Economics
Upcoming
2025–26 Seminar Series
Friday, April 10, 2026: Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University, "Human Capital Accumulation Across Space"
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.
Spring Classes
The last day for Spring classes is Friday, April 24. The university commencement ceremony and the Economics ceremony will both be held on Saturday, May 2. 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.
Economics Spring 2026 Commencement Ceremony
Saturday, May 2, 2026 • Doors Open at 4 p.m. • Ceremony at 4:30 p.m. • Rec Center (REC) • Upper Gymnasium
A reception will follow the ceremony. The commencement address will be given by David Hummels, Distinguished Professor of Economics, PurDue University and Economics and Political Science 1990, CU Boulder.
101st Annual WEAI Conference
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Department Highlights
- Yunxiao Wang's paper, "Health Insurance Portability and Coverage: Evidence from China’s Cross-Regional Instant Reimbursement Reform," has recently been accepted at the Journal of Health Economics.
- CARTSS Steering Committee has granted graduate student Bikalpa Baniya a $1200.00 seed grant award in support of his research.
- Jonathan Hughes'scampground reservation research in "Welcome to the Camping Games (now please show up)," Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
- Chloe East's research featured in "How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Chills Organizing and Erodes Conditions for All Workers," The Nation. as well as in "How Trump's mass deportation efforts have affected families this year" on NPR
- Chloe East cited in "The $7,500 Self-Deportation" and "The Truth About Immigration That MAGA Doesn’t Acknowledge" in The Atlantic
- 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
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Publication Showcase
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.Yongmin Chen
"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, forthcomingJonathan Hughes
"Managing No-Shows in Public Resource Allocation: The Economics of Campground Reservations,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.Murat Iyigun
"Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis," (with Ali Almelhem, Austin Kennedy and Jared Rubin) Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.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, 2026.Xiaodong Liu
"Endogenous Technology Spillovers in R&D Collaboration Networks," (with Chih-Sheng Hsieh and Michael Kӧnig) The RAND Journal of Economics, 2025.
"Testing for Peer Effects without Specifying the Network Structure," (with Hyunseok Jung) Journal of Econometrics, accepted.
"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
"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.Carol Shiue
"Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900," Journal of Economic History, June 2025, 85(2), pp. 370-410.