About the Department of Economics

Welcome to the Department of Economics of the University at Albany, State University of New York. Our Department has a strong* faculty engaged in a wide range of applied and theoretical research. Our strengths include econometrics, macroeconomics, microeconomic theory, labor economics and public economics.

We offer programs leading to the B.A., B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Our graduates obtain positions throughout the world in academia, business, government and other agencies and organizations.

We invite you to browse the links on these pages to become acquainted with our people, programs and activities. Please feel free to contact us using the address on the right side of every page.

*In a recent ranking of U.S. economics departments (Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1998), UAlbany placed twenty fourth among public universities and forty fourth overall on the basis of per capita pages published in top economics journals.

News & Events
Joop Hartog Visits the Department during September and October Professor Joop Hartog, a labor economist from the University of Amsterdam, is visiting the department during September and October.  Professor Hartog is an internationally recognized scholar with hundreds of publications. He is staying in BA 109C.	Panel Discussion on the Financial Crisis with John Geanakoplos The Department of Economics held a panel discussion on the financial crisis featuring John Geanakoplos, James Tobin Professor of Economics at Yale University. Other panelists included Professors Betty Daniel and Bruce Dieffenbach.	Gultekin Isiklar, Ph.D. 2005, and Kajal Lahiri win IJF Best Paper Prize Kajal Lahiri's paper "How Far Ahead Can we Forecast?", with Gultekin Isiklar, Albany Ph.D. 2005, won a $1000 prize and the Best Paper Award for 2006 and 2007 from the International Journal of Forecasting.
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