Faculty News

  • Economics Seminar Series presents Nicolas Ziebarth, Cornell University
    9/8/25
    Presentation title: "The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior"
  • Economics Seminar Series presents Ori Heffetz, Cornell University
    9/8/25
    Presentation title: "Are Reference Points (Merely) Lagged Beliefs Over Probabilities?"
  • Prof. Liu appointed director of UB Confucius Institute
    9/8/25
    Zhiqiang Liu, associate professor of economics at the University at Buffalo, has been named director of the University at Buffalo Confucius Institute (UBCI).
  • Human Capital 3E has received full funding
    9/8/25
    The Human Capital 3E project, in operation for the past three years in the Department of Economics, received approval for permanent funding from the University at Buffalo administration. The project will continue to involve research and programmatic collaboration between our department and Educational Leadership and Policy in the Graduate School of Education, as well as allow us to pursue additional partnerships with the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Prof. Anas presented with the 2016 Walter Isard Award
    9/8/25
    This award is named in honor of Professor Walter Isard, father of Regional Science, founder of the Regional Science Association, and a leading scholar in the worldwide Regional Science community.
  • Prof. Ehrlich's service on the NAS results in published draft report on the Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration
    9/8/25
    More than 40 million people living in the United States were born in other countries, and almost an equal number have at least one foreign-born parent. Together, the first generation (foreign-born) and second generation (children of the foreign-born) comprise almost one in four Americans.
  • Prof. Ehrlich gave speech to the Higher School of Economics in Russia
    9/8/25
    Prof. Ehrlich spoke during a "Meet the Editors" session, and also delivered a keynote speech on “Why Nations Succeed? – A Case Study in Endogenous Growth Theory” at the conference.