Economics Department News

The 116th Commencement Exercises were held Sunday, May 17, 2009, on the Marston Quadrangle in front of Bridges Auditorium.  One of our students graduated Summa Cum Laude, four students Magna Cum Laude, and eight students Cum Laude. During the academic year we again had high  enrollments, although slightly less than last year. Once again economics had the most majors in the college: 50 Economics plus 3 PPE-Economics and 4 PPA-Economics.  We had 3 economics minors. Twenty won department or college awards. Two were inaugural Robert Day Scholars at CMC.

Slavi Slavov received tenure.  Tahir Andrabi was promoted to full professor, and Ludwig Chincarini had his contract renewed.

Cecilia Conrad was hired as Pomona College's new Vice President and Dean of the College.

Michael Steinberger was a Visiting Scholar at the Williams Institute at UCLA's School of Law; Fernando Lozano was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Poverty Center in the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy; and Tahir Andrabi shuttled between Pakistan, Washington DC, and Claremont.

We hired an impressive macro-econometrician, Mr. Pierangelo De Pace from Johns Hopkins University. 

Eleanor Brown won the Wig Teaching Award.

We hosted 9 colloquia, including renowned British banker Sir Andrew Crockett, economist Asim Khwaja from the Harvard Kennedy School, Kevin Lang from Boston University, and Preston McAfee from Cal Tech.

The Economics Club hosted several successful events including broomball, a barbecue, and dodgeball with Politics.

Faculty had 23 journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, policy reports, and encyclopedia entries published, including three with students.

Faculty have 9 articles, book chapters, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries forthcoming, including on with a student.

Faculty have two books forthcoming: Feminist Economics: A Special Issue on Aids, Gender, Sexuality, and Development, co-edited by Cecilia Conrad and Cheryl Doss, and Learning and Educational Achievement in Punjab Schools (LEAPS): Insights to Inform the Policy Debate by Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Khwaja, Tara Vishwanath, and Tristan Zajonc.

 The student Investment Club, Sagehen Capital Management, again beat their benchmark and showed impressive earnings.

Cecilia Conrad continued to serve as President of the International Association for Feminist Economics.

James Likens continued to serve as President and Dean of the Western CUNA Management School for credit union professionals.

Cecilia Conrad continued to serve as Editor of The Review of Black Political Economy and Associate Editor of Feminist Economics, Eleanor Brown continued to serve as Deputy Editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Steve Marks continued a 5-year term on the International Advisory Board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economics Studies