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…
Professor Sangeeta Pratap of the Economics Department has been awarded the Banamex Prize, Mexico’s most distinguished award for Economics. Established in 1951, this annual prize, administered by the Banco Nacional de Mexico, a leading commercial bank recognizes research that relates to the analysis and solution of economic problems in Mexico. Read more…
On May 11, 2016, B.A./M.A. Economics Student Eden Volkov who also majors in Mathematics, was honored with induction into the Pi Mu Epsilon Honors Society for her excellence in mathematics with one of the ten highest GPAs among math majors at Hunter College. The Pi Mu Epsilon Honorary national mathematics Read more…
Professor Lisa George was interviewed by the Associated Press Insights Blog for her research on “Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News,”. See her interview here and read more on Associated Press Insights.
Hunter College M.A. Economics student Carmen Vargas was featured in a BloombergView article by Cass R. Sunstein for her research on the effects of calorie labeling. Click here to read the article, “Calorie Counts Really Do Fight Obesity.” See the NBER working paper by Carmen Vargas and Hunter Professor Partha Deb, Read more…
Wei Yu joins the accounting program in the department of economics. Dr. Yu earned her doctorate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, and has previously taught at University of Tennessee and Lehigh University. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Yu worked for KPMG as an auditor.
Jessica Van Parys is a new assistant professor of economics. Dr. Van Parys specializes in healthcare and public policy research. She will be spending the 2015-16 academic year as a post-doctoral researcher at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and will begin teaching at Hunter in the Read more…