Recent News

May 28, 2013: Abraham Appointed as Director of Center for Economic Policy
May 28, 2013: Haltiwanger receives 2013 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics
May 16, 2013: Guido Kuersteiner to Join Economics Faculty in Fall 2013
May 16, 2013: Andrew Sweeting to Join Economics in Fall 2013
May 14, 2013: Peter Murrell appointed as first Mancur Olson Professor of Economics
May 14, 2013: John Haltiwanger appointed as first Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor of Economics
May 2, 2013: Conference on Skills, Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Employment, Productivity and Skills Network
April 25, 2013: Professor Galiani elected to the National Bureau of Economic Research
April 18, 2013: Teresa Fort, Economics PhD graduate, named as a recipient of the University of Maryland Distinguished Dissertation Award
April 17, 2013: Good Tidings in State Funding
April 9, 2013: Washington Area Development Economics Symposium
April 6, 2013: UMD Economics among Top 25 Graduate School Programs
April 5, 2013: Washington Area International Trade Symposium
March 25, 2013: Professor Galiani Elected Fellow of BREAD
March 7, 2013: Professor Galiani’s work on informality chosen as the best 2012 paper published by the Economic Inquiry
February 25, 2013: Professor Kalemli-Ozcan’s research highlighted by the National Bureau of Economic Research
January 2, 2013: Professor Haltiwanger on Hiring and Vacancies
January 2, 2013: Who says there's no free lunch?
December 10, 2012: Economics Among Best Paid Majors
November 28, 2012: Professor Drazen on Effects of Changes in Leaders on Government Expenditure
November 27, 2012: Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi awarded Kauffman Foundation Grant
November 9, 2012: Announcing the Inaugural Department of Economics High School Challenge
November 1, 2012: Professor Haltiwanger on Cross Country Differences in Productivity
November 1, 2012: ADP Uses Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti Index
October 22, 2012: Wonnacott on the “Economic Case for Reciprocal Trade Agreements”