harvard Department of Economics has been awarded one of the 2010 Nemmers prizes by Northwestern University for his work in international economics and trade policy.
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Harvard Economics welcomes Alp Simsek to the position of Assistant Professor of Economics
(March 29, 2010) The Harvard Economics Department is pleased to welcome Alp Simsek to the position of Assistant Professor of Economics. Alp's research is focused on macroeconomics and finance.
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János Kornai receives the highest Hungarian state decoration
(March 26, 2010) On March 15, 2010 the Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, was awarded to János Kornai, Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics Emeritus of Harvard University and Permanent Fellow Emeritus of Collegium Budapest.
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Emmanuel Farhi wins 2009 Bernácer Prize.
(March 24, 2010) Assistant Professor Emmanuel Farhi has won the 2009 Bernácer Prize that is awarded annually to European economists under the age of 40 who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance.
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Professor János Kornai receives prestigious Leontief Medal
(March 3, 2010) János Kornai, Professor of Economics Emeritus of Harvard University and Collegium Budapest, has been awarded the Leontief Medal.
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Professor Emmanuel Farhi Selected as Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
(February 23, 2010) Emmanuel Farhi, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard, has been selected as Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and grant recipient.
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Harvard Receives the Top Ranking for a Third Year in Tilburg University’s Worldwide Economics Research Ranking for Universities
(May 9, 2012) The Harvard University Economics Department has received, for the third year in a row, the top ranking in Tilburg University’s Worldwide Economics Research Ranking for Universities.
>> Read More
Professor Susan Athey Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
(May 1, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Susan Athey has been named as one of the 84 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Professor Eric Maskin Awarded Honorary Degree from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
(April 3, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Eric Maskin was recently awarded the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
>> Read More
Professor Tomasz Strzalecki Named as 2012 Sloan Research Fellow
(February 16, 2012) Harvard Assistant Professor of Economics Tomasz Strzalecki has been named as one of the 2012 Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Professor Amartya Sen Awarded 2011 National Humanities Medal by President Obama
(February 13, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Amartya Sen is one of nine scholars named by President Obama to receive the 2011 National Humanities Medal.
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New Study on the Long-Term Impacts of Teachers by Harvard Professors Raj Chetty and John Friedman Wins Wide Acclaim
(February 1, 2012) Harvard University economists Raj Chetty and John Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia University recently released a paper entitled “The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood.”
>> Read More
Professor Claudia Goldin named AEA President-Elect 2012
(January 25, 2012) Claudia Goldin has been named President-Elect 2012, by The American Economic Association.
>> Read More
Benmelech Receives 2011 Top Prize From Brattle Group
(January 17, 2012) Professor Efraim Benmelech of the Harvard Department of Economics has been awarded the 2011 Brattle Group first prize for the best corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Finance.
>> Read More
Professor Jeremy Stein Nominated to Federal Reserve Board of Governors
(January 10, 2012) Harvard Economics Professor Jeremy Stein has been nominated by President Barack Obama to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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Professor David Laibson Named as Award Winner of the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security
(December 2, 2011) Professor David Laibson of the Harvard University Economics Department has been named as a winner of the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security.
>> Read More
Professor Eric Maskin, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Returns to Harvard
(October 26, 2011) Professor Eric Maskin, will return to the Harvard Economics Department in Spring 2012 after ten years teaching and conducting research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
>> Read More
Professor Roland Fryer Awarded the Calvó-Armengol International Prize for 2012
(October 17, 2011) Roland Fryer has been awarded the 2nd Calvó-Armengol International Prize, promoted by the Barcelona GSE, the Government of Andorra, and the Crčdit Andorrŕ Foundation.
>> Read More
Harvard University Economics Ranked First by QS World University Rankings and Tilburg University Top 100 Economics Schools for 2011
(October 11, 2011) The Harvard University Department of Economics has ranked at the top among university programs in Economics in a global survey by QS World University Rankings for 2011 and in the Tilburg University Top 100 of Economics Schools Research Ranking.
>> Read More
Professor Roland Fryer Named as 2011 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
(September 20, 2011) Professor Roland Fryer was recently named as one of 22 MacArthur Foundation Fellows to receive a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship in 2011.
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Professor Emmanuel Farhi Awarded the AFSE Edmond Malinvaud Prize for 2011
(September 6, 2011) Professor Emmanuel Farhi has recently been awarded the Edmond Malinvaud Prize for 2011 by the Association Française de Science Economique in Paris.
>> Read More
Oliver Hart’s paper celebrated at Brussels Conference
(July 21, 2011) A paper by Oliver Hart and Sanford Grossman was celebrated June 24-26, 2011 at a conference in Brussels: "Grossman and Hart at 25." The conference commemorated the upcoming 25th anniversary of the publication of “The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration,” the authors’ study on contractual rights and ownership.
>> Read More
Professor Gary Chamberlain Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
(May 4, 2011) Harvard Economics Professor Gary Chamberlain has recently been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, announced to the public on May 3, 2011.
>> Read More
World Economic Forum Names Professor Gita Gopinath as Young Global Leader for 2011
(April 25, 2011) Professor Gita Gopinath was recently chosen as one of the Young Global Leaders for 2011 by the World Economic Forum, publically announced on March 9 by the WEF.
>> Read More
President Obama Appoints Professor Susan Athey to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science
(April 22, 2011) Susan Athey has been named by President Obama as an Appointee for Member to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.
>> Read More
Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Williamson's New Book Published by MIT Press
(March 16, 2011) This book explains how the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.
>> Read More
Harvard Economics Welcomes Gita Gopinath as Professor of Economics
(February 11, 2011) The Harvard Economics Department welcomes Gita Gopinath as Professor of Economics.
>> Read More
Harvard Economics Welcomes Emmanuel Farhi as Professor of Economics
(February 11, 2011) The Harvard Economics Department is pleased to announce that Emmanuel Farhi has accepted the position of Professor of Economics.
>> Read More
Professor Ken Rogoff Awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics for 2011
(February 10, 2011) Professor Ken Rogoff of the Harvard Economics Department has recently been awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2011
>> Read More
Professor Ed Glaeser's New Book Triumph of the City Published by Penguin Press
(February 10, 2011) The Penguin Press has recently published Harvard Economics Professor Ed Glaeser’s new book Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier.
>> Read More
Harvard at the Top in Tilburg University’s Worldwide Economics Research Ranking for Universities
(January 11, 2011) Recognizing the need for a worldwide research ranking for economics comparable to those carried out by the University of Texas, Dallas for business schools and by Arizona State University for finance research, Tilburg University in the Netherlands has published a ranking based on counting all faculty publications in 68 economics journals in the five-year period 2005-09.
>> Read More
Department-Wide Seminar - Harris Lecture Series
(November 23, 2010) Tony Atkinson,(Nuffield College, Oxford), Taussig visiting professor, presents his paper, "Inequality and Financial Crises," on Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 at the Economics Department-Wide Seminar.
>> Read More
Harvard Economics Professors Campbell, Stein, Scharfstein offer contributions to The Squam Lake Report on Financial Reform
(November 16, 2010) Harvard Professors John Campbell, Jeremy Stein, and David Scharfstein contributed to The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System, a long-term plan and series of recommendations for financial regulation reform authored by fifteen leading academic economists, published in June 2010 by Princeton University Press.
>> Read More
Tufts Institute Will Award Annual Economics Prize to Nicholas Stern and Martin Weitzman
(November 15, 2010) Tufts University’s Global Development And Environment Institute announced that it will award its 2011 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics and Harvard’s Martin Weitzman. The award recognizes the critical role played by these researchers in analyzing the economic dimensions of climate change.
>> Read More
Harvard Economics Faculty Speak at President Drew Faust’s University-wide Forum on the Economy
(October 15, 2010) On Tuesday, October 12, Professors John Campbell, Richard Freeman, and Ken Rogoff of the Harvard Economics Department participated in a University-wide forum convened by Harvard President Drew Faust to address and discuss issues arising from the economic recession.
>> Read More
Professor James Stock attends annual Federal Reserve Conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
(October 4, 2010) Professor James Stock recently took part in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s symposium on “Macroeconomic Policy: Post-Crisis and Risks Ahead” at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 26-28, 2010. Prof. Stock and his co-author Prof. Mark Watson of Princeton University presented a paper at the conference.
>> Read More
Erica Field awarded The Elaine Bennett Research Prize
(October 4, 2010) Associate Professor Erica Field of the Harvard Economics Department has been awarded The Elaine Bennett Research Prize.
>> Read More
Ernst Fehr to deliver Economics Department's fall seminar
(October 1, 2010) Ernst Fehr of the University of Zurich will deliver the Economics Department's fall seminar on Wednesday, October 13th at 4pm.
>> Read More
National Research Council assessment ranks Harvard Ph.D Program in Economics at the top among Research Doctoral Programs
(October 1, 2010) The Ph.D program in Economics at Harvard University has been ranked at the top in the National Research Council’s Data-Based Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs, released on September 28, 2010
>> Read More
Professor Kenneth Rogoff elected to the National Academy of Sciences
(April 28, 2010) On April 27th, 2010 the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members, including Professor Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard’s Department of Economics.
>> Read More
Harvard Professor Elhanan Helpman Receives 2010 Nemmers Prize
(April 14, 2010) Professor Elhanan Helpman of the Harvard Department of Economics has been awarded one of the 2010 Nemmers prizes by Northwestern University for his work in international economics and trade policy.
>> Read More
Harvard Economics welcomes Alp Simsek to the position of Assistant Professor of Economics
(March 29, 2010) The Harvard Economics Department is pleased to welcome Alp Simsek to the position of Assistant Professor of Economics. Alp's research is focused on macroeconomics and finance.
>> Read More
János Kornai receives the highest Hungarian state decoration
(March 26, 2010) On March 15, 2010 the Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, was awarded to János Kornai, Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics Emeritus of Harvard University and Permanent Fellow Emeritus of Collegium Budapest.
>> Read More
Emmanuel Farhi wins 2009 Bernácer Prize.
(March 24, 2010) Assistant Professor Emmanuel Farhi has won the 2009 Bernácer Prize that is awarded annually to European economists under the age of 40 who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance.
>> Read More
Professor János Kornai receives prestigious Leontief Medal
(March 3, 2010) János Kornai, Professor of Economics Emeritus of Harvard University and Collegium Budapest, has been awarded the Leontief Medal.
>> Read More
Professor Emmanuel Farhi Selected as Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
(February 23, 2010) Emmanuel Farhi, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard, has been selected as Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and grant recipient.
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