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The Griffin Gift: "Our goal is to be the best department in the world"

How UChicago is using Kenneth C. Griffin's enormous gift as "an opportunity...to change the world"
Griffin Faculty Receive Named; Distinguished Professorships

Fernando Alvarez, Michael Greenstone, and Derek Neal honored
List and Levitt Named Top Behavioral Economists

TheBestSchools.org recently named the world’s Top 25 Behavioral Economists, including among them two members of our department: Steve Levitt and John A. List.
Torgovitsky Awarded NSF CAREER Grant

The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Alexander Torgovitsky has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER grant, the organization's most prestigious junior faculty award
Nobel Laureates Bring UChicago-Style Debate to New Economic Policy Series

Lars Peter Hansen, James Heckman welcome scholars for ‘deeper understanding’ of issues
Greenstone Receives Carnegie Fellowship

Prof. Michael Greenstone has been selected for the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, which provides scholars and writers in the social sciences and humanities with funding to support research that examines today’s most pressing issues. Read full story »
UChicago and UCEMA Create Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics

The main objective of the Initiative is to design field experiments to offer new perspectives in economic research for Latin American countries.

The Griffin Gift: "Our goal is to be the best department in the world"

How UChicago is using Kenneth C. Griffin's enormous gift as "an opportunity...to change the world"
Griffin Faculty Receive Named; Distinguished Professorships

Fernando Alvarez, Michael Greenstone, and Derek Neal honored
List and Levitt Named Top Behavioral Economists

TheBestSchools.org recently named the world’s Top 25 Behavioral Economists, including among them two members of our department: Steve Levitt and John A. List.
Torgovitsky Awarded NSF CAREER Grant

The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Alexander Torgovitsky has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER grant, the organization's most prestigious junior faculty award
Nobel Laureates Bring UChicago-Style Debate to New Economic Policy Series

Lars Peter Hansen, James Heckman welcome scholars for ‘deeper understanding’ of issues
Greenstone Receives Carnegie Fellowship

Prof. Michael Greenstone has been selected for the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, which provides scholars and writers in the social sciences and humanities with funding to support research that examines today’s most pressing issues. Read full story »
UChicago and UCEMA Create Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics

The main objective of the Initiative is to design field experiments to offer new perspectives in economic research for Latin American countries.

Economics Spotlight

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The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics congratulates our 2019 Economics PhD Graduates! Klakow Akepanidtaworn • Triwit Ariathugun • Michael Barrett • Meru Bhanot • Gregory Buchak • Nicolas Castro Cienfuegos • Jose Cuesta Rodriguez • Chiara Fratto • Lloyd Han • Lancelot Henry de Frahan • Alejandro Hoyos Suarez • Adam Jorring • Paymon Khorrami • Jun Hyung Kim • Michael Kirker • Jan Kozak • Jonathan Loudis • David Malison • Mohsen Mirtaher • Noemi Nocera • Krisztina Orban • Yinan Su • Muhammed Alp Tuncay • Winnie van Dijk • Willem van Vliet • Yike Wang • Yiyao Wang • Patrick Ward • Karen Ye

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