In 2011, Cornell took the extraordinary step of creating an expanded and improved Department of Economics, combining economics and labor economics faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Industrial & Labor Relations as well as a set of distinguished senior faculty from around campus.
The economics department offers the study of human behavior in many settings—at the household, market and aggregate levels. Economics is more than a set of questions, but rather is a mode of thought, a set of precise analytical tools that can be used to study a wide variety of social science problems. Students are introduced to these tools in the core methodology courses of Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics. With these tools in hand, students are then able to study a wide variety of topics including labor-market outcomes, the role of the banking sector, the economics of developing countries, international trade, the role of the public sector and of the political process, economic history and the study of health and education. In addition, students have the option for advanced methodological study in dynamic optimization, game theory and econometrics.
Associated Faculty
- John Abowd
- Matthew Baron
- Levon Barseghyan
- Panle J. Barwick
- Arnab K. Basu
- Kaushik Basu
- Marco Battaglini
- Gregory Besharov
- Garrick Blalock
- Robert Bloomfield
- Lawrence Blume
- Vicki Bogan
- Giulia Brancaccio
- Murillo Campello
- Colleen Carey
- Nancy Chau
- Yi Chen
- Stephen Coate
- Will Cong
- Jon Conrad
- Jamein Cunningham
- Tommaso Denti
- David Easley
- Geoffrey Fisher
- Maria Fitzpatrick
- Rick Geddes
- Miguel I. Gómez
- Yaniv Grinstein
- Ori Heffetz
- John Hoddinott
- Yongmiao Hong
- Ming Huang
- Christopher Huckfeldt
- Robert Hutchens
- George Jakubson
- Justin Johnson
- Thomas Jungbauer
- David Just
- Vrinda Kadiyali
- Lawrence Kahn
- Harry Kaiser
- Kengo Kato
- Shanjun Li
- Jura Liaukonyte
- Crocker Liu
- Michael Lovenheim
- Suraj Malladi
- Alan Mathios
- Doug McKee
- Douglas Miller
