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LATEST NEWS

Faculty Recruitment: we are hiring one or more full-time, tenure-track faculty members during this hiring cycle. Fields: Environmental Economics or Health Economics.   For more information, please see the Faculty Position: JOE ad and Faculty positions: online application link.

 

The Economics Department welcomes two new Assistant Professors this fall:

Aaron Popp (PhD Ohio State University) is a macroeconomist who studies topics like the effects of unemployment insurance on the economy as a whole and the effects of uncertainty on the US and other economies during recessions and expansions.  He is also developing models to better understand the causes and effects of seasonal fluctuations in the economy.

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Dr. Aaron Popp

Alberto Rivera Padilla (PhD Arizona State University) is an economist with interest in macroeconomic approaches to economic development. His research focuses on how labor mobility across sectors and regions within countries affects aggregate outcomes in the economy. 

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Dr. Alberto Rivera Padilla

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The next seminar in our Economics Fall Seminar Series will take place on November 15.

Mireille Jacobson from the University of Southern California will present her joint work with Abby Alpert and Sarah Dykstra, entitled "How do Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Reduce Opioid Prescribing: Hassle Costs, Salience or Information?"

When: November 15 from 2:30 - 3:45 pm

Where: SGMH 1303

Everybody is welcome to attend.

 Please see the Seminar Schedule Fall 2019.