Welcome to Fall 2024

In Fall 2024, the department is pleased to welcome six new faculty, six faculty tenure promotions, nine new graduate students, 500+ returning undergraduate students with an Economics major or minor. 

Jillian Grennan, Assistant Professor 

Areas of Interest: Corporate Culture, Financial Economics, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Law and Economics, Organizational Economics

Matthew Grannan, Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Empirical industrial organization, Health care, Innovation, Competitive Strategy

Florian Gunsilius, Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Nonparametric approaches for statistical identification, estimation, and inference. Statistical optimal transport theory, mean field estimation, causal inference, and free discontinuity problems.

Alexis Akira Toda, Professor

Areas of Interest: Macro-finance, Asset price bubbles, Power law in Economics and Finance, Mathematical Economics, Computational Economics

Xue (Yuki) Wang, Assistant Teaching Professor

Areas of Interest: Econometric Models, International Trade and Finance, Networks in Financial Markets

Samuel Wunderly, Assistant Teaching Professor

Areas of Interest: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Game Theory

Kaiji Chen, Professor

Areas of Interest: Macroeconomic Implications of Financial Contracts, Business Cycles, Social Security, Consumption and Savings

Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim, Professor

Areas of Interest: Internet Economics, Microeconomic Theory

Elena Pesavento, Professor

Areas of Interest: Time Series Analysis and Econometrics, Evaluation and Comparison of Cointegration Tests, Impulse Response Functions for VAR with Local to Unity Roots, Modeling of Real Exchange Rates of the PPP Theory, Inventories and Output Fluctuations

Krzysztof (Chris) Karbownik, Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Economics of Health Sciences, Applied Microeconomics

Nelson Lind, Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Financial Crises, Trade, Identification in Dynamic Models

Paloma Lopez de mesa Moyano, Associate Teaching Professor

Areas of Interest: Economics of Education, Health Economics

Congratulations and welcome to our second Economics 4+1 Program cohort! We have a total of 18 students taking on this wonderful opportunity. Follow their 4+1 journey through our social media pages.

We welcome the Class of 2028 to Emory! In total, Emory admitted 5,058 students with 3,453 applicants offered admission to Emory College and 2,792 offered admission to Oxford College. Of those numbers 1,187 were admitted to both colleges. The Economics Department looks forward to connecting with these new Emory students and invites them to consider Economics as part of their academic journey at Emory.