Economics Department News

Check out the Instagram feed of the Summer 2018 Economics and European Studies Program in Cambridge as the group travels to Brussels, Lille, London, Manchester, and of course, Cambridge!

Three Econ Seniors swept the MEA undergraduate paper contest this year, read on to see who won top honors for Senior Thesis, Term Paper, and Economic Communication.

Faress Bhuiyan, Assistant Professor of Economics, published a book chapter in Alleviating World Suffering: The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life, (2017) edited by Ron Anderson. The paper titled, “Alleviating Mental Suffering in Rural Bangladesh: Evidence from a Survey of Three Villages,” investigates the sources of two types of self-reported mental suffering in rural Bangladesh: feeling worried and feeling depressed.

The Minnesota Economic Association (MEA) announced winners of the 2017 annual Undergraduate Paper Contest. Congrats to Il Shan Ng ’17, who was awarded First Place in the Senior Thesis division with his Comps paper “The Relationship Between Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption and Long-Run Growth: A Vector Autoregressive Approach.” His Carleton advisor was Stephie Fried. Winning paper contest entries were recognized at an awards ceremony at the 2017 MEA Conference.

Join us in welcoming two new faculty members, Assistant Professors Yaniv Ben-Ami and Ethan Struby, to the Economics Department!

If you have not yet had a chance to meet Yaniv and Ethan, stop by our department on the 3rd floor of Willis Hall.

What do basketball and square dancing have in common? For Pete Bakker-Arkema ’17, both helped define his Carleton experience.

Carleton economics professor Faress Bhuiyan has joined the ranks of the many psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists who have sought to answer the question What makes us happy?

Congratulations to 2016 Carleton Economics graduate Robert Krossa for winning 1st place in the 2016 Minnesota Economic Association’s Undergraduate Paper Contest for his Senior Thesis, “Skill Spills: A Cross-Skill Group Analysis on Wage Spillovers of Good Jobs”!  His advisor was Professor Jenny Bourne

This fall term the Economics Department welcomes 3 new faculty: Assistant Professor Jonathan Lafky and Visiting Instructors Shane Auerbach and Theresa Bauer.

Assistant Professor of Economics Faress Bhuiyan and Radek Szulga (Lyon College) co-authored an article on the individual level determinants of happiness which has been published in Applied Economics.