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Andrés Rodríguez-Clare Delivers 2026 Graham Lecture
Each year, Princeton IES invites a member of the international economics community to deliver the prestigious Graham Lecture.
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Course Spotlight: ECO 316
Learn more about ECO 316: Economic Lessons from the World of Sports with Professor Gene Grossman. In the fall semester of 2025, this course included lectures from four former Princeton athletes, now luminaries in the world of sports.
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Mae Castro Joins IES
The International Economics Section welcomes Mae Castro as its new administrator.
Faculty News
Conference in Honor of Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
In honor of Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and his 70th birthday, the Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics held a conference celebrating his impressive career.
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Markus Brunnermeier wins the 2025 Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award
The award is presented each year to the authors of the best paper submitted the prior year.
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Princeton Economics Professor & Student Help Develop New Tool for Monitoring Supply Chain Disruptions
Princeton Professor Ernest Liu and Econ major Astor Lu are among a team of economists who developed a new tool for monitoring supply chain disruptions. This tool, the Blue Center Index of Critical Supply Chain Disruptions, launched on April 23, 2025.
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Mark Walker awarded 2025 Avinash K. Dixit Prize in International Economics
The prize is awarded annually to third-year Princeton graduate students who have excelled in their early studies of international trade or international macroeconomics.
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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas Delivers 2025 Graham Lecture
Each year, Princeton IES invites a member of the international economics community to deliver the prestigious Graham Lecture.
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2024-2025 postdoctoral research associates and research fellows
As we move into the academic year, the Economics Department is welcoming more than a dozen postdoctoral research scholars and fellows to campus.
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Marc Melitz Delivers 2024 Graham Lecture
The Graham Lecture, hosted by Princeton's International Economics Section, was established in 1949 to honor Princeton professor Frank Graham.
Ph.D. Student News
Xiang Zhang awarded 2024 Avinash K. Dixit Prize in International Economics
The International Economics Section (IES) at Princeton congratulates Xiang Zhang for winning the 2024 Avinash K. Dixit Prize in International Economics.
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Ernest Liu awarded NSF CAREER Award to study economic networks
The award will support his research on how interconnected networks of companies, industries, technologies, and countries affect economic growth, capital flows, and industrial policy.
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Ernest Liu Awarded 2023 Kiel Institute Excellence Award
Liu was recognized for his research in networks, trade, and industrial policy.
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Alumni Conversations: Gene Grossman and MIT’s David Atkin
In the first episode of our Alumni Conversations series, Professor Gene Grossman talks to his former student David Atkin (Ph.D. 2009). Atkin is now a Professor of Economics at MIT.
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A Joyous Gathering to Celebrate Gene Grossman’s Many Contributions to International Economics
On October 7, 2022, around one hundred friends and colleagues came together to celebrate the accomplishments and mentorship of Princeton Professor Gene Grossman.
Student News
Elena Aguilar and Alejandro Sabal Bermúdez awarded Avinash K. Dixit Prize in International Economics
The prize is awarded annually to third-year Princeton graduate students who have excelled in their early studies of international trade or international macroeconomics.
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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Delivers 2022 Graham Lecture
Each year, Princeton IES invites a member of the international economics community to deliver the prestigious Graham Lecture.
