Faculty News

  • Staff Spotlight - Taya Myree
    9/19/25
    Taya Myree is part of the amazing staff team that supports the Department of Economics.  As Office Assistant, Taya helps students enroll in courses, provides administrative support to faculty, and is available to answer any questions that you might have!  You can find her on the fourth floor in the main office helping to ensure that everything is working as it should!
  • Lakes Development Economics Workshop
    9/8/25
    The workshop consists of a small set of presentations on development economics topics. The workshop brings together a network of development economics scholars from Western New York, Southern Ontario, the Finger Lakes region, and surrounding areas. In contrast to larger conferences, we aim to devote a longer amount of time to a small set of presentations to promote discussion.
  • Lakes Development Economics Workshop
    3/10/25
    The workshop consists of a small set of presentations on development economics topics. The workshop brings together a network of development economics scholars from Western New York, Southern Ontario, the Finger Lakes region, and surrounding areas. In contrast to larger conferences, we aim to devote a longer amount of time to a small set of presentations to promote discussion.
  • Faculty Spotlight - Opinder Kaur
    9/23/25
    Professor Opinder Kaur is an applied microeconomist with research interests in labor economics, development economics, health economics, and the economics of education. She received her PhD from the University of California Riverside
  • Best & Worst States for Jobs - Ask the Expert interview - Joanne Song McLaughlin
    9/23/25
  • Adding more road capacity decreases congestion and increases distance traveled
    9/23/25
    Adding more road capacity decreases congestion and increases distance traveled
  • Prof. Anas wins the Richard J. Arnott Overall Best Paper Prize
    9/23/25
    The paper corrects a major misconception and misspecification of how traffic congestion affects aggregate distance traveled, arising from an empirical study by Gilles Duranton (University of Pennsylvania) and Matthew Turner (Brown) published in 2011 in the American Economic Review and gathering over 1000 citations.