Faculty Bios

Drawing on the world-class expertise of Penn's Department of Economics, the Master of Applied Economics and Data Science (MEDS) lecturers include active researchers and seasoned economists who deliver high-quality instruction and advanced knowledge—often at the very frontier of economics.

Directors

Francis X. Diebold, MEDS Faculty Director
Francis X. Diebold, MEDS Faculty Director

Paul F. and Warren S. Miller Professor of Economics
Professor of Finance
Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Applied econometrics and dynamic predictive modeling; Statistical machine learning; Financial market volatility; Business cycle and macroeconomic monitoring; Empirical network modeling; Climate change

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Representative core faculty

Karun Adusumilli
Karun Adusumilli

Assistant Professor of Economics

Causal inference; Missing data; Dynamic treatment allocation; statistical machine learning

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Aislinn Bohren
Aislinn Bohren

Associate Professor of Economics

Microeconomics; Dynamic learning; Information aggregation; Model misspecification; Randomized experiments

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Harold L. Cole
Harold L. Cole

James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Economics
Professor of Finance

Monetary and fiscal policy; Severe recessions; Firm financial structure; Portfolio behavior; International finance and sovereign default

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David Dillenberger
David Dillenberger

Professor of Economics

Economics of decisions; Economics of risk and time; Social preferences

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Hanming Fang
Hanming Fang

Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics
Professor of Health Care Management
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

Applied microeconomics; Public finance; Discrimination; Insurance markets; Health care

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Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics

Applied macroeconomics and econometrics; Computation and estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models

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Dirk Krueger
Dirk Krueger

Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of Economics
Professor of Finance

Macroeconomics of risk sharing across households (labor income risks, health risks, disability risks, mortality risks, etc.); Public finance; Labor economics; Computation

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Aviv Nevo
Aviv Nevo

George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor
Professor of Marketing

Empirical Industrial Organization; Marketing; Antitrust and competition economics; Econometrics of demand estimation; Health economics; Telecom economics; Real estate economics

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Frank Schorfheide
Frank Schorfheide

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Economics

Econometric model evaluation and selection; Misspecification; Tools for empirical work with macroeconomic models; Forecasting; Policy analysis; Business cycles; Monetary policy

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Petra Todd
Petra Todd

Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Economics

Social program evaluation; Labor economics; Microeconometrics

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Rakesh Vohra
Rakesh Vohra

George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor
(Department of Economics and Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering)
Professor of Computer and Information Sciences

Mechanism design and game theory at the interface of economics, engineering, and computer science; Operations research; Market systems; Optimal pricing

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