Welcome to the Department of Economics
Economics at Northeastern focuses on the application of economics to real-world problems of policy and business.
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![Spring 2023 Undergraduate Electives and Selected Topics Courses]()
Spring 2023 Undergraduate Electives and Selected Topics Courses
11.15.2022 -
![Professor Bilge Erten presents at Conference on Women's Safety and Financial Security]()
Professor Bilge Erten presents at Conference on Women’s Safety and Financial Security
10.24.2022 -
![plastics]()
The selective accounting behind the plastic industry’s climate-friendly claims
10.21.2022 -
Silvia Prina appointed IZA Research Fellow
10.04.2022 -
![Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Steve Kadish, Baker’s former chief of staff, speak about the nonpartisan framework they created to tackle some of the state’s most complex policy problems as part of Northeastern’s Civic Experience with Professor Alicia Modestino as moderator on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022 in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Center. Former Massachusetts speaker and current University Fellow for Public Life Robert DeLeo gives introductory remarks.]()
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker talks new book, the ‘how’ of government, at Northeastern
09.22.2022 -
![Welcome New Faculty for 2022-2023]()
Welcome New Faculty for 2022-2023
08.22.2022 -
![Motorists stop for fuel at gas stations in Detroit, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. As Congress and now the Supreme Court stymie the Biden administration’s efforts to curb climate change, one thing the president doesn’t want - sky high gas prices - actually is nibbling away at emissions of heat-trapping gas.]()
What is greedflation – and is it driving higher prices?
08.03.2022 -
![FILE – Gas prices are displayed at a Sunoco gas station along the Ohio Turnpike near Youngstown, Ohio, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Thanks largely to falling gas prices, the government’s inflation report for July, to be released Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, will probably show that prices jumped 8.7% from a year earlier, according to a survey of economists by data provider FactSet.]()
Inflation eases for July, but U.S. ‘not out of the woods’ yet
08.10.2022 -
Opinion: Without more immigrants, Social Security (and America) is toast – MarketWatch
09.08.2022 -
![Recent faculty publications]()
Recent faculty publications
10.29.2022 -
![Robert Triest: On Inflation]()
Robert Triest: On Inflation
06.06.2022 -
![Madhavi Venkatesan: On Sustainability]()
Madhavi Venkatesan: On Sustainability
06.06.2022 -
![Alicia Sasser Modestino: On employment]()
Alicia Sasser Modestino: On employment
05.27.2022
Administrative Contacts
The office is located in 301 Lake Hall and open Monday – Friday, 9-5.
Robert Triest, Chair (617-373-7852)
Cheryl Fonville, Administrative Officer (617-373-2872)
Kathleen Downey: Marketing Assistant (617-373-2887)
Katie Thorp: Administrative Assistant (617-373-2882)
Academic Program Directors
MS Program
Jun Ma, MS Program Director
Aysen Tanyeri-Abur, MS Graduate Program Associate Director
PhD Program
Silvia Prina, PhD Program Director
Undergraduate Program
Gustavo Vicenti, Undergraduate Director
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