Department News

Corrine Berchtold, Benjamin Bonitz, Cassidy Bowes, and Olivia Brownell are the 2022 recipients of the Gordon Karp memorial award for outstanding academic performance in economics. The Gordon Karp Memorial Fund was established as a memorial to Gordon Karp, to honor his special character and commitment to high standards of academic achievement.

Economics doctoral student Deepti Sikri has been selected as a recipient of Benevolent Association Research Grant for Spring 2022. Her research project is titled “Effect of Macroprudential Policy on Exchange Market Pressure”. The research aims to study the impact of macroprudential policy on measures of exchange market pressure in emerging markets and OECD countries using causal inference methods.

Economics doctoral students Quan Qi, Min Jang and Xue Wu are each receiving $1,500 from the Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) to attend the 2022 American Society of Health Economists conference held in Austin, Texas in June 2022.

Won Sung, who is expected to finish his PhD degree in May 2022, is receiving financial support for his conference presentation from the Graduate Student Employees Union (GSEU). He plans to present his research at the 20th International Industrial Organization Conference held in Boston in May 2022.

Cassidy Bowes has been selected as a recipient of the 2021-2022 Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research at the University at Albany for her research project titled, “Gender differences in labor market outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic" under the supervision of Professor Pinka Chatterji.

A study led by a UAlbany economist reveals that workers who use science, technology, engineering and mathematics knowledge on the job had a much easier time retaining and acquiring jobs during the COVID-19 recession.

University at Albany Assistant Professor of Economics Chun-Yu Ho has recently led a study examining the adoption of mobile payments. Publishing in Management Science, Ho and his colleagues found that consumers are more likely to use mobile payment methods when they receive price incentives for doing so.

Anne Case received the American Economic Association Distinguished Fellow award for 2021. Case is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and received her BA in Economics from the University at Albany in 1980. Trained as a labor economist, Case has made seminal contributions in the fields of health, development, and labor economics, with scholarship that has garnered wide recognition across sciences and social sciences alike and sparked public conversation around the negative impacts of rising socio-economic inequality in the U.S. Read more about Anne Case's academic contributions