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Upcoming Events

2025–26 Seminar Series

Friday, September 26: Katherine Richard, University of Wisconsin, "Penalties in the Safety Net:��Effects of Work Requirement Enforcement on Program Participation and Labor Supply"

For future seminars check out the��seminar��series calendar, all seminars are��held 3–4:30 p.m. in Seminar Room 5 unless otherwise noted.

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Fall classes began Thursday, August 21. Important dates can be found on the university's����and watch the course schedule��for the latest changes and updates to��Economics courses.��If you have any questions about courses or recitation schedules��please email��kit.colombo@colorado.edu.

Winter Recognition Ceremony

Social Sciences (SSCI) will be hosting the Winter Recognition Ceremony this year for SSCI graduates.��
Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom in UMC • When: Saturday, December 13, 2025 from 9 a.m.–Noon

Announcements

Main Office

The main office, ECON 212,��is open 8:30��a.m.–Noon and 1–5��p.m. Monday through Friday. In the event that something��needs 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 the��People 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 Journal��of 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 Policy��and received a revise and resubmit
• Sara Avila: Two ��interviews on tariffs (spanish), "" and ""
• Bikalpa Baniya has been selected to receive a��Flower Family Graduate Student Award��for the proposal submitted to the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant program.
• Liaoyuan (Leo) Zhang has been selected to receive a��Beverly��Sears Award for the proposal submitted to the��Beverly��Sears 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)
• Murat Iyigun and his music in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine article, "He will, he will rock you"
• Research at Notre Dame's Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities��by Patrick Turner��(CU Boulder Econ PhD, 2018) featured in ""
• CU Boulder Today article, "How efforts to make heavy trucks more efficient could hit a roadblock," features research by��Jonathan Hughes
• Jonathan Hughes��in��KUTV's article, ""
• Ann Carlos was the inaugural recipient of the . Professor Carlos gave the , where the medal was��formally presented, on Thursday 11��April 2024

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