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Seminars and Lectures
Dornbush/Roby/Grey Seminar Series:

Including departmental, empirical, statistical, economic history and international econ seminars.

Steine Lecture Series:

The most recent lecture was held Monday, November 14, 2011. The guest speaker was Matthew Jackson of Stanford University

McGee Lecture Series:

The most recent McGee Lecture was Tuesday, March 13, 2012. The guest speaker was Claudia Goldin of Harvard University.

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Professor Emeritus Al Finegan, Advisor John Weymark, Chloe Xiaoyu Qi (recipient of the 2012 T. Aldrich Finegan Award), and Honors Program Director Mario Crucini.

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2012 honors students Spencer Barrett (far left) and Chloe Xiaoyu Qi (3rd from left) and their advisors.

Department News

give The Department of Economics announces the creation of two new funds to support the research activities of doctoral students and undergraduate honors students. Two existing funds support diverse activities within the Department and provide scholarships for students in the Graduate Program in Economic Development.
Please click HERE to see how you can contribute.

rwj With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt University will recruit new Ph.D. students whose research interests include health and health policy. More...

Event News

Taxation Theory Conference was held on May 18--20, 2012
The Identification and Inference in Micro-Econometrics Conference was held on Friday, March 23rd and Saturday, March 24th, 2012, with guest speaker, James Heckman. Click here to view the program.
The 2012 McGee Public Policy Lecture Series presented "The Career-Family Conundrum" with guest speaker Claudia Goldin of Harvard University on Tuesday, March 13th. Click here for more information.

U.S. News & World Report: For Economists, a moment in the sun. Despite a diminished employment outlook for many academics, economists remain in demand in government, buisness, and nonprofits and as consultants or policy analysts. John Siegfried, professor of economics emeritus and William Collins, director of graduate studies in economics, are quoted. Shabana Singh and Caleb Stroup, both students in the Economics Ph.D. program, are pictured. Vanderbilt's joint J.D.-Ph.D. program in law and economics is also mentioned. Click here for more information.