The 2013 Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics has been awarded to Harvard Professor Raj Chetty by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics in partnership with the Government of Andorra and the Credit Andorrà Foundation.
(August 2, 2012) Professor Maximilian Kasy has joined the Department of Economics at Harvard University as Assistant Professor of Economics.
Professor Kasy holds the degrees of Mag.rer.nat. in Mathematics and Mag.rer.soc.oec. in Economics from the University of Vienna, and both a M.A. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
His research interests include identification and parameters of interest in microeconometrics, econometric methods for the analysis of...
(August 2, 2012) Melissa Dell has joined the Harvard University Department of Economics as an associate of the department. She is also a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University for the next two years.
Her appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics will begin on July 1, 2014.
Melissa has an A.B. degree in Economics from Harvard University, M.Phil in Economics from Oxford University, and Ph.D in Economics from MIT.
(July 25, 2012) Professor Oliver Hart of the Harvard University Economics Department was awarded an honorary degree at the University of Warwick Summer Degree Congregation in a ceremony on Friday, July 20, 2012.
Professor Hart is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. Born in the U.K., he holds a B.A. in mathematics from King's College, Cambridge, an M.A. in economics from the University of Warwick, and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. He taught at the London School of Economics and the...
(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 and in the Tilburg University Top 100 of Economics Schools Research Rankings for 2011.
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings are determined by using six criteria: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty student ratio, citations per faculty, number of international faculty members, and number of international students. These criteria are scored using a global...