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Department of Economics


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair: Janet Currie, Ph.D.
1014 International Affairs Building
Tel: 212.854.4520


Director of Graduate Studies: Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Doctorat
1009A International Affairs Building
Tel: 212.854.6369


Dissertation Sponsors

Stefania Albanesi:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D, Northwestern, 2001
Interests: Macroeconomics, Public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Douglas Almond:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., Berkeley, 2002
Interests: Labor economics, health economics, education
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Massimiliano Amarante:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1999
Interests: Game theory, decision theory, contract theory, microeconomics, mathematical economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kyle Bagwell:
Kelvin J. Lancaster Professor of Economic Theory, Ph.D., Stanford, 1986
Interests: Industrial organization, international trade, game theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jagdish Bhagwati:
University Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1967
Interests: International trade and development, political economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Patrick Bolton:
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1986
Interests: Contract theory, corporate finance, industrial organization, law and economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alessandra Casella:
Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1988
Interests: Macroeconomics, international economics and trade, political economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Yeon-Koo Che:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1991
Interests: Industrial organization, microeconomics, contract and organizational economics, law and economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pierre-Andre Chiappori:
E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics, Doctorat, University of Paris, 1981
Interests: Micro: risk, insurance, household behavior, contract theory, Macro: general equilibrium; contract and organizational economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Graciela Chichilnisky:
Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1976
Interests: Microeconomics, economic theory, international economics, development and public economics, globalization and environment
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard H. Clarida:
C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics (Economics, International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Harvard, 1983
Interests: International monetary theory and policy, international macroeconimics, macroeconomics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Janet Currie:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1988
Interests: Labor, health economics, public economics, education economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Donald Davis:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1992
Interests: International Trade, development economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Padma Desai:
Gladys and Roland HarrimanProfessor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1960
Interests: Tranistion economy reforms, global capital mobility and financial crisis in emerging market economies, gender issues in Russia, development economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Phoebus J. Dhrymes:
Edwin P. Rickert Professor of Economics, Ph.D., MIT, 1961
Interests: Econometric theory, economics of productivity
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Prajit K. Dutta:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1987
Interests: Finance, industrial organization, microeconomics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lena Edlund:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stockholm School of Economics, 1996
Interests: Family economics, economic demography, labor economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Susan Elmes:
Lecturer, Ph.D., Princeton, 1991
Interests: Game theory, Microeconomics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ronald E. Findlay:
Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics, Ph.D., MIT, 1960
Interests: International trade, development. political economy and economic theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Katherine Ho:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2005
Interests: Industrial organization, health economics, education economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
R. Glenn Hubbard:
Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance, Ph.D., Harvard, 1983
Interests: Public economics, macroeconomics, financial economics, industrial organization
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wojciech Kopczuk:
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2001
Interests: Microeconomics and public finance, Tax policy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dennis Kristensen:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., London School of Economics, 2004
Interests: Econometric Theory, Applied Microeconomics, Empirical Finance
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Leigh Linden:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., MIT, 2004
Interests: Development Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics and Political Economy;Determinants of child labor; markets for occupational health risks, applied microeconomics, political economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
W. Bentley MacLeod:
Professor, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1984
Interests: Organization economics, labor economics, law and economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Massimo Morelli:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1996
Interests: Game theory, mechanism design, politicial economy, behavorial and public economics, comparative economics and international relations
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert Mundell:
University Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1956
Interests: International macroeconomics; international trade
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Emi Nakamura:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2007
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Serena Ng:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1993
Interests: Macroeconomics, time series, econometrics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Brendan O'Flaherty:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1980
Interests: Economic theory; game theory; Urban economics, race, housing, public economics, political economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alexei Onatski:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2001
Interests: Econometrics, robust decision making
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Edmund S. Phelps:
McVickar Professor of Political Economics, Ph.D., Yale, 1959
Interests: Macroeconomics; public finance, capitalism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Cristian Pop-Eleches:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2003
Interests: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Demography and Transition Economies, labor economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bruce Preston:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2003
Interests: Macroeconomics, monetary economics, learning, econometrics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michael H. Riordan:
laurans A. and Arlene Mendelson Professor of Economics and Business, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1981
Interests: Industrial organization, regulation, economics of information and organization, contract theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jeffrey Sachs:
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Ph.D., Harvard, 1980
Interests: Sustainable development;Economic development, technological change and growth, agricultural and natural resource economics, health, education and welfare, international macroeconomics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Xavier Sala-i-Martin:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1990
Interests: Economic growth; macroeconomics, development economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bernard Salanie:
Professor, Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1992
Interests: Contract theory, labor, microeconomics, organizational economics, econometrics, public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wolfram Schlenker:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., Berkeley, 2003
Interests: Applied microeconomics, natural resource economics, environmental economics, health economics, education economics, public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jon Steinsson:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2007
Interests: Macroeconomics, International economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joseph E. Stiglitz:
Chaired Professorship of Business and Finance, Ph.D., MIT, 1967
Interests: Information and financial economics, macro and monetary theory, development and international economics, microeconomics, industrial organization, contract and orginizational economics, macroeconomics, public economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Miguel Urquiola:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 2000
Interests: Public economics, development economics, education; Class size, developing countries, international policy and economics of education
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eric Verhoogen:
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 2004
Interests: Development economics; labor economics; international trade, Latin America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Till von Wachter:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 2003
Interests: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics and Economics of Aging
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Edward J. Vytlacil:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2000
Interests: Econometrics, labor economics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Weinstein:
Carl Sumner Shoup Professor of Japanese Economy, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1991
Interests: International trade, the Japanese economy, corporate finance, and industrial policy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michael Woodford:
John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Ph.D., MIT, 1983
Interests: Macroeconomics, monetary economics, international macroeconomics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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