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Takeshi Amemiya, the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics, emeritus, at Stanford University, died at his campus home on February 24, 2026. He was 90. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Amemiya earned his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1964. He joined

Adrien Auclert is the recipient of the inugural recipient of the Janet Yellen Award for Monetary Research. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has created this new award to honor an early-career scholar for significant, policy-relevant

The Department of Economics provides majors with more flexibility in their pathways to a degree. The department is also offering certificates in four areas of focus: business economics, data science, environmental economics, and finance.

Arun Chandrasekhar received the Infosys Prize 2024 in Economics for his research on the impacts of networks on economic interactions in developing economies. The Infosys Science Foundation awards the annual Infosys Prize to accomplished researchers

Adrien Bilal is one of four recipients of the 2024 Excellence Awards in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Matthew Jackson explains the flaws of the global supply chain and what could be done.

A record 59 Stanford students and alumni athletes competed in the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Stanford Economics was represented by three Olympians and produced one medal: Ben Hallock '20 (USA Men's Water Polo, bronze medal) Alberto Mestre '21

Advanced Lecturers Christopher Makler received the 2024 Economics Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, and Scott McKeon received the 2023-2024 Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching Award.

The University of Zurich awarded B. Douglas Bernheim an honorary doctorate. Bernheim gave a public lecture for the special occasion.