Economics
Upcoming Events
Winter Recognition Ceremony
Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom in UMC • When: Saturday, December 13, 2025 from 9 a.m.–Noon.
Doors open for seating at 9 a.m. Ceremony begins at 9:15 a.m. Reception to follow ceremony in same location.
Social Sciences (SSCI) will be hosting the Winter Recognition Ceremony this year for SSCI graduates. The division ceremony is open to all graduates from the departments of Anthropology, Economics, Ethnic Studies, International Affairs, Linguistics, Political Science, Sociology, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, and Women and Gender Studies.Contact: Layne Lewis.
SpringClasses
Spring classes begin Thursday, January 8. 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.
2025–26 Seminar Series
For future seminars check out theseminarseries calendar, all seminars areheld 3–4:30 p.m. in Seminar Room 5 unless otherwise noted.
Announcements
Main Office
The main office is closed November 24–28, if you need assistance Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday please email Kit Colombo or Karen Kelly. The main office, ECON 212,is open 8:00a.m.–Noon and 1–5p.m. Monday through Friday except when noted for holiday closures. 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 University
- 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)
Publication Showcase
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.Yongmin Chen
"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, forthcomingJonathan Hughes
"Managing No-Shows in Public Resource Allocation: The Economics of Campground Reservations,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.Murat Iyigun
"Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis," (with Ali Almelhem, Austin Kennedy and Jared Rubin) Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.Taylor Jaworski
"," with Alex Hollingsworth, Carl Kitchens, and Ivan Rudik, Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, 2026.Xiaodong Liu
"," (with Chih-Sheng Hsieh and Michael Kӧnig) The RAND Journal of Economics, 2025.
"," (with Hyunseok Jung) Journal of Econometrics, accepted.
"," (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
"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.Carol Shiue
"," Journal of Economic History, June 2025, 85(2), pp. 370-410.
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