A Toast To You!
In keeping with the Colorado seasons, spring at CSU is a time of reflection, celebration, and new growth. Across campus, we are celebrating not only our academic achievements but also the resilient spirit of our CSU community that worked to care for one another over the last year. We take moments to experience the joy of being back together on our beautiful, blooming campus, perhaps imagining the possibilities and promises of our next adventures: graduations, retirements, travel, new jobs or internships, time with family and friends. Whatever awaits you as this semester comes to a close, I hope it is filled with joy, health, and connection.
To our Economics graduates: it is the end of one season, but the next is just waiting to get started. You have done truly amazing things in your time here, and you will do a great many more. I could not be more proud of your success.
Cheers to you!
Dr. Elissa Braunstein
Department Celebrations
Professor Anita Alves Pena was awarded this year's CLA Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award. Congratulations, Dr. Pena!
Associate Professor Anders Fremstad was awarded the Keller Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Congratulations, Dr. Fremstad!
Professor Daniele Tavani was offered and has accepted a prestigious one-year residential fellowship at the Berggruen Institute at University of Southern California, where he will be working in the Future of Capitalism program for the 2022-23 academic year. Congratulations, Dr. Tavani!
Ph.D. candidate Michelan Wilson and Ph.D. student Débora Nunes were both named 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellows in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES)! Congratulations, Déb and Michelan!
The Economics Student Leadership Council (ESLC) has elected their leadership for 2022-2023. Congratulations to the following students serving on the executive board!
- President: Lauren Vilims
- Vice President: Jessica Laffey
- VP of Outreach: Aidan Knaus
- VP of Operations: Stephen Laffey
2022 Department Awards: Graduate
- Dissertation Fellowships: Michelan Wilson and Lackson Mudenda
- Graduate Research Assistantships: Sayorn Chin and Luke Maddock
- Outstanding Graduate Researcher: Angela Cindy Emefa Mensah
- Outstanding Graduate Teacher: Fatih Kırşanlı
- L.S. & Chuen-mei Fan Graduate Scholarship: Jeremy Garrison and Vinicius Cicero
- Terry Ozawa Graduate Economics Fellowship: Bhavya Sinha and Satyaki Dasgupta
- ΟΔΕ Best Graduate Paper Award: Paula-Leone Samuda
Read about this year's award winners here.
2022 Department Awards: Undergraduate
- Outstanding Economics Major: Arisa Thongngam
- Alok Mehta Scholarships: Osvaldo Cabrera-Campos and Juan Morales
- Ed A. Hewett Scholarships: Juan Morales and Edward Marshall
- Ben W. Garcia Scholarships: Michelle Malenfant and Aidan Knaus
- ΟΔΕ Outstanding Undergraduate Paper: Lauren Vilims
Read about this year's award winners here.
Omicron Delta Epsilon (ΟΔΕ) Spring 2022 Inductees
- Mariam Graoui
- Emily Hrovat
- Brian Silver
- Alina Trimble
Research Highlights
Edward Barbier, Economics for a Fragile Planet: Rethinking Markets, Institutions and Governance (Cambridge 2022)
Elissa Braunstein & Diksha Arora, “Mainstreaming Gender in National Policies: The Cases of Indonesia, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka," prepared for & published by the United Nations Center for Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Elissa Braunstein, "Gender and the Future of Industrialization in a Post-Pandemic World," prepared for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization [Classroom-friendly version]
Daniele Tavani & Luke Petach (Ph.D '19), “Aggregate Demand Externalities, Income Distribution, and Wealth Inequality,” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
Ramaa Vasudevan, “The Doom-Loop Redux: The Corporate Bond-Purchase Program and the Political Economy of the Fed’s Pandemic Response,” Review of Radical Political Economics
Ramaa Vasudevan & Arpan Ganguly (Ph.D. '20), “Financial Liberalization and the Indian Non-Financial, Corporate Sector,” Competition and Change
Ramaa Vasudevan, "Women's Self-Employment as a Developmental Strategy: The Dual Constraints of Care Work and Aggregate Demand," Feminist Economics
Edward Barbier, "The Policy Implications of the Dasgupta Review: Land Use Change and Biodiversity," Environmental and Resource Economics
Edward Barbier, "Legacies of Gusts, Bloods, and Floods: Long-Term Impacts of the 1970 Cyclone in Bangladesh," World Development
Ray Miller, "The Effect of Private Schools on Measures of Socioemotional Development in Adolescence: Evidence from India," Journal of Human Capital
Ray Miller & Ashish Sedai (Ph.D. '22), "Opportunity Costs of Unpaid Caregiving: Evidence from Panel Time Diaries," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Ashish Sedai (Ph.D. '22), “Are Autocracies Bad for the Environment? Global Evidence from Two Centuries of Data,” The Energy Journal.
Ph.D. candidate Fatih Kırşanlı, “Pakistan’s Political and Economic Crisis,” The Ayaan Institute
CLASS OF '22: STUDENT SHOWCASE
The Department of Economics is proud to highlight undergraduate and Ph.D. students from the graduating class of 2022. Explore our first annual Student Showcase to hear from our incredible students in their own words about their experiences at CSU – and what comes next!
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
Bob Kling Takes to the Sea
After 38 years of visionary teaching, research, and service at Colorado State University, Associate Professor Robert "Bob" Kling will retire from the Department of Economics this spring and once again serve as the Academic Dean aboard Semester at Sea.
In his tenure, Dr. Kling has served as chair, undergraduate program director, and graduate program director of the economics department; taught hundreds of sections of microeconomics courses; and advised dozens of doctoral dissertations. Dr. Kling was also instrumental in establishing CSU's partnership with the Foreign Trade University (FTU) in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2008, establishing a program by which thousands of Vietnamese scholars would learn economics from CSU faculty and nearly 200 students would come to Fort Collins to complete their degree on CSU campus.
Dr. Kling's presence in our department and lives will be sorely missed; though we wish him well on his many, many adventures to come.
Congratulations, Spring Class of 2022!
Ph.D. Economics
- Kit Deming
- Bryanna Dixon
- Ashish Sedai
- Sarah Small
M.A. Economics
- Angela Cindy Emefa Mensah
Economics Majors & Minors
- Spencer Ackerman
- AlMoather Al Busaidi
- Jawaher Al Maaini
- Dala Al-Mukhaini
- Sulayman Almutawa
- Nicholas AmRhein
- Matthew Bailey
- Alexander Baker-Carr
- Jake Barth
- Jamie Beck
- Max Bigford
- Reilly Blakeslee
- Uri Bonilla
- Anna Brooks
- Sam Bryan
- John Bull
- Hayden Carter
- John Castro
- Turner Chang
- Chris Charlett
- Yaojia Chen
- Hansa Chowdhury
- Marcus Cropley
- Paul DeCelles
- Ryan DeFilippi
- Macey Dodd
- Connor Doogan
- Chris Downs
- Joey Fedel
- Yohan Khor Fernando
- Thomas Filippo
- Mark Fisher
- Cameron Flinn
- Mark Frutig
- Blaine Gailitis
- Alec Gonzales
- Cole Goree
- Mariam Graoui
- Jordan Gress
- Zachary Hayes
- Max Hernandez
- Xenia Hernandez
- Tom Hodgkins
- Adam Hodgson
- Daniel Huggins
- Carson Hughes
- Jacob Janney
- Kaitlyn Jenkins
- DJ Johnson
- Lukas Klarich
- Aaron Kok
- David Kuharski
- Hans Kuhlmann
- Erik Kvietkus
- Carmen Lighthiser
- Matteo Lonardo
- Kyle Macdonald
- Henrique Magalhaes Rio
- Kennedy McCutcheon
- Julian Meier
- Nick Merandi
- Nic Miller
- Victor Montori
- Anh Nguyen
- Lynn Nguyen
- Connor Nopenz
- Grant Ogden
- Jessica Ozoude
- Wyatt Palmer
- Daniel Pena
- Hui Peng
- Caleb Posey
- Justin Rappa
- Devon Rebelez
- Estanislao Saenz
- Zane Schichtel
- Brian Silver
- Zane Smith
- Henry Storm
- Haoji Sun
- Mitch Tamez
- Arisa Thongngam
- Eli Townsend
- Shacresa Underwood
- Chirantha Uyanage
- Isaac Ward
- Dawson Warnken
- Madeline Watts
- Mike Workman
