Economics

May 2026 Economics Graduates

Spring Ceremony 26 Mohamed Osman Mohamed

Upcoming

Summer Classes

Summer classes began May 4 with Maymester, Sessions A, C & D begin May 26, Session B on June 30, Augmester on July 27. 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.

101st Annual WEAI Conference

The department, along with the Econ Club and WIE club, is sponsoring 10 undergraduate students to attend the 101st Annual WEAI Conference, Monday, June 29, 2026 to Friday, July 3, 2026 at the Denver Sheraton Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court Place Denver, CO. The Western Economic Association International (WEAI) is hosting its 101st Annual Conference in Denver this year. This is a well-established professional economics conference that brings together faculty, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates from across the country. Conferences like this are a great way to see how economics is used in real research and policy conversations. You can attend paper sessions, hear invited speakers, and get a feel for different subfields—from macro and public finance to labor, health, and environmental economics. If you’re considering graduate school, research, policy work, or just want exposure to the profession beyond the classroom, this can be valuable. We will cover registration, but not for lodging or local transportation (RTD preferred), so those costs would need to be covered individually. Students who are interested and able to attend should let us know here.

2026–27 Seminar Series

For future seminars check out the 2026-27 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 1–4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday except when noted for holiday closures. 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, "Bargaining on Behalf of Others and How to Fix It for Political Gridlocks and Labor Strikes," received a revise and resubmit from Dynamic Games and Applications
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

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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
"Product Safety in the Age of AI: Autonomy, R&D, and Liability" (with X. Hua), The Economic Journal, 2026, forthcoming.
"Search and Competition in Expert Markets," (with C. Cao, Y. Ding, and T. Zhang) RAND Journal of Economics, 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, Volume 141, Issue 1, pages 263–314, February 2026.
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
"Collaboration in Bipartite Networks," (with Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael Kӧnig, and Christian Zimmermann) conditionally accepted, AEJ: Microeconomics, 2025.
"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 253, 106124, 2026.
"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
"Contrasting the Local and National Demographic Incidence of Local Labour Demand Shocks," The Economic Journal, forthcoming.
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.

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