UW Economics Professor Pat Bajari has been elected as a board member of the Western Economic Association. The Western Economics Association is a non-profit academic society dedicated to the encouragement and dissemination of economic research and analysis. It publishes two quarterly journals: Economic Inquiry and Contemporary Economic Policy.
Recently, IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath released a… Read more
The Department of Economics is thrilled to announce the hiring of two new faculty members. Since last fall, search committees have been reviewing candidates for one full-time, tenure-track position in Macroeconomics at the rank of Assistant Professor, for which we received more than 400 applications, and one Assistant Teaching Professor position, for which we received more than 200 applications. The two search committees interviewed the candidates at the AEA conference in January, and invited… Read more
The Department of Economics is delighted to announce that Ramanan Laxminarayan has been chosen as the 2020 Distinguished alumnus. Laxminarayan received his PhD in Economics from our department in 1999. In the same year, Laxminarayan completed a concurrent Master’s degree in Public Health from the UW Department of Epidemiology. Laxminarayan received his undergraduate degree in instrumentation from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India.
Ramanan Laxminarayan is the… Read more
On February 25th, the department’s Visiting Committee unanimously elected Cary Oshima as the new Chair to serve a two-year term. His many years of dedication to both the Visiting Committee and the department make him an ideal candidate for the position. Christina Tapia, the outgoing chair, was also recognized for her years of service to the VC at the winter meeting.
Along with the previous three former Chairs of the VC, Christina formed a search committee in the Fall to determine a list of… Read more
Job Market Candidates and faculty enjoyed a few days in the sun in early January at the American Economics Association’s annual meeting, this year held in San Diego. Job Market Candidates from around the country were able to interview for faculty positions from numerous universities, and our faculty interviewed candidates for the two open positions in the department.
The faculty recruitment committee reviewed all of the candidates for the open position for a full-time, tenure-track position in… Read more