Economics Department News

By Student Department Advisor Delina Haileab Professor Denise Hare is the SIT Investment Visiting Professor of Asian Policy in the Economics Department at Carleton College for fall term 2021. Denise…

After Cyclone Amphan ravaged Bangladesh in May, killing 26 people and causing millions to evacuate, Carleton economics professor Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan felt compelled to send the people of his homeland…

This change has been made in order to more accurately reflect the mathematical nature of the field of economics, which goes to the heart of the economic approach and is reflected in courses across the department at all levels.

Economics Alumna Kimberly Clausing,’91 Joins Treasury Department as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis, Office of Tax Policy The U.S. Department of Treasury recently announced the appointment of several…

Professor Michael Hemesath returns to Carleton’s Economics Department this year, teaching Principles of Macroeconomics as well as International Finance.

Professor Eduard Storm joins the Carleton Economics Department faculty as a visiting professor this academic year.

Meet the 2020-21 leadership team for WE+ (Women and Non-Binary Identifying Persons in Economics.)

Carleton awards tenure to economic professor Prathi Seneviratne.

Adam Bigelow ’20 and Siang Wongrattanapiboon ’20 received this year’s Ada Harrison Prize in Economics, and Sharan Ganjam Seshachallam ‘20 received the Robert Will Economics Prize.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded jointly to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer.