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Department: Economics

Executive Officer: Professor Lilia Maliar

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Email: Economics@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Economics

FACULTY

Terence Agbeyegbe, Linda Allen, Punit Arora, Leticia Arroyo Abad, Seungho Baek, Matthew Baker, Deborah Balk, Karna Basu, Clive Belfield, Howard Chernick, Robert Cherry, Alexander Chinco, Peter Chow, Jonathan Conning, Miles Corak, Prabal De, Partha Deb, John Devereux, Nadejda Doytch, Marianne Fahs, Zadia Feliciano, Elizabeth Field-Hendrey, Randall Filer, David Gabel, Lisa George, Christos Giannikos, Timothy Goodspeed, Guillaume Haeringer, Frank Heiland, Armen Hovakimian, Larry Huckins, Yehuda Izhakian, Theodore Joyce, Mitchell Kellman, Armen Khederlarian, Yehuda Klein, Norman Kleinberg, Sanders Korenman, Paul Krugman, Barry Kai-Fai Ma, Lilia Maliar, Sebastiano Manzan, Kenneth McLaughlin, Matthew Nagler, Joan Nix, Ingmar Nyman, June O'Neill, Francesc Ortega, Francisco Penaranda, Lin Peng, Jonathan Peters, Stefan Pitschner, Sangeeta Pratap, Nahata Rajarishi, Dahlia Remler, Nuria Rodriguez-Planas, Jennifer Roff, Henry Saffer, Robert Schwartz, Yochanan Shachmurove, Kameshwari Shankar, Kevin Shih, Chanoch Shreiber, Suleyman Taspinar, Thom Thurston, Merih Uctum, George Vachadze, Jessica Van Parys, Wim Vijverberg, Alexandru Voicu, Chun Wang, Tao Wang, Bryan Weber, Simone Wegge, Mark White, Liuren Wu, Zhun Xu

THE PROGRAM

The Ph.D. Program in Economics is designed to educate researchers and teachers who will contribute to the development and application of knowledge in economics. The program emphasizes the development of research skills and the acquisition of in-depth knowledge in specialized fields of students’ choice. Students completing the program are prepared for careers in universities, government, consulting firms, and business enterprises. The program is relatively small and provides students accessibility to the faculty and a large measure of personal attention. Opportunities for supervised independent research, interdisciplinary study, and work in research centers are provided on an individual basis. Some of these opportunities are located at the New York office of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) where several members of the doctoral faculty have affiliations. Opportunities for supervised independent research, interdisciplinary study, and work in research centers are provided on an individual basis.

Students may pursue advanced work in the following major fields:

Public Economics (including subfields of Urban Economics and Public Finance)

International Economics (including subfields of International Trade, International Macroeconomics and Finance, and Economic Development)

Economics of Human Resources (including subfields of Labor, Human Resources, and Health Economics)

Financial Economics (including subfields of Corporate Finance and Investments)

Macro and Monetary Economics Theory and Policy (including Advanced Macroeconomics and Monetary Theory)

Industrial Organization (including subfields of Market Structure, Antitrust Policy, and Innovation and Research and Development)

Additional fields may be permitted with the approval of the Executive Officer. Doctoral work in economics is offered at the Graduate Center.

En-route M.A.

Upon completing 40 credits with an average grade of B or better and a capstone project, the student will be qualified to apply for an en-route M.A. degree.