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Upcoming Events

Winter Recognition Ceremony

Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom in UMC • When: Saturday, December 13, 2025 from 9 a.m.–Noon.
Doors open for seating at 9 a.m. Ceremony begins at 9:15 a.m. Reception to follow ceremony in same location.����

Social Sciences (SSCI) will be hosting the Winter Recognition Ceremony this year for SSCI graduates. The division ceremony is open to all graduates from the departments of Anthropology, Economics, Ethnic Studies, International Affairs, Linguistics, Political Science, Sociology, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, and Women and Gender Studies.��Contact: Layne Lewis.

Spring��Classes

Spring classes begin Thursday, January 8. 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.

2025–26 Seminar Series

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.

Announcements

Main Office

The main office, ECON 212,��is open 8:00��a.m.–Noon and 1–5��p.m. Monday through Friday except when noted for holiday closures. 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

• Chloe East cited in "" in The Atlantic
• 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 ������ý���� 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)
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