Each year, the SMU Faculty Senate recognizes several outstanding staff members across campus who make an incredible difference for faculty. This year, Economic Department Advisor Alyssa Wong was presented with this honor. Alyssa was nominated by faculty in the department, and received her award during the Faculty Senate meeting on April 17th. Congratulations Alyssa! We’re so grateful you’re a member of our department.
Beth Wheaton-Paramo was be honored with the 2024 Caren Prothro Faculty Service Award at the Dedman College Faculty Meeting on May 6, 2024 The award is given annually to a full-time faculty member in Dedman College for a record of exceptional service to SMU and the DFW community. The 2024 Award is shared by Wheaton-Paramo and Professor Darryl Dickson-Carr, a faculty member in the English Department.
The Economics Department is hosting a symposium in honor of Kathy Hayes’ retirement after a long and productive career at SMU.
Featured Speakers include:
The event will be held on Wednesday, May 1st starting at 9:30 AM and end at noon.
Congratulation William Cunningham!
You did an awesome job on your research poster at the Research and & Innovation week event. Your economics’ family is extremely proud of you!
Please check out the winning poster, Graduate Research Poster (William Cunningham)
Nathan Balke, 2007 Dedman Family Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics, has agreed to serve as Dean ad interim of Dedman College effective June 1, 2024, until a permanent dean has been named.
Professor Balke has twice been department chair in Economics, from 2000 – 2006, and again from 2010 – 2013. He has also been a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas since 1994 and currently chairs the Faculty Senate’s All-University Finance Committee. His research areas are in macroeconomics and applied time series analysis, and he teaches courses in macroeconomics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Nathan brings a wealth of experience to this position, and we are so proud he will be serving as interim Dean!
Congratulations Dr. Manum!
https://www.longwood.edu/news/2024/khawaja-mamun-will-lead-business-and-economics/
Professor Santanu Roy’s recent paper, co-authored with Ayca Kaya, is forthcoming in the American Economic Review. Their paper “Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure” introduces a framework whereby market structure and rent play critical roles in determining whether reliable records of past trading volumes in markets improve efficiency.
The American Economic Review is the flagship journal of the American Economic Association and is one of the most prestigious in the discipline. Congratulations to Professor Roy!
Dr. Ahlberg has been nominated for the 2024 HOPE Award. HOPE stands for Honoring Our Professor’s Excellence and is the highest recognition a student can bestow on a faculty member.
Residence Life and Student Housing believes that it is important to highlight those professors who have gone above and beyond in their role. The HOPE Banquet is an opportunity each spring for students from all residential communities to celebrate faculty excellence and involvement in the student experience at SMU.
Beth Wheaton-Paramo, team lead for the SMU Human Trafficking Data Research (HTDR) Program, and her colleagues have published a paper in Empirical Economics this month.
Using data housed in the newly created SMU Human Trafficking Data Warehouse, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Southern Methodist University and University College Dublin used count time series regression modeling to explain the effects of economic factors on the counts on federal sex trafficking-related convictions in the U.S. This adds to the growing body of research being done within the SMU Human Trafficking Data Research (HTDR) Project.
