Photos of Current Events in the Economics Department

MIT Economics 2009 Ph.D. recipients.  From left, David Powell, Eric Weese, Tal Gross, Richard Hornbeck, Trang Nguyen, Maisy Wong, Florian Ederer, Ricardo Caballero, Christopher Smith, Tatiana Didier, Johannes Spinnewijn, Jesse Edgerton, Arthur Campbell, Suman Basu, Neil Bhutta, James Berry, and Joao Leao.

Jean Tirole, Paul Joskow, and Oliver Williamson at the May 2009 Conference celebrating Paul Joskow's contributions to Industrial Organization.

Nancy Rose, Oliver Williamson (Berkeley), Paul Joskow, Dr. Thomas Byrne, James Poterba, MIT President Susan Hockfield, Ricardo Caballero, SHASS Dean Deborah Fitzgerald and Mrs. Helen Pounds at the May 2009 gathering celebrating Paul Joskow's MIT Career.

Associate Head Glenn Ellison with Institute Professor Emeritus Robert Solow and Konrad Menzel, the 2009 winner of the Solow Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Research.

Robert Hall (Ph.D. '67), President-Elect of the American Economic Association, and Avinash Dixit (Ph.D. '68), Past-President, at the AEA Annual Meetings in San Francisco, January 2009.

Professor Amy Finkelstein receives the 2008 Elaine Bennett Prize from Stanford GSB Professor Kathryn Shaw at a ceremony sponsored by the Committee on the Status of
Women in Economics, January 2009.

Harvard Professor N. Gregory Mankiw (Ph.D. '84), moderator Jim Poterba, and Institute Professor Emeritus Robert Solow at November 13 Panel Discussion on 'Economic Policy for the New Administration'.

Ricardo Caballero hosts a discussion of the unfolding financial crisis with George Soros, October 2008.

William Wheaton, Sloan Professor Andrew Lo, Ricardo Caballero, Bengt Holmstrom, and James Poterba during MIT Economics Panel Discussion on the Global Financial Crisis, October 2008.

 Hon. George Shultz  (Ph.D. '49) and Robert Solow following Shultz' MIT Energy Initiative Lecture, October 2008.