The Department of Economics at New York University
has risen to national prominence in recent years and today stands
as one of the outstanding departments in the country. Rated sixth
in a recently updated Dusansky-Vernon (1992) Journal of Economic
Literature study which ranked departments in terms of the publications
of their faculty in top-five rated journals, the department boasts
of a set of highly productive scholars whose work ranges across
all of the standard fields in economics.
Graduate education in the department
is organized around two stand-alone programs: the Ph.D Program, whose aim is to train research scholars for careers
in either academia or the business and government world, and an
MA Program which
is more applied in nature and less oriented toward careers in academia..
Recent graduates from the department's Ph.D. have
attained jobs at the University of Minnesota, The University of
Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin, Pompeu Fabra, UCLA Berkeley, and other top economics departments. Graduates form
the Masters program currently hold jobs in a variety of fields in
the New York area, including the financial, managerial consulting,
and work in the non-profit sector.
In addition to the Ph.D. and M.A. program, the
department is heavily involved in teaching at the undergraduate
level where we offer a B.A. degree
including an honors program.
The Department offers a well rounded education
in economics. It is especially strong in economic theory, both on
the micro and macro levels, as well as in the applied fields of
political economy, industrial economics, labor economics, international
economics and growth and development. In addition, the department
offers joint degrees with both the School
of Law and the Medical
School, both outstanding professional schools. Affiliated with
the department is the C.
V. Starr Center for Applied Economics which is the research
arm of the department of economics.
The C. V. Starr Center for Applied Economics,
directed by Professor Jonathan Eaton, attempts to bridge the gap between academic research
and decision making in business and government. The Center analyzes
issues of important economic and social consequences in order to
improve tomorrow's economic decisions.
Finally, intellectual life in the department
is centered around a wide variety of weekly research seminars (see
Seminar
Schedule) in the areas of Micro-Economics, Macro-Economics,
International Economics (run jointly with the Stern
School of Business), Applied Economics, Industrial Organization
(run jointly with the Stern
School of Business). In addition, the department is host to
a large number of visitors who spend time here in collaboration
with our department members. As a result, students are exposed to
a continuous weekly flow of researchers whose work is on the frontiers
of knowledge in their fields.
