The UCSC Economics Department is ranked highly in research productivity. The department’s research excellence is focused in three broadly overlapping areas and six specific fields: (1) international economics (international finance, international trade and development), (2) macroeconomics (macro/money and international finance), and (3) empirical microeconomics (public-labor economics, experimental/behavioral economics, international trade, and micro development). These areas remain central to the department’s strategic vision and form the base for our Ph.D. program. Unifying all of the research fields and Ph.D. training is the emphasis on the use of cutting-edge empirical methodology beyond just econometrics. This includes the common use of randomized control experiments, lab experiments, quasi-experimental approaches, computational and simulation methods, big data techniques, and new and innovative administrative data in our research.
There are 345 publications in this collection, published between 1980 and 2024.
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