Economics
Upcoming Events
Women in Economics (WiE) and Econ Club
Guest Speaker: Nicholas Sly, Vice President, Economist, and Denver Branch Executive at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
The Econ Club and Women in Economics are hosting Nicholas Sly. Nick will be giving a conversational, no-slide-deck briefing. He’ll walk students through the national and regional outlook and discuss key indicators shaping Colorado, New Mexico, and the broader Tenth District. Topics will include employment, inflation, housing, GDP, energy, agriculture, banking, and current monetary policy.
Spring Classes
Spring classes begin Thursday, January 8. Important dates can be found on the university's Academic Calendar and watch the course schedule for the latest changes and updates to Economics courses. If you have any questions about courses or recitation schedules please email kit.colombo@colorado.edu.
Winter Recognition Ceremony
Social Sciences (SSCI) will be hosting the Winter Recognition Ceremony this year for SSCI graduates.
Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom in UMC • When: Saturday, December 13, 2025 from 9 a.m.–Noon
2025–26 Seminar Series
For future seminars check out the seminar series calendar, all seminars are held 3–4:30 p.m. in Seminar Room 5 unless otherwise noted.
Announcements
Main Office
The main office, ECON 212, is open 8:00 a.m.–Noon and 1–5 p.m. Monday through Friday. In the event that something needs immediate attention when the front office is not available, please email the appropriate staff member for assistance. Email addresses and phone numbers are available under the People Tab.
Department Highlights
- Joongsan Hwang's paper "Seller-buyer Bargaining Explained by Fixed Bargaining Costs, Risk Preferences and Value Discovery," conditionally accepted at Journal of Applied Economic Sciences
- Elizabeth Sorensen Montoya's (PhD '25), paper "Birth outcome effects of nitrate contamination in drinking water," has been accepted by the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management for publication September 2025.
- Harry Johnson prize for the best paper in the Canadian Journal of Economics in 2024 awarded to James Markusen: “Regional Specialization: from the geography of industries to the geography of jobs,” (with Antoine Gervais and Anthony Venables) Canadian Journal of Economics 57(4) (2024), 1236-1264.
- Pan Chen has been awarded a CU Graduate School Summer Fellowship. The fellowship provides a biweekly stipend to allow the student to pursue their research during the summer.
- LinkedIn: Economics 2025 BA Graduate Lucas Gauthier talks about presenting his honors thesis, "Airbnb Density, Housing Prices, and Short-Term Rental Restrictions in Hawaii," at the Carroll Round Economics Conference at Georgetown University
- Joongsan Hwang's Job Market Paper "Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information and Risk Preference: An Analysis of Brinkmanship" submitted to Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy and received a revise and resubmit
- Sara Avila: Two interviews on tariffs (spanish), "The real cost of Donald Trump's tariff war" and "Facing 104% tariffs on China, how can tariffs affect you"
- Bikalpa Baniya has been selected to receive a Flower Family Graduate Student Award for the proposal submitted to the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant program.
- Liaoyuan (Leo) Zhang has been selected to receive a Beverly Sears Award for the proposal submitted to the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant program.
- Exploring selfish incentives for pursuing climate policy: CU Boulder economist Alessandro Peri makes the case that empowering the young can meaningfully affect climate policy and climate outcomes in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
- El Péndulo Podcast: Sara Avila discusses the economic impact of some of the proposals of both Presidential Candidates (Podcast in Spanish)
- Murat Iyigun and his music in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine article, "He will, he will rock you"
- Research at Notre Dame's Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities by Patrick Turner (CU Boulder Econ PhD, 2018) featured in "Fighting to improve education policies"
- CU Boulder Today article, "How efforts to make heavy trucks more efficient could hit a roadblock," features research by Jonathan Hughes
- Jonathan Hughes in KUTV's article, "Colorado latest to shift to electric lawn equipment is 'nudge' to market, economist says"
- Ann Carlos was the inaugural recipient of the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Award. Professor Carlos gave the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture, where the medal was formally presented, on Thursday 11 April 2024
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Publication Showcase
Francisca Antman
"When Beer is Safer than Water: Beer Availability and Mortality from Waterborne Illnesses," (with James M. Flynn). Journal of Development Economics, 171(2024), 103343. October 2024.Jeronimo Carballo
"Import Processing and Trade Costs," Import Processing and Trade Costs," (with Alejandro Graziano, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus) Journal of International Economics, 154, 2025.
"The Effect of Transit Systems on International Trade," (with Alejandro Graziano, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus) Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106.Yongmin Chen
"Search and Competition under Product Quality Uncertainty," Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol 72, Issue 2, p. 633-661, 2024.
"Multimarket Firms and Product Liability: Uniform vs. Variable Rules," (with X. Hua) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, forthcoming.
"Search and Competition in Expert Markets," (with C. Cao, Y. Ding, and T. Zhang) RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming.Murat Iyigun
"Resource Shocks and Conflict, 1400–1900 C," (with Joris Muller and Nancy Qian) American Economic Review, May 2024.Taylor Jaworski
"Economic Geography and Air Pollution Regulation in the United States," (with Alex Hollingsworth, Carl Kitchens, and Ivan Rudik) Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, conditionally accepted.Xiaodong Liu
"Endogenous Technology Spillovers in R&D Collaboration Networks," (with Chih-Sheng Hsieh and Michael Kӧnig) The RAND Journal of Economics, accepted.
"On Testing for Spatial or Social Network Dependence in Panel Data Allowing for Network Variability," (with Ingmar R. Prucha) Journal of Econometrics 247, 105925, 2025.Richard Mansfield
"Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track," (with Zachary Szlendak) Journal of Human Resources, accepted.Adam McCloskey
"Critical Values Robust to P-hacking" (with Pascal Michaillat) Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
"Short and Simple Confidence Intervals when the Directions of Some Effects are Known," (with Philipp Ketz) Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.Sergey Nigai
"Trade and Inequality: A Sufficient-Statistics Approach," (with Dongkyu Yang) Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics 2024 2:3, 508-552
"International Transmission of Inequality through Trade," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming.Alessandro Peri
"Unintended Consequences of Money-Laundering Regulations," (Fabrizio Colella and Keith E. Maskus) Economic Journal, conditionally accepted, 2025.
"Programming FPGAs for Economics: An Introduction to Electrical Engineering Economics," (with Cheela, Bhagath, et al.) Quantitative Economics, vol. 16, .no 1, Econometric Society, 2025, pp. 49-87.
"Public Investment in a Production Network: Aggregate and Sectoral Implications," (with Omar Rachedi and Iacopo Varotto) The Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.Ernesto Rivera Mora
"Mechanism design with belief-dependent preferences," Journal of Economic Theory 216 (2024): 105782.Carol Shiue
"Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900," Journal of Economic History, forthcoming.