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We are absolutely thrilled that two of our talented young junior colleagues, Afshin Nikzad and Vittorio Bassi, have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective immediately!
Congratulations both - so well deserved!
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We are thrilled to be welcoming to our department in 2025-26 Mengsi Gao of UC-Berkeley as Assistant Professor of Economics! She will be joining and adding strength to our already very strong econometrics research group. Welcome, Mengsi!
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We are welcoming Ph.D. economics applications!
The deadline is December 1, 2021, at 8:59 PM (PST).
Be part of a thriving economics department in the heart of Los Angeles.
Link: dornsife.usc.edu/econ/doctor…
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We are very proud of our PhD student Francesco Gabriele, who was on the job market this year and will be joining HKUST as an Assistant Professor starting in 2025-26! Congratulations, Francesco! sites.google.com/usc.edu/fra…
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We are so excited that Milena Djourelova will be joining our faculty and Applied Micro group in 2025-26!
Milena is one of four new Assistant Professors arriving in August - our department is buzzing! 😍
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🚨 Deadline for PhD applications is on Dec 1st (Friday). We have expanded the number of fully-funded PhD slots 💸💸💸
Our application process also requires no nonsense ranking questions for your letter writers, so it's very easy to apply.
Come join our exciting & growing dept!
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Great week for USC Econ. Two of our juniors were admitted into the @nberpubs as Faculty Research Fellows. Congratulations @ABergeron_econ (Dev, PE) and @bassi_vittorio (Dev).
Check our their profiles to see their exciting research projects and agendas.
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Professor Bassi @bassi_vittorio talking about his new @ecmaEditors paper on achieving scale collectively in Uganda, with @PorzioTommaso
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@KurlatPablo, a fantastic Macroeconomist, is joining @USC_Econ from @Stanford Economics as Associate Professor with Tenure. Congratulations and Welcome Pablo! @nberrel @USC @USCDornsife @MITEcon @UTDiTella @CREIResearch @rgr208 @mattkahn1966
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Congratulations to @JlibDoesEcon on his selection as a junior Albert S. Raubenheimer Awardee by @USCDornsife! #outstanding #promise #teaching #research #service
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Our fantastic job market candidates this year.
Check out these awesome and diverse set of job market papers.
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We're thrilled to welcome in 2025-26 @PeiranXiao who joins our research group in Economic Theory for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship! Welcome, Peiran!
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Congratulations to @KurlatPablo!
Another @USC_Econ faculty member nominated onto the board of a top economics journal.
@USCDornsife
Congratulations to newly appointed AER Board Members (starting in July ‘24): Briana Chang, Francesc Dilmé, @paulinegrosjean, @KurlatPablo, @conradcmiller, @johannarickne, @Florian_Scheuer, and @Manisha_econ. @AEAjournals
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We are excited for our 5th year PhD student, Margarita Khvan, who is heading to the Department of Health Policy at Stanford University's School of Medicine for a two year post-doc!
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A group of smiling new @USC_Econ Ph.D. students - *before* they take core theory classes for the first time 😀
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*Saturday March 8* USC and UCLA are hosting on USC campus the 2025 Pacific Conference for Economic Development!
PacDev 2025 is one of the leading Development Economics events in the US and the largest Development conference on the West Coast.
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We're very proud of BS Econ-Math senior, Gabriel Solis, who has accepted a pre-doctoral fellowship offer in MIT's Blueprint Labs!
Gabriel will be working under Josh Angrist, David Autor, and Amanda Pallais in their Higher Education group.
Congratulations Gabriel!
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Next up: @DarioL_Econ
Why did the financial sector grow so massively after the 1980s? In his JMP, @DarioL_Econ links it to the decline of the labor share and higher inequality. Higher K share generated more inequality, and a portfolio allocation problem for investors.
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Among the list of newly elected 2024 Fellows of the Econometric Society are Professor of Economics @Thomas_Chaney @USC_Econ and @USC_Econ Associated Faculty Member Ayse Imrohoroglu, Professor of Finance and Business Economics and Economics! Congrats both! econometricsociety.org/socie…
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It's Prospective Ph.D. Student Open House Week!
Yesterday's "Very LA" hike with current Ph.D. students for prospective Ph.D. students 😍
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Adieu Emmanuel Farhi (1978-2020): brillant genius, generous man, and charming comrade. A co-author, a friend, and someone I deeply admired. Over a phone call back in 2010, he encouraged me to join USC (which happened later). RR
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We are excited to welcome Michael Droste from Harvard to the Trojan family ✌️ @USCDornsife
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Next up: Amanda Ang (@aang_econ) -> interests in env. and urban econ.
Her JMP explores externalities of HH location choice in terms of 🔥 risk, investigates possible policy solutions
Link here: drive.google.com/file/d/13J9…
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Our department is now 12th place in the new RePEc US rankings.
Still improving all the time.
@USC @USCDornsife @PresidentFolt
.@USC_Econ moves up to #12 among US economics departments based on research productivity. Not bad!
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We are super proud of our PhD student Zhan! We wish him much success in his research and teaching career at SMU!
🚨NEW HIRE👨🏫
Another hiring season concluded with great news:
Zhan Gao @ZhanGao67447167 from @USC_Econ will join SMU in the fall as an assistant professor.
He is a superb econometrician with a wide research agenda. Check it out: zhan-gao.github.io/
Welcome Zhan! 🤠
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We have been lucky to have Jeff Nugent contributing to science and @USC's quality of life for 60 years!
His impact has been immense!
@USCDornsife
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Our very own @mattkahn1966 has been awarded Communicator of the Year at @USCDornsife
Matt regularly engages on economic thinking with the media and those on Twitter!
2. Matt Khan, @mattkahn1966 has been awarded Communicator of the Year, Social Sciences. He shared his 📊economics expertise with the public through media interviews, news articles, and an active, engaging presence on social media.
ow.ly/RWU250NYYAM
@USC_Econ
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We are absolutely delighted that our colleague Nicolas Lambert has been promoted to Full Professor, effective immediately 😀
dornsife.usc.edu/profile/nic…
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The evolution of USC's Economics Department research productivity ranking (REPEC data) among all Economics Departments worldwide 2014-2024 (which is the maximum range of the app that creates the image).
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Pleased to announce our JMCs and their research. First up:
Yi-Ju Hung’s (@YiJuHung1) job market paper studies how exposure to immigrants during childhood affects the economic performance of children of US-born later in life.
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Bravo! We're so proud that the job market paper of 2024 PhD alumn, Dario Laudati , "Inequality and the Rise of Finance", has been awarded a special commendation by the jury of the 2025 Research Prize in Historical Finance Honoring the Memory of Professor Georges Gallais-Hamonno!
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Our new crop of exciting PhD students start their research careers with us.
Beyond thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @USC_Econ for an Economics PhD this fall! I am incredibly excited to start this new chapter and spend the next few years in LA.
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Two successful Trojan Economics Alumnae, doing great work in their respective academic fields! Congratulations to Cynthia on gaining tenure at Florida State last year! @eunjeeecon @mattkahn1966 @HPesaran
Small @USC_Econ gathering in Tallahassee, Florida! Great to catch up with Cynthia Yang (@FloridaState), who was promoted to associate professor last year 🥳!
She’s an econometrician, and now we share common research interests in urban and spatial economics.
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.@USCDornsife Economics is ranked #16 in the United States based on our top 10 researchers work over the last 10 years. We are building a powerhouse off of the football field!
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Terrific overview of the important work being done by our very own @ABergeron_econ on using field experiments in the Congo to understand how to build state capacity.
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Our @ABergeron_econ and co-authors won the prestigious @IIPF_org Musgrave prize for the best paper in the public finance Congress this year.
Congratulations!! 🎉
Thrilled that our paper won the @IIPF_org Peggy and Richard Musgrave prize. Thank you to @wwwojtekk, @LucieGadenne, @RDMetcalfe, @KatarzynaBilic1, and Scott Findley for a great conference. See you all next year in Prague!
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Excited to host this year's Southern California Graduate Conference in Applied Economics.
Deadline for the submission of papers: October 6th.
#SOCAE2023 is coming to @USC_Econ this year on November 3rd!
We are accepting papers now, check our website: sites.google.com/view/socae for more information on submission and RSVP.
Looking forward to see your brilliant works! @UCSDEcon @UCLA @EconomicsUcsb @ucisocsci
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Yesterday, three of our most prolific Ph.D. alumni research scholars joined our current Ph.D. students for a stimulating and informative panel discussion about Econ PhD careers in academia! Kaiji Chen, Martin Weidner, and Tim Derdenger - you were all so helpful!
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Very excited that our very own Tim Armstrong has joined the Econometrica editorial board.
We are excited to announce that that following new associate editors with expertise in econometrics joined the editorial board of Econometrica on July 1st 2023: Timothy B. Armstrong and Mikkel Plagborg-Møller
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The department is so happy to see our excellent PhD students graduate!
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Very excited to announce our new Master of Science in Innovation Economics, Law and Regulation, joint with @USCGouldLaw
It will address artificial intelligence innovation and machine learning through the lens of antitrust, privacy, data security and IP laws.
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A great story about @USCDornsife economics. We have a plan to create the best west coast econ major.
dailytrojan.com/2017/09/14/e…
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Next up: Wei Zhou
How does reputation affect us? In Wei's JMP, he finds that it impacts us in two distinct ways: a good reputation provides us with a wider range of choices and increases our visibility.
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1AJR…
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Yesterday our PhD students and faculty (plus a small dog) joined together for an end of semester and academic year lunch - sharing good food, better company, and some great research ideas!
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As the fall 2018 semester starts at @usc. USC Economics welcomes 13 new PHD students and 65+ new masters students. The demand for our graduate degrees continues to rise. We are working hard to upgrade the quality of our graduate programs.
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Congrats to our former colleague, James Robinson, on his award with Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences!
James was an Assistant Professor at USC Economics from 1995 to 1999.
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We are very excited that Nicolas Lambert and @ABergeron_econ have joined us this year.
New social sciences faculty bring expertise in depression, African refugees, geospatial technologies.
Welcome our new colleagues from @USC_Econ, Anthropology, Psychology, @uscpoir, @USCLinguistics @USC_SSI, and @USCSociology.
#WelcomeToUSC
✌️: ow.ly/hpeY50L6fc6
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We had fantastic Korean food for lunch to celebrate the arrival of our new Ph.D. students - there is fantastic Korean food in Los Angeles! Join us! 😀
At @USC_Econ , @USCDornsife , we welcomed the new PhD students yesterday. I introduced myself as a 36th year student and told the students to seek balance in their time allocation between work and play. Los Angeles is so great.
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Ever wondered why Mauritius has grown 6 times faster than Senegal between 1980 & 2019, despite historical similarities?
In her JMP, Fatou examines the dynamics of growth of the two countries and their resource reallocation, and the factors driving them. #EconomicGrowth #Africa
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Fantastic research by @mattkahn1966 and @amine_ouazad getting huge and well-deserved exposure. The shifting of climate-risk on Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac has potential systemic consequences.
Mortgage Lenders Are Shifting Climate Risks Onto Taxpayers, Study Finds nyti.ms/2nMIPYq
@amine_ouazad and my new working paper is discussed in today's @nytimes. This paper will be released by the NBER on Monday. I thank Amine for working with me.
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One of our talented Ph.D. students!
With the support of the Wrigley Institute Graduate Fellowship, Juliana Pinillos traveled to Colombia this summer to examine how a neighborhood upgrading program have shaped the landscape and the lives of the people who live there. dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/202…
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We are delighted to announce that Giorgio Coricelli has been promoted to the rank of full professor at @USCDornsife Economics.
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*Students and teachers of urban and environmental economics*
See complete sets of undergraduate lecture notes and two free textbooks by Professor Matthew Kahn here ->
I have created a Free Directory of all of my teaching materials for Undergraduate and Masters Level Urban Economics and Environmental Economics. You will find 2 free textbooks, lecture slides, and exams. Please consider using them!!
drive.google.com/drive/folde…
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A great profile of @usc Economics Vice-Chair Prof. Romain Ranciere
voyagela.com/interview/meet-…
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Another successful USC Econ undergrad going off to @StanfordEcon to change the world!
Congratulations to Robert Huang who will enroll at @StanfordEcon this fall as a PHD student. Here is a photo of us at @Stanford. @USC_Econ is a top 10 department in educating undergraduates.
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As the largest major at @USCDornsife , USC Economics is thrilled to hire three star junior faculty; Monica Morlacco (Yale), Jonathan Libgober (Harvard) and Afshin Nikzad (Stanford).
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Our new cohort of PHD students are ready to learn economics. Now that the eclipse is over, we can start to think about supply and demand!!
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We are very proud to have these fantastic female economists as part of the Trojan community! @USCDornsife @PresidentFolt
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Super talented Ph.D. student Paul Delatte has been awarded our Outstanding Third Year Paper Award for 2024, for his paper "Average Density: Weak Limits and Inference in Non-regular Semi-parametric Problems" dornsife.usc.edu/econ/2024/1…
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We are very excited to have @ABergeron_econ join our thriving economics community at @USCDornsife.
Really excited to have @ABergeron_econ join our outstanding group of juniors at @USC_Econ.
Augustin is conducting ground-breaking research on the mechanisms behind increasing state capacity.
Definitely worth following his research journey.
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Our talented undergraduate student, Minnie Zhang, has had her paper selected as a finalist for the 2nd Annual Undergraduate Student Research Program of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI)! She will present her paper at the WEAI Annual Meeting this summer!
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Exciting days at @usc Economics.
.@USC_Econ is proud to announce that Monica Morlacco will join our faculty. Each day we grow stronger! monicamorlacco.com/
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USC Economics is ranked #16 among US Economics Departments based on our top 10 ranked scholars' productivity over the last 10 years.
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@usc football is ranked #15
espn.com/college-football/ra… #convergence
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Congratulations Kamiar and Prof. Jeff Nugent.
Super excited to have finally got the cover of our @OxUniPress edited volume #Institutions and #Macroeconomic Policies in #Resource-Rich #Arab Economies (with Jeff Nugent @USC_Econ & Hoda Selim @IMFNews).
It will be published on May 16th 2019 in the UK & June 16th in the US.
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Our PhD students taking a well deserved break in our perfect surroundings.
One of the benefits of studying at @USC_Econ is being able to take a wholesome break even during winter. Perfect combination of fresh air and psets.
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Next up: Jingyi Fan (@JingyiFang5)
Her JMP studies how a migration relaxation policy can have distributive impacts across firms and lead to a decline in labor misallocation.
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Our inaugural Econ Ph.D. Career Panel (Data Science) last night was super, attracting 30 current students! Thanks to alumni panelists Laura Angelescu (PhD 2010), Andreas Aristidou (PhD 2020), Manuel Castro (PhD 2011), and Weiran Deng (PhD 2020)+moderator Maggie Switek (PhD 2014).
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Happy New Year to all of our students, faculty, alumni, supporters, and followers.
We are excited to see the continued growth of our department this year and connect with even more of the economics community at USC.
@USCDornsife @PresidentFolt
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Fantastic!
Super excited that our @OxUniPress volume "#Institutions & #Macroeconomic Policies in #Resource-Rich #Arab Economies", with Jeff Nugent @USC_Econ & Hoda Selim @IMFNews, is available from today in the UK.
More details here: global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Lovely photo! May you rest in peace, Dick - we will miss you.
Today is a sad day as I have learned of the passing of my friend and @usc_econ colleague University Professor Richard Easterlin. Here is a happy photo of us back in 2018. Dick would have turned 99 in January. He was a highly productive and optimistic economist. A thread.
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Today was our Celebration of Undergraduate Research In Economics (CURIE)! Many thanks to the faculty advisors of directed undergraduate research and organizers of this event and program!
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USC Economics is partnering with @USC_SSI to offer a new MS STEM certified Masters in Spatial Economics and Data Sciences @USCDornsife
dornsife.usc.edu/econ/ms-in-…
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At @usc, Economics is the biggest major in Dornsife. Our students are well trained and are ready to thrive in this "Big Data" economy.
dailytrojan.com/2017/09/14/e… Next week we welcome back our 1000+ majors, 80+ Masters and 70+ PHD students. The demand for economics is soaring!
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Next up: Jack Chapel
Many Medicaid eligible adults are not enrolled, in part due to information frictions.
Jack’s JMP -> social networks help facilitate program take-up – increasing program enrollment & salience among one’s friend network increases own probability of take-up.
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We are all climate economists now!
Our very own Paulina Oliva in today's @nytimes with @lydiadepillis on the proliferation of economists studying climate change and the policy responses.
nytimes.com/2024/01/23/busin…
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Prof. Kelsey Jack of @brenucsb presented a great environmental economics and development paper at USC Econ yesterday. Her paper is co-authored with Sarojini Rao and @seema_econ
nber.org/papers/w24192
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USC Economics is delighted to announce that Professor Romain Ranciere will be the new Chair of the Department and Professor Paulina Oliva will be the Vice-Chair.
End of semester @USC_Econ. We express our sincere Thank you to our departing chair @mattkahn1966 and Welcome our incoming Chair @rgr208 and Vice-chair Paulina Oliva! Prof. Magil suggested ‘Hurrah’ for Prof Kahn, for his extraordinary success and enthusiasm as a chairperson!!
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.@USC_Econ would like to build up some partnerships with Universities in the Middle East. In Spring 2019, the department's Vice-Chair (Romain Ranciere) will visit the region.
Many thanks! It was inspired by the items in the Arab Fund for Economic & Social Development. Here is a virtual tour of the building showing some of the amazing items they have: aohq.arabfund.org/
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.@USC_Econ and @INETeconomics welcomes Nandita Krishnaswamy econ.columbia.edu/nandita-kr… as a USC INET Post-Doc. We are building up a great young group in development economics.
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Thanks to our USC Economics Association for putting on a super event last night - Careers in Wealth Management - led by alumnus William Holliday, MBA, CFP, CEPA, AIF who gave a fantastic presentation for our students.
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This was a terrific talk by Sir Angus Deaton. Grateful to @SchaefferCenter for involving us! We all learned a lot.
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Next up: Hayun Song
JMP: a Bayesian approach for estimating large conditional precision matrices within the DCC framework instead of taking the inversion of conditional covariance matrices.
He considers the estimators in the high-dimensional multivariate volatility applications
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Prominent economists visits @USCDornsife Economics every week. Today, we welcomed Prof. Enrico Moretti of @UCBerkeley . He gave a great undergraduate lecture and a 2nd research presentation on his urban/labor research agenda.
eml.berkeley.edu/~moretti/
We welcome @UCBerkeley economist Enrico Moretti to @USC_Econ to give an undergraduate talk and a research seminar
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Next: Weizhao Huang
His JMP studies China's "green finance policy" and its influence on firm behavior in green finance pilot zones. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1-GQ…
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Our 2-day PhD Alumni Research Conference wrapped on Saturday and was fun and successful! It was fantastic to see our former students reconnecting with each other, our current students, and our faculty...
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USC #economics is delighted to welcome Prof. Deaton to @usc.
Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton, known for his research into poverty, inequality, health & well-being, joins faculty ow.ly/awmL309RC7c
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Econometric analysis of large data sets is a key skill that we teach our @USC_Econ majors. We encourage students to take Econ 318 (and computer programming classes) as sophomores so that they are well prepared for upper division elective courses.
Data Could Decide the Harvard Admissions Trial. Here’s How and Why | News | The Harvard Crimson thecrimson.com/article/2018/… Applied Econometrics is a powerful tool. This article explains what economists do and why such work "matters".
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USC Dornsife Economics Class of 2020 Message piped.video/dt4OpQs3jUo via @YouTube
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@USC_Econ is admitting a diverse incoming class of 14 PhD students in the fall of 2019 coming from all over the world (Italy, Colombia, Japan, US..) and from top universities (Bocconi, NYU, UCSD, UCLA, Tokyo...). Congratulations!
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Welcome to USC Econ! We are so happy to have you here as a Trojan! #USC @USCDornsife
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How will climate change impact business operations? Companies are eager to know. "In economics, information has value if you would make a different decision based on that information," @mattkahn1966 of @USC_Econ explains in @nytimes. ow.ly/PMx330iA4Th
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West LA USC Economics Alumni Network activated!
Pics from last night's Happy Hour at Father's Office in Culver City - looks yummy!
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