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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
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.
Read more >
New Faculty:
 Arthur Chiang's
research interests are in macroeconomics, microeconomic theory,
and growth and development. In particular, he has studied the
aggregate income effects of high unemployment in a framework
with multiple equilibria. Arthur holds a Ph.D. in Economic Analysis and Policy
from Stanford Graduate
School of Business.
 Kelsey
Jack's fields are environmental economics, development
economics, and behavioral economics. Her current research
projects explore the design of new markets in Malawi, agricultural
decisions in Bolivia, and distribution networks for public health
products in Zambia. Kelsey completed her Ph.D. at Harvard last
year, and is currently a post-doctoral scholar at the Agricultural
Technology Adoption Initiative at MIT. |
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 Sahar
Parsa's primary fields of research are finance and
macroeconomics. In particular, she 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. Sahar holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.
She will join Tufts in September 2012.
 Rodrigo
Wagner's research interests are in international economics,
political economy, and the economics of entrepreneurship. His
recent work includes the study of new exports and innovations
in Chile, entrepreneurial activity in Burundi, and political
culture in Venezuela. Rodrigo holds a Ph.D. in Political
Economy from Harvard.
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 Department Highlights:
Gilbert
E. Metcalf
has been tapped as the next Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Environment and Energy in the Department of the Treasury
beginning in June. Prof. Metcalf will lead the office responsible
for developing, coordinating, and executing the Treasury
Department's role in the domestic and international environment and
energy agenda of the United States. Current priorities include
implementing the G-20 commitment to phase-out fossil energy
subsidies, negotiating financial elements related to the Cancun
agreement, managing multilateral foreign assistance related to the
environment, and supporting the administration's domestic clean
energy initiatives. Metcalf will be on leave from Tufts while
serving in government.
For more information regarding Gilbert Metcalf's appointment as
Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Environment and Energy please
download Greenwire's article "TREASURY:
Tufts economics professor picked to lead energy office."
In the Media:
- Winifred Rothenberg's From Market-Places to a Market Economy published
20 years ago has recently been featured in this "Imagining History"
blog
- 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.
- 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 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.
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