Economics

Field Description

Doctoral degree candidates must choose a major and at least two minor subjects, one of which can be basic analytical economics. Within the first year of study, Ph.D. students should complete requirements in mathematics and econometrics and pass qualifying examinations in micro- and macroeconomics. Completing those core requirements, and selecting a core committee member, satisfy the requirements of the basic analytical economics minor.

Students interested in this field may also want to consider the Fields of Agricultural Economics; and Management.

Contact Information

Website: http://economics.cornell.edu/
Email: econgfa@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-4893

429 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

Data and Statistics

• Doctoral Program Statistics

Field Manual

• Manual

Subject and Degrees

Economics

• Economics (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)

Concentrations by Subject

Economics

• applied economics
• basic analytical economics
• econometrics and economic statistics
• economic development and planning
• economic history
• economic systems
• economic theory
• economics of education
• health economics
• industrial organization and control
• international economics
• labor economics
• monetary and macro economics
• public finance

Faculty

Jawad Mohmad Addoum

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics
• Research Interests: Behavioral finance, climate finance, empirical asset pricing, household finance, portfolio choice

Amanda Y Agan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; labor economics
• Research Interests: Economics of crime, labor economics, discrimination

Jenny Carson Aker

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic development and planning
• Research Interests: Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, Economics of Education, Technology Adoption

Sule Alan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: economics of education
• Research Interests: Behavioral Science, Education Policy, Inequality

Warren Bernard Bailey

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; international economics
• Research Interests: finance; international finance

Matthew David Baron

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; international economics; monetary and macro economics

Christopher Brendan Barrett

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic development and planning
• Research Interests: agricultural development; environmental, resource, and international economics

Levon Barseghyan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics; international economics; monetary and macro economics; public finance
• Research Interests: applied economics; international economics; monetary and macro economics; basic analytical economics

Arnab Basu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics
• Research Interests: labor economics

Kaushik Basu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: economic development and planning; economic theory; industrial organization and control; international economics; public finance
• Research Interests: child labor; literacy and development

Marco Battaglini

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics; economic theory
• Research Interests: Political Economy

Michele Belot

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economics of education; health economics; labor economics
• Research Interests: labor economics, health economics, and behavioral economics

Garrick Blalock

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic development and planning
• Research Interests: managerial economics; development

Justin Bloesch

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: labor economics; monetary and macro economics
• Research Interests: Wage Setting, Monopsony, Investment, Inflation

Robert J Bloomfield

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics
• Research Interests: applied economics; basic analytical economics

Lawrence Edward Blume

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic theory; public finance
• Research Interests: economic theory; game theory

Nicolas L. Bottan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: public finance
• Research Interests: public finance, behavioral economics

George R Boyer

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic history; labor economics
• Research Interests: economic history; labor economics; history of economic thought

Colleen Marie Carey

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; health economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: health economics

Julieta Caunedo

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics; monetary and macro economics
• Research Interests: macroeconomics

John H Cawley

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; health economics; labor economics; public finance
• Research Interests: labor, applied economics; public finance

Ryan Chahrour

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: international economics; monetary and macro economics
• Research Interests: expectations and information, the sources of business cycles, international finance

Ho Yan (Nancy) Chau

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic development and planning; international economics
• Research Interests: international economics; economic development; applied economics

Yi Chen

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: economic theory
• Research Interests: microeconomic theory

Stephen Coate

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic theory; public finance
• Research Interests: public economics; political economy; economic theory

Will Cong

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics
• Research Interests: financial economics

Adam Emerson Dearing

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: econometrics and economic statistics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: Applied microeconomics, applied econometrics, IO, public finance

Milena Nikolaeva Djourelova

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics
• Research Interests: Political economy, applied microeconomics

David Alan Easley

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; econometrics and economic statistics; economic theory; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: economic theory; financial economics

Geoffrey W Fisher

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics
• Research Interests: behavioral economics, experimental economics

Maria Fitzpatrick

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics; economics of education; labor economics; public finance
• Research Interests: economics of education; public economics; labor economics

Christopher M Forman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: Economics of digitization; Productivity, innovation, and entrepreneurship

Raymond Richard Geddes

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control; public finance
• Research Interests: applied economics; industrial industrial organization; law and economics; basic analytical economics; policy analysis and management

Miguel I. Gomez

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics
• Research Interests: food distribution and marketing; quantitative methods

Yaniv Grinstein

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics
• Research Interests: corporate finance; corporate governance

Adam Harris

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: Transportation, technology

George Alan Hay

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: industrial organization; antitrust policy; law and economics

Ori Heffetz

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; public finance
• Research Interests: behavioral economics; social and cultural aspects of consumer behavior

John Frederick Hoddinott

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic development and planning
• Research Interests: poverty; food insecurity and under-nutrition; design/evaluation of interventions

Sylvia Hristakeva

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Quantitative Marketing

Ming Huang

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic theory
• Research Interests: behavioral finance and asset pricing

George Hersch Jakubson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; econometrics and economic statistics; labor economics; public finance
• Research Interests: labor economics; econometrics; applied economics

Robert Alan Jarrow

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic theory
• Research Interests: economic theory; finance

Lawrence J. Jin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic theory
• Research Interests: Behavioral Finance, Asset Pricing, Neuroeconomics, Household Finance

Justin P Johnson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic theory; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: applied microeconomic theory; theoretical industrial organization

Thomas Jungbauer

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: economic theory; industrial organization and control; labor economics
• Research Interests: high-skill labor markets; industrial organization and entrepreneurship

David R Just

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; econometrics and economic statistics
• Research Interests: agricultural economics; behavioral economics; risk and uncertainty; food and nutrition policy

Vrinda Kadiyali

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: competition in pricing; advertising

Harry Mason Kaiser

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics

Nathan Kallus

• Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; econometrics and economic statistics
• Research Interests: Causal inference, machine learning, sequential and dynamic decision making, algorithmic fairness, optimization under uncertainty

Sanjiv (Ravi) Kanbur

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic development and planning; international economics; public finance
• Research Interests: public economics; agricultural economics; development economics

Max Kapustin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; health economics; labor economics
• Research Interests: applied economics, economics of crime, education, housing, and poverty; policy analysis

George Andrew Karolyi

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; international economics
• Research Interests: finance; international finance; asset privacy models; investments; corporate finance; corporate governance

Kengo Kato

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: econometrics and economic statistics
• Research Interests: High dimensional and nonparametric econometrics, quantile regression

Donald S Kenkel

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; health economics; industrial organization and control; public finance
• Research Interests: health economics; public finance

Nicholas Maximillian Kiefer

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; econometrics and economic statistics; economic theory; labor economics; monetary and macro economics
• Research Interests: econometrics; statistics; economics of information; search; dynamic programming; financial econometrics

Philipp Kircher

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: economic theory; labor economics; monetary and macro economics
• Research Interests: labor economics, technological change, models of epidemiology

Catherine Louise Kling

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic systems
• Research Interests: environmental, energy and resource economics

Lauri Valtteri Kytomaa

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: Industrial organization, household finance, real estate, public policy

Pauline Leung

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: labor economics; public finance
• Research Interests: public economics, labor economics

Benjamin Leyden

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: Digitization, Information, Antitrust

Shanjun Li

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: environmental and energy economics; empirical industrial organization; applied microeconomics

Anran Li

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: health economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: industrial organization, health economics

Jurate Liaukonyte

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: industrial organization; economics of advertising

C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics; econometrics and economic statistics; economic theory; industrial organization and control; public finance
• Research Interests: environmental and resource economics, energy economics, industrial economics, applied econometrics and applied microeconomics

Jeremy Lise

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: labor economics; monetary and macro economics
• Research Interests: equilibrium labor search, human capital, household economics

Michael F. Lovenheim

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; labor economics; public finance
• Research Interests: public finance; labor economics; economics of education

Alan D. Mathios

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: consumer protection; antitrust law and economics; public utility regulation; federal and state regulation

Douglas L. Miller

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: econometrics and economic statistics; health economics; labor economics
• Research Interests: applied microeconomics; applied microeonometrics

Francesca Molinari

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; econometrics and economic statistics; labor economics
• Research Interests: econometrics; identification; survey methodology; labor economics

Jose Luis Montiel Olea

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: econometrics and economic statistics
• Research Interests: Econometrics, Machine Learning, and Statistical Decision Theory

David Tat-Chee Ng

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; international economics
• Research Interests: finance; international finance

Sean M. Nicholson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; econometrics and economic statistics; economic development and planning; economic history; economic systems; economic theory; health economics; industrial organization and control; international economics; labor economics; monetary and macro economics; public finance
• Research Interests: applied economics; public finance; basic analytical economics

Preben Kristofer Nimark

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics; monetary and macro economics
• Research Interests: Macroeconomics

Elio Nimier-David

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economics of education; labor economics; public finance
• Research Interests: Labor Economics, Spatial Economics, Public Economics, Entrepreneurship

Edward Donald O'Donoghue

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic theory; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: behavioral economics; industrial organization; game theory

Maureen P O'Hara

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics
• Research Interests: financial economics; applied economics

Ezra Oberfield

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: international economics; monetary and macro economics
• Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Firm Dynamics, Growth, Trade

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic development and planning
• Research Interests: environmental, resource and agricultural economics; development economics; climate change economics

Eleonora Patacchini

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics; econometrics and economic statistics; labor economics

Zhuan Pei

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; econometrics and economic statistics; labor economics
• Research Interests: labor economics, econometrics

Prabhu L. Pingali

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics

Eswar S. Prasad

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: international economics; labor economics; monetary and macro economics
• Research Interests: international economics; monetary and macroeconomics; labor economics

Marcel Preuss

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: applied microeconomic theory, experimental economics

Chen Qiu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: econometrics and economic statistics
• Research Interests: Econometrics

Collin Buckley Raymond

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: economic theory
• Research Interests: Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics

Imke Reimers

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: industrial organization; applied microeconomics

Evan Riehl

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: economics of education; labor economics
• Research Interests: labor; education

Stuart Rosenthal

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; labor economics; public finance
• Research Interests: Urban Economics; Real Estate Finance and Economics

Gideon Saar

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic theory
• Research Interests: financial economics; market microstructure; behavioral finance; investments

David Ezra Sahn

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic development and planning; labor economics
• Research Interests: economic development; economics of health and education; applied economics

Nicholas James Sanders

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; health economics
• Research Interests: health economics

Seth Sanders

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; labor economics; public finance
• Research Interests: labor economics, econometrics

Heather Ward Schofield

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic development and planning; health economics
• Research Interests: Economic development, behavioral economics, health economics

Daniela Scur

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic development and planning; labor economics
• Research Interests: organizational economics, labor, productivity

Robert Stewart Smith

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: labor economics
• Research Interests: labor economics; public finance

Jason A Sockin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; labor economics
• Research Interests: Job amenities, firm reputation, human capital

Joerg Stoye

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; econometrics and economic statistics; economic theory
• Research Interests: econometrics; decision theory

Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: monetary and macro economics
• Research Interests: macro-economist; business cycles

Alexei Tchistyi

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; economic theory
• Research Interests: Real Estate Finance, Corporate Finance, Contract Theory

Sharon Tennyson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control
• Research Interests: policy analysis and management; industrial organization; applied economics

Lars Vilhuber

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; basic analytical economics
• Research Interests: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics

Michael Waldman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics; industrial organization and control; labor economics; monetary and macro economics; public finance
• Research Interests: applied microeconomics; labor economics; industrial organization

Eleanor Wilking

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: economic history; labor economics; public finance
• Research Interests: Tax law and policy

Mao Ye

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Economics: applied economics
• Research Interests: Market Microstructure and Big Data