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Welcome to the Department of Economics at Tufts University! Enrico Spolaore
On November 7 and 8 the Economics Department at Tufts will host the 2009 Northeast
Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, a major
forum in development economics rotating among the organizing
institutions (BU, Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Tufts, Williams, and
Yale). New Faculty:
We are delighted to welcome three new faculty members in 2009-2010:
Randall Akee, Emilia Simeonova, and Heiwai Tang, who are joining our
department as Assistant Professors of Economics. Department Highlights:
Yannis Ioannides was a recipient of this year's Tufts Distinguished Scholar Award, which is given for distinguished excellence in research and scholarship. Yannis Ioannides is the Max and Herta Neubauer Professor in Economics at Tufts, and a leading scholar in the fields of social economics, economic growth and inequality, social interactions and networks, and the economics of housing markets. Click here to learn more about Yannis' research. In The Media: Thomas Downes' and Jeffrey Zabel’s research report on education reform titled "Incomplete Grade: Massachusetts Education Reform at 15" has recently been cited in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, the Patriot Ledger, Metro West Daily News, as well as several other news outlets. Gilbert Metcalf interviewed by Technology Review. Read the article. Emily Morgan '10 and Anna Hardman's Summer Scholars Project on the effects of subprime mortgages featured in the Tufts Journal. Marcelo Bianconi cited in Tufts Observer article, Tufts Speaks Out on the Financial Meltdown. Margaret McMillan cited in Tufts Observer article, Exporting the Dream: The Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Adventure. Gilbert Metcalf's research on energy taxes was cited in the New York Times. Read the article. Maggie McMillan featured in Tufts Profile about the global food crisis. Read the article. Ed Kutsoati interviewed by Peace Reporter (Italian version) about Africa's current economic situation. Read the article (in Italian). Gilbert Metcalf quoted in CNBC article "Climate Consensus Obscures Obama, McCain Differences". Read the article. |
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