Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Information about the 2007-2008 job market candidates is now available.

Interested in a position in the Department of Economics? Apply here.

The Spring 2008 Midwest Economic Theory and International Economics Meetings will be hosted by the department. The meetings are joint with a conference in honor of Wayne J. Shafer.

The Conference on Iran's Economy will be hosted by our Department on December 11-13, 2008.

Our Faculty in the News

      Fred Giertz and Anne Villamil on the University of Illinois New Bureau
      Stephen Parente on the Wall Street Journal
      Firouz Gahvari, with Janet Currie of Columbia University, on VoxEU.
      Stefan Krasa and Anne Villamil on Illinois NCSA news
      Anne Villamil in the Chicago Sun Times
      Anne Villamil on 1240 WTAX News Radio discussing the recent interest rate hike
      Werner Baer in Inside Illinois
      Ming Hsu in the Wall Street Journal

New faculty for Fall 2007

      Kristine Brown (Ph.D., Berkeley) research on retirement decisions and other empirical labor economics topics;

      Daniela Puzzelo (PhD, Purdue) research on search and monetary theory;

      Luciano de Castro (PhD, IMPA) research on auction theory.

News about the department: faculty research, guest lecturers, scholarship winners, and more (pdf).