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Welcome to the Department of Economics at Tufts University!
Please explore our website and learn more about our department's
people, programs (undergraduate and graduate), and activities.
Enrico Spolaore
Chair, Department of Economics
Announcement:
- View photos of our
celebration of Linda Loury's life (held on 11/05/11)
- In Memoriam of Professor Loury
New Faculty:
We are delighted that four new faculty members are joining our department:
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 Ujjayant Chakravorty
is joining us from the University of Alberta, where he has been a Professor and
Canada Research Chair. Ujjayant is a world-recognized expert in the fields of
resource economics and environmental economics, His research has focused on the
economics of energy, the effect of environmental regulation on energy prices,
the economics of clean energy alternatives, and the allocation and pricing of
water resources. His work has been published in journals such as the American
Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica,
the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and many others.
Ujjayant is joining the Economics Department and the Environmental Studies
Program at Tufts as a Professor of Economics in July 2012.
 Adam
Storeygard's primary fields of research
are development and growth, and urban economics; his interests also include
environmental economics, demography, and trade. Adam has co-authored an article
on "Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space," forthcoming in the American
Economic Review, as well as articles in Nature and other journals.
His recent work has focused on the relation between transport costs, trade, and
urban growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Adam is completing his Ph.D. in Economics at
Brown, and is joining Tufts as an Assistant Professor of Economics in September
2012.
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 Sahar
Parsa's main fields
of research are finance and macroeconomics. In particular, Sahar has explored
how short-term trading impacts the aggregation of information in financial
markets, and the relationship among institutional investors' "short-termism",
trading frequency, and stock price volatility. At Tufts, she is going to teach
classes in finance and empirical macroeconomics, including a new course on the
economics of corporate finance. Sahar completed her Ph.D. in Economics at MIT in
2011 and is visiting the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia this academic year
2011-2012. She is joining Tufts as an Assistant Professor of Economics in
September 2012.
 Muthoni
Ngatia's research interests are in development
economics and applied microeconomics. Her work includes the design and analysis
of a randomized field experiment in Malawi, showing that the stigma of being
identified with HIV matters for individuals’ decision to get tested and that
such stigma has negative externalities in social networks. In other research,
Muthoni and co-authors have evaluated the impact of educational interventions
reducing out-of-pocket expenditures in poor communities in Kenya. Muthoni is
going to join Tufts as an Assistant Professor of Economics in September 2013,
after spending the academic year 2012-2013 as a post-doc researcher with MIT’s
Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
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Department Highlights:
Tom Downes wins The Association for Education
Finance and Policy (AEFP) 2012 Service Award. On March 16, 2012 received his AEFP
Service Award at the 37th annual AEFP Conference held this year in Boston. The
Service Award recognizes contributions made to public policy development, research,
public understanding, local school finance development and service to the AEFP.
Congratulations Tom!
In the Media:
- Yannis Ioannides
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Yannis Ioannides was interviewed by Bloomberg News on the recent events
regarding the
bank crises in Greece. Yannis was also interviewed by Bloomberg News
regarding
the upcoming "re-elections". Click
here for audio of interview regarding the Greek political parties and
here for
another audio of interview regarding Greece’s current state of the economy and
political status.
- Yannis Ioannides is interviewed on Bloomberg on the Economy
regarding the forthcoming political changes in Greece. Click
here for the audio.
- On September 28, 2011, Prof. Ioannides gave a widely attended lecture as a guest of the
Hellenic Alumni Association of Tufts University in
Athens, Greece, on "In the Greek Crisis,
the Debt is the Lesser Problem."
- Prof. Yannis Ioannides was recently
interviewed on Bloomberg Television's "Taking
Stock with Pimm Fox" and "Bottom
Line with Mark Crumpton" on the Greek crisis and economy.
He was interviewed by Greek Economics Magazine Epilogi in the article
"Letter
from America".
- An article by Yannis Ioannides, in collaboration with
Christopher A. Pissarides of the LSE, this year's Nobel Co-Laureate in economic
science (with MIT's Peter Diamond and Northwestern's Dale Mortensen)
and with Costas Azariadis of Washington University, appeared in
Kathimerini, Greece's most respected newspaper. A
discussion based on this article titled "Greece Needs Growth
Policies Alongside Cuts" was published by
Bloomberg.com.
Professor Ioannides is working with others as an editor of
GreekeconomistsforReform.com, where a longer piece by these three scholars on
Development is the only solution: Seventeen proposals for a new
development strategy may be found.
- Winifred Rothenberg
- Gilbert Metcalf
- The U.S. Department of Treasury asks Gilbert Metcalf "five questions"
as part of their "5 Questions Series". Click
here
to see how he responded.
- Gilbert Metcalf was recently interviewed
on the radio show "NPR's Marketplace"
regarding BP's most recent earnings report.
- Prof. Metcalf was also interviewed by the
New York Times
on renewable energy policies and interviewed by American Public
Media on the Market Place Morning Report for the article "Producers
ignore low natural gas prices", and by CNN American Morning on
"Climate Change and Your Wallet."
- Enrico Spolaore
- Enrico Spolaore was
interviewed by "Adéu, Espanya?" on Catalan TV3 (Televisió de Catalunya) regarding
his research on The Size of Nations. Please click
here to view clip.
Philip Green Wright, Double Jumbo and Inventor of IV Regression:
 On October 3, 2011,
the Department of Economics organized a special Wellington-Burnham event honoring our
distinguished alum Philip Green Wright on the 150th anniversary of his birth. Philip Green
Wright was a creative and path-breaking scholar, and the author of the first published use
of Instrumental Variables regression, a central method in econometrics.
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