About the Department
Mission Statement
Our mission is to achieve and to sustain excellence in research and teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are a neoclassical economics department committed to rigorous theoretical and quantitative analysis in teaching and research. Members of our department have specialties in the areas of micro and macro theory, econometrics, labor, monetary, international, and environmental economics.
Research
Our research mission is to perform frontier research that advances our knowledge in both theoretical and applied economics, and to disseminate that knowledge mainly through publication in prominent peer-reviewed journals. Guided by the University's long-standing commitment to the Catholic social tradition, we stress policy-relevant research that contributes to important debates on economic, social, and political problems facing humanity.
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Graduate Education
Our mission in graduate education is to train the next generation of scholars in economics. To fulfill this mission, the graduate program will be designed to prepare Ph.D.s for research and teaching careers in academic institutions, for positions in government, non-government organizations, international agencies, and the private sector. Students will be trained in modern theoretical and quantitative methods as well as methods for communicating their knowledge to the profession and the public.
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Undergraduate Education
Our mission is to teach students to think clearly and critically about the world using the economics paradigm, to equip students with the necessary tools to participate in important public debates on economic, social, and political issues, and to be able to pursue lifelong learning opportunities.