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General NewsApril 2, 2008: Robert (Bob) Barbera and Barclay Knapp are named Fellows of the Department of Economics and the Center for Financial Economics. Both are Hopkins alumni who, in recent years, have played an integral role in the undergraduate economics program. They have taught courses with great success and brought a unique applied perspective to the training of our undergraduate economic majors. In recognition of their contribution and commitment to the economics program, the Faculty of the Department of Economics has named them Fellows. March 26, 2008: Edi Karni is named the Scott and Barbara Black Professor of Economics. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, Edi is one of the leading decision theorists in the world. Continuing a long record of important contributions in decision making under uncertainty, he has most recently made a major advance in the foundations of Bayesian decision theory. Upon learning of the awarding of the chair, Peyton Young - who is Black Professor of Economics Emeritus (and currently the James Meade Professor of Economics at Oxford) - commented: "During my years at Hopkins, Edi was an exceptionally stimulating colleague who is clearly a theorist of the first rank. It is a fitting tribute that he is the new holder of the Black Chair." We congratulate our colleague Edi Karni and express our continued appreciation to Scott and Barbara Black for their generosity and foresight in supporting research and teaching in economics at Hopkins. March 4, 2008: In honor of Lou Maccini's contributions to scholarship, teaching, and the creation of the Center for Financial Economics, Hopkins alumnus Charles Clarvit endowed the Louis J. Maccini Professorship. This is the second endowed chair attached to the Center for Financial Economics. November 9, 2007: At the party to honor Dr. Louis J. Maccini and thank him for his 15 years of service as department chairman, Dr. Carl Christ recited a limerick that he wrote for the occasion. The limerick reads:
October 31, 2007: Professor Jon Faust has been appointed as the inaugural director of the new Center for Financial Economics at the Johns Hopkins University. October 2007: This year's Richard Ely Distinguished Lectures will be given by Professor Tim Besley during the week of April 14-18, 2008. Prof. Besley is the Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics. He will give several lectures on the political economy of property rights and, as he is an external member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, will give a talk on his experiences on the Monetary Policy Committee and discuss current issues in monetary policy. September 2007: "Collusive Game Solutions via Optimization" - a paper co-authored by Joe Harrington with Ben Hobbs, Jong-Shi Pang, Andrew Liu, and Grant Roch - received the 2007 Best Publication Award by the Energy, Natural Resources and Environment Section of INFORMS. July 2007: New Faculty Appointments May 2007: Joseph Harrington gave a keynote lecture entitled "The Design, Practice, and Performance of Corporate Leniency Programs" at the Conference of the Research Network on Innovation and Competition Policy in Mannheim, Germany. April 2007: Albert "Pete" Kyle presented the Ely Lectures. March 2007: Jon Faust gave the Norges Bank Lecture in Oslo, Norway on "Inflation Targeting: Why is it wonderful? Why might it fail?" Awarded Grants
June 2007 - Caroline Fohlin - National Science Foundation (SES-0725007) "Innovation and Organizational Change in Venture Capital since World War II". |