For economics major and Honors College student Wonder Ahiatsi, the timing of UMass Lowell’s new B.S. in Quantitative Economics couldn’t have been better. Ahiatsi was studying economics and advanced ...

The Department of Economics at the Farmer School of Business provides a unified framework to think about choices, their consequences, and the ability of policymakers to change outcomes. Although our ...

My work as an economist has made me intimately familiar with uncertainty. I use dynamic models and explore the impacts of uncertainty in a variety of settings. I use tools from statistics and decision ...

We argue that deep learning provides a promising avenue for taming the curse of dimensionality in quantitative economics. We begin by exploring the unique challenges posed by solving dynamic ...

This post was updated Nov. 7 at 12:20 a.m. Economics has arrived to South Campus. Economics and business economics majors have been reclassified as STEM majors, according to an email sent to students ...

Economics is a science that deals with the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy competing ends. It deals with choices that individuals, corporations, investors and governments make to maximize ...

Economics — one of the most popular majors at Brandeis — provides a lens through which we can better understand and improve our world. Economics is the study of human choice and economic behavior. It ...

Some economics departments are changing the formal classification of their programs so that international students have more opportunities to work in the U.S. after they graduate. It may seem like the ...

The role of physicists in finance is changing, as quantitative trading opens an exciting alternative to traditional financial modelling, and data science lures would-be 'quants' away. But the void is ...

Most U.S. college graduates start to worry about finding work even before they put on a gown, take the stage and receive their degrees. But for international students on F-1 student visas, securing ...

International students majoring in economics are now eligible to stay an extra two years in the United States after graduation. The change follows approval of the economics department’s request to ...