The Tufts University Economics Department sponsors research seminars, lectures, and events throughout the year.

Special Event Seminars 2011-2012

Upcoming events

Thinking About a Major in Economics?

Faculty from the Economics Department will be available with information and departmental literature on the majors and minors available, on finding an advisor, on studying abroad, and on declaring a major. Refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
12:00-1:00 pm
Braker Hall, Rm. 113

Recent events

Special Seminar on the European Crisis

"The Greek and Euro Area Crisis: What Next?"
Professor Gikas Hardouvelis, Department of Banking & Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece, and
Chief Economist and Head of Economic Research of the Eurobank EFG Group

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
12:00-1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall, Rm. 001

Our 2nd 2011 Wellington Burnham Lecture

The 2011 Wellington Burnham Lecture brings you "Philip Green Wright, Double Jumbo and Inventor of IV Regression." Presenters will be James Stock, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Kerry Clark, Harvard University; Joshua Angrist, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT; and Rosalind Wright Harris and Theodore P. Wright Jr.
 
Monday, October 3, 2011
12:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Winthrop Street Hall, 51 Winthrop Street

American Democracy in Crisis Speaker Series

The American Democracy in Crisis speaker series presents
Simon Johnson
Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT
Former Chief Economist, IMF
on
The Next Financial Meltdown

Wednesday, September 28, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Robinson Hall, Rm. 253
Tufts University, 212 College Avenue

2011 Wellington Burnham Lecture

The 2011 Wellington Burnham Lecture brings you "The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States." Professor David Autor of MIT presenting.
 
Thursday, April 21, 2011
4:30-6:00 p.m.
*Updated location
Winthrop Street Hall, 51 Winthrop Street

2011 Birger Lecture

The 2011 Birger Lecture Series bring you "After Copenhagen & Cancun: What is the Politically Feasible Path to Comprehensive Targets for Greenhouse Gas Emissions?"
Professor Jeffrey Frankel of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University presenting.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Barnum, Rm. 008
*Reception to follow

Majors Week 2011

Thinking about a major in Economics? Faculty from the Economics Department will be available with information on declaring a major, the majors and minors available, finding an advisor, and studying abroad.

Thursday, March, 10, 2011
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Braker Hall, Rm. 222
*Refreshments will be served

Conference on "Greece, Portugal, Spain and The European Sovereign Debt Crisis"

Co-sponsored by The Greek Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and the Department of Economics, Tufts University.

Friday, October 22, 2010
Lower Level Conference Room, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Greek Study Group wishes to announce its first event for the academic year. Additional events on the current Greek crisis have been planned and will be announced later in the Fall.

Please click here for program details.

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