8/17/19. We are saddened to announce that Professor Marjorie Honig, long time chair of the Economics and Accounting Department at Hunter College, passed away on August 15, 2019. Professor Honig earned a BA from Chatham College, an MIA from the School of International Affairs at Columbia, and a PhD from Read more…
Getting a bachelor’s degree in Economics will pay off — big time. According to the Wall Street Journal, the percent change from starting to mid-career salary, with just an Economics undergraduate degree, is 96.8%. Undergraduate degrees in Nursing, Chemistry, and Civil Engineering have lower starting to mid-career salary percent changes. Read more…
6/20/19 The topics of Big Data and Data Analytics will be incorporated into ACCP 47600 and ECO 79584, taught by Professor Michelle Liu and Professor Christine Tan, respectively, in the Fall of 2019. In ACCP 47600, for undergraduates, Professor Liu will cover practicing Excel Skills through SIMNet modules and working Read more…
6/20/19 Two of our outstanding BA/MA graduates, Elizabet Shvets and Anjelica Gangaram, will enter Ph.D. programs in the Fall of 2019 at George Washington University and the University of Michigan, respectively. Read more about their accomplishments below: Elizabet Shvets completed the BA/MA Economics program with a minor in Mathematics at Read more…
6/17/19 The Department is excited to announce that four students have earned internships with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) for the Summer of 2019. Congratulations to our students: Alexia Cox (SEC Intern), Aidana Razhap (SEC Intern), Peiyi Yuan (FASB Intern), and Eric Read more…
8/25/18 Accounting alumna Alicia Baksh-Ousman’s inspirational story was highlighted in the New York Times article “Convergence in the Tale of Two Cities”. Alicia served as the Accounting Society President and took part in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program during her time at Hunter. She joined CohnReznick, the accounting Read more…
11/15/17 We will be offering two new undergraduate courses this spring! ECO 233: Economics of the Media ECO 295.61 Time, Money & Human Nature Please click here, or visit the undergraduate economics course list for course descriptions.
6/15/17 Monica Deza is an Assistant Professor of Economics. Her research interests include Economics of crime, Economics of Risky Health Behaviors, Applied Microeconometrics and Labor Economics. A common theme in her work is how various policies affect adolescent propensity to engage in crime and drug consumption. Her recent research examines Read more…
Meet Chi Yeon Kim, the first Hunter student to be employed as an XBRL Summer Intern for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Established in 1973, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is the independent, private-sector, not-for-profit organization based in Norwalk, Connecticut, that establishes financial accounting and reporting standards for Read more…
Randall K Filer, Professor of Economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (and a Visiting Professor at CERGE-EI as well as a member of its Executive and Supervisory Committee) received the Czech Economic Society’s Medallion for “Long-Term Contribution to the Development of Read more…