Economics
Upcoming Events
2025–26 Seminar Series
Friday, October 17: Nageeb Ali, Penn State, "When Colleges Compete: Signals, Noise, and Equilibrium Outcomes"
Friday, October 24: Yong Cai,Թ of Wisconsin–Madison, "Regression Discontinuity Design with Spillovers"
For future seminars check out theseminarseries calendar, all seminars areheld 3–4:30 p.m. in Seminar Room 5 unless otherwise noted.
CUPC/Pop Lecture: Martha Bailey
The CU Population Center is hosting the 2025 Association of Population Centers meeting! (UCLA Economics) will provide a talk on M-CARES, the Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research and Evaluation Study, on Thursday, October 23. Join us in room 155 for this special lecture! Talk is hosted by both CUPC and the Population Program at IBS.
Fall classes began Thursday, August 21. Important dates can be found on the university'sand watch the course schedulefor the latest changes and updates toEconomics courses.If you have any questions about courses or recitation schedulesplease emailkit.colombo@colorado.edu.
Winter Recognition Ceremony
Social Sciences (SSCI) will be hosting the Winter Recognition Ceremony this year for SSCI graduates.
Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom in UMC • When: Saturday, December 13, 2025 from 9 a.m.–Noon
Announcements
Main Office
The main office, ECON 212,is open 8:30a.m.–Noon and 1–5p.m. Monday through Friday. In the event that somethingneeds immediate attention when the front office is not available, please email the appropriate staff member for assistance. Email addresses and phone numbers are available under thePeople Tab.
Department Highlights
- Joongsan Hwang's paper "Seller-buyer Bargaining Explained by Fixed Bargaining Costs, Risk Preferences and Value Discovery," conditionally accepted at Journal of Applied Economic Sciences
- Elizabeth Sorensen Montoya's (PhD '25), paper "," has been accepted by the Journalof Environmental Economics and Management for publication September 2025.
- Harry Johnson prize for the best paper in the Canadian Journal of Economics in 2024 awarded to James Markusen: “,” (with Antoine Gervais and Anthony Venables) Canadian Journal of Economics 57(4) (2024), 1236-1264.
- Pan Chen has been awarded a CU Graduate School Summer Fellowship. The fellowship provides a biweekly stipend to allow the student to pursue their research during the summer.
- talks about presenting his honors thesis, "Airbnb Density, Housing Prices, and Short-Term Rental Restrictions in Hawaii," at the Carroll Round Economics Conference at Georgetown Թ
- Joongsan Hwang's Job Market Paper "Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information and Risk Preference: An Analysis of Brinkmanship" submitted to Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policyand received a revise and resubmit
- Sara Avila: Two interviews on tariffs (spanish), "" and ""
- Bikalpa Baniya has been selected to receive aFlower Family Graduate Student Awardfor the proposal submitted to the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant program.
- Liaoyuan (Leo) Zhang has been selected to receive aBeverlySears Award for the proposal submitted to theBeverlySears Graduate Student Research Grant program.
- Exploring selfish incentives for pursuing climate policy: CU Boulder economist Alessandro Peri makes the case that empowering the young can meaningfully affect climate policy and climate outcomes in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
- : Sara Avila discusses the economic impact of some of the proposals of both Presidential Candidates (Podcast in Spanish)
- Murat Iyigun and his music in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine article, "He will, he will rock you"
- Research at Notre Dame's Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunitiesby Patrick Turner(CU Boulder Econ PhD, 2018) featured in ""
- CU Boulder Today article, "How efforts to make heavy trucks more efficient could hit a roadblock," features research byJonathan Hughes
- Jonathan HughesinKUTV's article, ""
- Ann Carlos was the inaugural recipient of the . Professor Carlos gave the , where the medal wasformally presented, on Thursday 11April 2024
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Publication Showcase
Francisca Antman
"When Beer is Safer than Water: Beer Availability and Mortality from Waterborne Illnesses," (with James M. Flynn). Journal of Development Economics, 171(2024), 103343. October 2024.Jeronimo Carballo
"Import Processing and Trade Costs,"Import Processing and Trade Costs," (with Alejandro Graziano, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus) Journal of International Economics, 154, 2025.
"The Effect of Transit Systems on International Trade," (with Alejandro Graziano, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus) Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106.Yongmin Chen
"Search and Competition under Product Quality Uncertainty," Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol 72, Issue 2, p. 633-661, 2024.
"Multimarket Firms and Product Liability: Uniform vs. Variable Rules," (with X. Hua) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, forthcoming.
"Search and Competition in Expert Markets," (with C. Cao, Y. Ding, and T. Zhang) RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming.Murat Iyigun
"," (with Joris Muller and Nancy Qian)American Economic Review, May 2024.Taylor Jaworski
"," (with Alex Hollingsworth, Carl Kitchens, and Ivan Rudik) Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, conditionally accepted.Xiaodong Liu
"," (withChih-Sheng Hsieh and Michael Kӧnig)The RAND Journal of Economics,accepted.
"," (with Ingmar R. Prucha) Journal of Econometrics 247, 105925, 2025.Richard Mansfield
"," (with Zachary Szlendak) Journal of Human Resources, accepted.AdamMcCloskey
"" (with Pascal Michaillat)Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
"," (with Philipp Ketz)Review of Economics and Statistics,forthcoming.Sergey Nigai
"Trade and Inequality: A Sufficient-Statistics Approach," (with Dongkyu Yang) Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics20242:3,508-552
"International Transmission of Inequality through Trade," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming.Alessandro Peri
"Unintended Consequences of Money-Laundering Regulations," (Fabrizio Colella and Keith E. Maskus) Economic Journal, conditionally accepted, 2025.
"Programming FPGAs for Economics: An Introduction to Electrical Engineering Economics," (with Cheela, Bhagath, et al.) Quantitative Economics, vol. 16, .no 1, Econometric Society, 2025, pp. 49-87.
"," (with Omar Rachedi and Iacopo Varotto)The Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.Ernesto Rivera Mora
"," Journal of Economic Theory216 (2024): 105782.Carol Shiue
"," Journal of Economic History, forthcoming.