We are delighted to announce that four Assistant Professors of Economics will be joining the Department of Economics this fall:

Assistant Professors

Matias D. Cattaneo, Ph.D., Berkeley
Econometrics

Ryan Kellogg, Ph.D., Berkeley
Industrial Organization, Environmental and Energy Economics

Andrei Levchenko, Ph.D., MIT
International Economics

Rebecca Thornton, Ph.D., Harvard
Development Economics

Additionally, one faculty member with a tenured appointment in another unit of the University will be joining the Department as Professor of Economics:

Edward C. Norton, Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
Health Economics

2008-2009 Economics Job Market Candidates

A column by Economics Assistant Professor Andrei Levchenko appears in the November 2008 issue of Forbes Magazine, the Russian edition - link

10-25-08 - (New York Times) "But Have We Learned Enough?" cites U-M Professors Kathryn Dominguez and Matthew Shapiro and their research on the economy of the 1930s. - link

10/3/2008 – “Upheaval in Financial Markets”, video presentation of the Economics Leadership Council panel discussion sponsored by the Department of Economics to discuss the current economic crisis. Video

10/3/2008 - David W. Berson, MPP ’79; PhD ’82 econ, discusses housing crisis and financial bailout with Frank Beckmann on WJR (Detroit) prior to the Economics Department-sponsored forum “Upheaval in Financial Markets”. Listen

7/17/2008 – “Here’s how to Predict Future Oil Prices” U-M Economics Professor Lutz Kilian and PhD student Ron Alquist are featured in Justin Wolfers’s Marketplace on-air commentary .

6/26/08 - Professor Jim Hines testifies before Congress on International Tax Reform

Graduate Student Mindy Miller's Job Market Paper highlighted in the Atlantic Monthly

3/17/2008 - Tough economic sledding will get smoother by year's end (U-Michigan News)

2/7/2008 - Graduate Student Benjamin Keys paper in the February issue of the Economist - link

Frank Stafford and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (run through ISR) were highlighted in the recent UM Research News

"The Politics of Health Care Reform" -
Dr. Gail Wilensky, AB‘64psych, AB ‘65econ, PhD ’68 econ
Podcast of this presentation is here

Past and current copies of MichEcon News are now online.

Schedule an advising appointment online