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Economics and Finance Program

Professor Sanjaya DeSilva. Photo by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00
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The Bard Economics and Finance Program, established in the fall of 2007, is a five-year BS/BA dual-degree program.
Students receive both a BS degree in economics and finance and a BA degree in an academic program other than economics. The program is designed to meet the needs of students who wish to achieve a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences even as they prepare themselves for careers in the financial world.

Requirements

  • Degree Requirements
    The BS/BA program requires 160 credits; the student must fulfill all general educational requirements of the College’s BA program. The BS degree will not be awarded unless the student also receives the BA degree. However, a student may elect to step out of the program, continuing in the BA program. Hence, the dual-degree program is structured to allow all requirements for the BA to be met within four years. 
  • Course Requirements
    Candidates for the dual degree must complete 56 credits in economics and finance, comprising the core courses of the program: Principles of Economics; Foundations of Finance and Investments; Money and Banking; Intermediate Microeconomics; Mathematical Economics; Accounting; Industrial Organization; Introduction to Econometrics; Seminar in International Economics; Advanced Econometrics; Contemporary Developments in Finance; and Corporate Finance. Students are required to complete a Senior Project relating to finance.

Student Work

  • Recent Senior Projects in Economics and Finance
    • “The Closed-End Fund Paradox in Country Funds: A Conventional and Behavioral Perspective”
    • “Forecasting Error in the U.S. Social Security Administration’s Economic Assumptions”
    • “A Microdata Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap in South Korea”
    • “Testing the Predictive Power of Equity Valuation Metrics: A Minskyan Approach” 

Faculty

Program Director: Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
Phone: 845-758-7710
E-mail: [email protected]
Sanjaya DeSilva
Kris Feder
Liudmila Malyshava
Michael Martell
Aniruddha Mitra
Pavlina Tcherneva
Taun Toay
L. Randall Wray

News and Events

What Is Money?: Bard Economist L. Randall Wray Discusses How Money Works on the Podcast Something You Should Know

L. Randall Wray, professor of economics at Bard and senior scholar at the Levy Institute, speaks with Mike Carruthers on Something You Should Know about the definition of money and how it actually works. “We need to get away from this notion that money is something we can get our hands on,” Wray explains. “If you go back in time, most market activity as far back as we go took place on the basis of credit and debit. And really that is how we should look at money. Money is credit in your hands and it’s somebody’s debt.”

What Is Money?: Bard Economist L. Randall Wray Discusses How Money Works on the Podcast Something You Should Know

L. Randall Wray, professor of economics at Bard and senior scholar at the Levy Institute, speaks with Mike Carruthers on Something You Should Know about the definition of money and how it actually works. “We need to get away from this notion that money is something we can get our hands on,” Wray explains. “If you go back in time, most market activity as far back as we go took place on the basis of credit and debit. And really that is how we should look at money. Money is credit in your hands and it’s somebody’s debt.” Wray asserts that the Federal Reserve cannot run out of money. “Money is a keystroke credit to an account . . . As long as there is one person left at the Fed with one finger, they can keystroke some more credits . . . Can the government or the private sector spend too much and cause inflation, which will reduce the value of the money? Yes, that can happen.” Wray’s newest book Money for Beginners: An Illustrated Guide was published in May 2023. Professor Wray’s interview begins at 24:00.
Listen on Something You Should Know

Post Date: 05-31-2023

Three Bard College Students Win Gilman International Scholarships to Study Abroad

Three Bard College students—Zara Boss ’25, Chi-Chi Ezekwenna ’25, and Nita Vemuri ’24—have been awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the US Department of State. Gilman Scholars receive up to $5,000, or up to $8,000 if also a recipient of the Gilman Critical Need Language Award, to apply toward their study abroad or internship program costs. This cohort of Gilman scholars will study or intern in more than 80 countries and represents more than 520 US colleges and universities in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Three Bard College Students Win Gilman International Scholarships to Study Abroad

Three Bard College students have been awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the US Department of State. Gilman Scholars receive up to $5,000, or up to $8,000 if also a recipient of the Gilman Critical Need Language Award, to apply toward their study abroad or internship program costs. This cohort of Gilman scholars will study or intern in more than 80 countries and represents more than 520 US colleges and universities in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Dance major Zara Boss ’25, from Portland, Maine, has been awarded a $3,000 Gilman scholarship to study at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, via CIEE for spring 2024. Boss also received a $5,000 Freeman-ASIA award, which provides scholarships for US undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need to study abroad in East or Southeast Asia. “Being a Gilman scholarship recipient is an incredible honor, as it will allow my life-long aspiration of studying in Japan to come to fruition. I am very grateful for the opportunity to be immersed in the language and culture and am immensely looking forward to studying literature and dance in Tokyo this upcoming spring,” said Boss.
 
Historical Studies major Chi-Chi Ezekwenna ’25, from Bronx, New York, has been awarded a $3,000 Gilman scholarship to study at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea via tuition exchange from fall 2023 to spring 2024. “Receiving the Gilman scholarship has allowed for a dream that has been fostering since I was 12 years old to finally become a reality. I used to believe that the chance to visit Korea would only come much later down the road, yet I was positively proven wrong, as being a Gilman recipient has allowed me the chance to go during my college career,” said Ezekwenna.
 
Bard College Conservatory and Economics dual major Nita Vemuri ’24 has been awarded a $3,000 Gilman scholarship to study in Paris, France for summer 2023. “I am beyond thrilled to learn more about French music and its relationship to the French language in Paris with the help of the Gilman scholarship,” said Vemuri.
 
Since the program’s inception in 2001, more than 38,000 Gilman Scholars from all US states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other US territories have studied or interned in more than 160 countries around the globe. The Department of State awarded more than 3,600 Gilman scholarships during the 2022-2023 academic year.
 
As Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, “People-to-people exchanges bring our world closer together and convey the best of America to the world, especially to its young people.”
 
The late Congressman Gilman, for whom the scholarship is named, served in the House of Representatives for 30 years and chaired the House Foreign Relations Committee. When honored with the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Medal in 2002, he said, “Living and learning in a vastly different environment of another nation not only exposes our students to alternate views but adds an enriching social and cultural experience. It also provides our students with the opportunity to return home with a deeper understanding of their place in the world, encouraging them to be a contributor, rather than a spectator in the international community.”
 
The Gilman Program is sponsored by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and is supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education (IIE). To learn more, visit: gilmanscholarship.org


Post Date: 05-23-2023

Youssef Ait Benasser Joins Bard College Faculty as Assistant Professor of Economics in the Division of Social Studies

Bard College’s Division of Social Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Youssef Ait Benasser as Assistant Professor of Economics beginning in the fall of the 2023–24 academic year. “Bard’s global engagement provides the ideal environment for my work in international economics,” said Benasser. “I am excited to contribute to the disruptive research and support the transformative learning that sets Bard’s community apart in the social sciences and beyond.”

Youssef Ait Benasser Joins Bard College Faculty as Assistant Professor of Economics in the Division of Social Studies

Bard College’s Division of Social Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Youssef Ait Benasser as Assistant Professor of Economics. Their tenure-track appointment will begin in the fall of the 2023–24 academic year.

“Bard’s global engagement provides the ideal environment for my work in international economics,” said Benasser. “I am excited to contribute to the disruptive research and support the transformative learning that sets Bard’s community apart in the social sciences and beyond.”

Born in Rabat, Morocco, Youssef A. Benasser (they/he) received a BA in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and an MSc in Economics and Public Policy from Ecole Polytechnique (X), before completing their PhD in Economics at the University of Oregon. Their research agenda is influenced by decolonial critics of the Bretton-Wood international economic system and inspired by the Third World’s quest for an alternative economic project. It centers on empirical assessments of recent trends in international trade policy, such as policy uncertainty, reversals, or rivalries, and their impacts on the global flow of goods and money. Passionate about teaching and pedagogy, Dr. Benasser has taught in higher ed institutions for more than seven years. Their courses span macro and international economics at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels. Dr. Benasser also has a risk analysis background, having previously held positions in the financial and government sectors.

Post Date: 03-02-2023
More Economics News
  • Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva Interviewed on Background Briefing with Ian Masters

    Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva Interviewed on Background Briefing with Ian Masters

    Ian Masters spoke with Pavlina Tcherneva, associate professor of economics at Bard College, research associate at the Levy Economics Institute, and author of The Case for a Job Guarantee (2020), on his nationally syndicated radio program Background Briefing. In the episode, “As Pundits Warn of Recession and Inflation, We Get the Best Economic News Since 1969,” Masters asks Tcherneva for her take on the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, which added 517,000 jobs in January 2023 and stunned most economists and people who continue to harbor a doomsday mentality about the economy.

    According to Tcherneva, two years after the COVID-induced crisis, such good news about low unemployment levels tells us that “public policy has tools. It can act boldly, quickly and bring jobs back.” She points out, however, that these low unemployment numbers also reflect the 5.7 million people who are not looking for work, and 4 million people who are working part-time but would like to have full-time jobs.

    “Part of the anxiety still being experienced in the labor market is that the jobs are there but they are not exactly these well-paying jobs with very good benefits and good working conditions. On that front, there is more to be accomplished. Let us remember our minimum wage is still $7.25, and no one can live on $7.25 an hour,” she asserts.

    Tcherneva sees the big fiscal policies implemented over the last two years by the Biden administration, which do not overly focus on the financial sector or prioritize tax cuts for the wealthy, as all good news. Still, she advocates for more economic progress. “The question for me is did we come out of the pandemic with better jobs, better conditions for working families than we had going into the pandemic?”
    Listen on Background Briefing

    Post Date: 02-14-2023
  • Professor Pavlina Tcherneva Helps Chart a Path for Job Guarantee Program in Colombia

    Professor Pavlina Tcherneva Helps Chart a Path for Job Guarantee Program in Colombia

    Pavlina Tcherneva, associate professor of economics at Bard College, research associate at Bard’s Levy Economics Institute, and director of the Open Society University Network's Economic Democracy Initiative, recently met with government officials in Bogotá, Colombia, to present her proposal for a national job guarantee program. At the invitation of Vice Minister of Finance Diego Guevara, Professor Tcherneva met with five government divisions: the ministries of energy, development, finance, and culture, and the SAE (Sociedad de Activos Especiales, or Special Assets Society), which administers seized assets of narcotics traffickers in the country.

    “The job guarantee is an economic policy that provides public employment opportunities on demand to anyone seeking decent, living-wage work,” Tcherneva says. “It is a structural stabilization policy that alleviates the economic, social, and political costs of unemployment and precarious employment. It is equity-driven and draws on a long tradition of human rights and social justice.” Governments all over the world have implemented policies that provide some level of job guarantee, though none have a truly universal job guarantee program. One example in U.S. history is the Works Progress Administration. Part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the agency employed millions of Americans on a wide range of public works projects during the Great Depression.
    Bard College Professor Pavlina Tcherneva
    Bard College Professor Pavlina Tcherneva

    During Tcherneva’s meetings in Bogotá, Colombian officials proposed to draft pilot public employment projects to further the work of each ministry. SAE, for example, discussed various ways in which the assets of the agency could support the creation of local employment and strengthen the work of grassroots and community organizations. These pilots would also support the public employment component of the national development plan, which President Gustavo Petro will present before the Colombian Congress in May.

    “I was inspired by SAE's employment-centered, social inclusion approach to the management of seized assets,” Tcherneva notes. “In much of my policy work, I am asked to explain the innovative aspects of the job guarantee proposal. In Colombia, I had to do very little of that. Instead, I met with policy makers who were not only receptive but were already thinking about how to make it happen.”

    During her stay in Colombia, Professor Tcherneva also delivered one of the two opening keynotes at the Third Annual Conference on Heterodox Economics at the National University of Colombia. Her talk was titled “The Role of Women in Heterodox Economics.”

    Pavlina Tcherneva is a macroeconomist specializing in modern money theory and public policy, with a focus on fiscal and monetary policy coordination, full employment policies, and their impact on macroeconomic stability, unemployment, income distribution, and gender. Her book The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity, 2020) was named one of the Financial Times best economics books of 2020 and has been published in eight languages. Her first book, Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey (coedited with M. Forstater), is a rare collection of the lesser-known works by Nobel Prize–winning economist William Vickrey and reinterprets his proposals for the modern day. Tcherneva holds a BA in mathematics and economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Gettysburg College and an MA and PhD in economics from the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She is an expert at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and, formerly, a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy in the United Kingdom.
    Bard College Professor Pavlina Tcherneva meets with and SAE Director Daniel Rojas Medellin. Photo courtesy& Sociedad de Activos Especiales, Colombia.
    Bard College Professor Pavlina Tcherneva meets with and SAE Director Daniel Rojas Medellin. Photo courtesy Sociedad de Activos Especiales, Colombia.


    Post Date: 12-13-2022
  • Bard Economist L. Randall Wray Wins 2022 Veblen-Commons Award in Recognition of Significant Contributions to Evolutionary Institutional Economics

    Bard Economist L. Randall Wray Wins 2022 Veblen-Commons Award in Recognition of Significant Contributions to Evolutionary Institutional Economics

    L. Randall Wray, professor of economics and senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, has won the 2022 Veblen-Commons Award. This award is the highest honor given annually by the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) in recognition of significant contributions to evolutionary institutional economics. Named after the founders of institutional economics, Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) and John R. Commons (1862–1945), and awarded since 1969, the Veblen-Commons Award is presented to scholars “on the basis of their contributions to a better understanding of both the economic process and the behavior of the major institutions that shape that process and society’s goals and values” (Trebing, 1992, 333). By recognizing significant contributions to institutional analysis, this award furthers the goal of institutional economics to make the world a better place.

    Recipients of the Veblen-Commons Award have made outstanding contributions to institutional economics in the tradition of Veblen and Commons. Award recipients have focused their work on some of the most important topics confronting human society. Such topics include exploring the underlying power relations within society, the origins and implications of inequality, feminist economics, the origins of discrimination, the enabling myths of the dominant groups, the continuing conflict between rights and duties, the possibilities offered by modern technologies and the use of those possibilities for good or ill, the causes of financial crises, among others. Previous recipients include Levy scholars James Galbraith (2020), John F. Henry (2017), Jan Kregel (2011), and Hyman P. Minsky (1996).

    L. Randall Wray is a senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute and professor of economics at Bard College. He is one of the original developers of Modern Money Theory. Wray’s most recent books are Why Minsky Matters (Princeton University Press, 2016), and A Great Leap Forward (Academic Press, 2020), and Handbook of Economic Stagnation(with Flavia Dantas; Elsevier, 2022). Four new books will be published in 2022/2023: Making Money Work for Us (Polity Press, Fall 2022), Money For Beginners (with Heske Van Doornen; Polity Press, 2023), Modern Monetary Theory: Key Thinkers, Leading Insights (editor; Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022), and The Elgar Companion to Modern Money Theory (with Yeva Nersisyan; Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023).

    Wray is the author of Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1990), Understanding Modern Money (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998), The Rise and Fall of Money Manager Capitalism (with É. Tymoigne; Routledge, 2013), Modern Money Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; 2nd rev. ed., 2015), and Macroeconomics (with William Mitchell and Martin Watts; Red Globe Press, 2019).

    Wray previously taught at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and at the University of Denver, and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Paris, Bologna, Bergamo and Rome, as well as UNAM in Mexico City. He holds a BA from the University of the Pacific and an MA and a Ph.D. from Washington University, where he was a student of Minsky. He has held a number of Fulbright Grants, including most recently at the Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia. He is the 2022 Veblen-Commons Award winner for contributions to Institutionalist Thought and will be the 2022-2023 Teppola Distinguished Visiting Professor at Willamette University, Salem Oregon.

    Learn more about the Veblen-Commons Award here.

    Post Date: 08-02-2022
  • Bard Economist L. Randall Wray on How Modern Monetary Theory Isn’t the Future. It’s Here Now.

    Bard Economist L. Randall Wray on How Modern Monetary Theory Isn’t the Future. It’s Here Now.

    In the Wall Street Journal, Bard economist and leading scholar of Modern Monetary Theory L. Randall Wray comments on how important elements of MMT, including the claim that a government need never default on debt issued in its own currency, are now accepted by much of the economic and financial establishment. “We got five or six trillion dollars of spending and tax cuts without anyone worrying about payfors, so that was a good thing,” says Wray. “In January [2020], MMT was a crazy idea, and then in March, it was, OK, we’re going to adopt MMT.” L. Randall Wray is Professor of Economics and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.
    Read more in the Wall Street Journal

    Post Date: 11-23-2021
  • How Should We Measure Well-Being? Dimitri B. Papadimitriou Talks with Financial Times about Bard Levy Institute’s New Federal Contract to Broaden Measures of Economic Well-Being

    How Should We Measure Well-Being? Dimitri B. Papadimitriou Talks with Financial Times about Bard Levy Institute’s New Federal Contract to Broaden Measures of Economic Well-Being

    Many of the metrics we commonly use to understand economic growth and well-being were developed nearly a century ago, and may no longer paint an accurate picture of the economy. The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College last week won a $300,000 federal contract to aid the US Department of Labor in its efforts to broaden how it measures the economic well-being of US households. Levy Institute President Dimitri Papadimitriou talked with Rana Foroohar of the Financial Times about how new metrics, such as measuring women’s unpaid labor, could create more clarity for policymakers.
    Read in the Financial Times

    Post Date: 11-09-2021
  • Professor Pavlina R. Tcherneva: A Just Transition Needs a Job Guarantee

    Professor Pavlina R. Tcherneva: A Just Transition Needs a Job Guarantee

    Associate Professor of Economics Pavlina R. Tcherneva says a job guarantee is necessary both for managing the disruptions wrought by global warming and for achieving a smooth, just transition to a low-carbon economy. And since the policy is also wildly popular, it should be a no-brainer for any politician who claims to be serious about tackling the climate crisis. “If ‘decent work for all’ is to become an actionable policy benchmark, access to a living-wage job must be guaranteed to everyone, not merely implied in the text of stimulus packages and other policies,” she writes.
    Read in the Jordan Times
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    Post Date: 09-21-2021

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    Thursday, June 15, 2023

    The Levy Institute's Graduate Programs in Economics Information Session

    Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
    Online Event 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.

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Thursday, June 1, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


Thursday, May 18, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


Thursday, May 4, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


Monday, April 24, 2023
Dr. Jill McCorkel, professor of sociology and criminology at Villanova University and the founder and executive director of the Philadelphia Justice Project for Women and Girls
Olin 102  5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Women are the fastest growing segment of virtually all sectors of the carceral system (jail, prison, parole, and probation). This is also the case at the back end of the system, among those serving extreme sentences of 50 years in prison or more. People serving these sentences refer to their experience as "death by incarceration" given that sentence length and statutory limitations and exclusions from parole eligibility guarantee that they will die in prison. The number of women serving these sentences has exponentially increased in recent decades. The vast majority are survivors of gender violence. Their criminal convictions are often directly or indirectly tied to their encounters with violence and abuse. In this talk, I'll discuss why and how this is happening and what we can and should be doing about it. 

https://www.jillmccorkel.com/
Philadelphia Justice Project for Women and Girls

 


Thursday, April 20, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


Thursday, April 6, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


Thursday, March 16, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


Thursday, March 2, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Professor J.T. Roane, assistant professor of geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
This talk is drawn from Roane's recently published book, Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023). Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated insurgent assembly—dark agoras—in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods. In acts that ranged from the mundane refashioning of intimate spaces to confrontations over the city's social and ecological arrangement, Black communities challenged the imposition of Progressive visions for urban order seeking to enclose or displace them.


Thursday, February 16, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


Thursday, February 2, 2023
  Youssef Ait Benasser, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor, Reed College
Olin 202  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Is trade policy symmetric? This talk sheds light on the trade performance of 73 country pairs that have experienced major liberalization policy reversals between 1986 and 2016. Econometric analysis of export data shows reversals have a limited impact and that earlier gains from removing trade barriers are persistent, particularly in wealthier countries. This result suggests that trade policy is asymmetric: compared to protectionist shocks, liberalization shocks have larger and longer effects. In this talk, Dr. Ait Benasser will present the methodology leading to their findings and the implications in the current context of renewed policy activism. They will also discuss how this project fits into their broader research agenda.


Thursday, February 2, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


Thursday, January 19, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


Thursday, January 5, 2023
Learn about our MA and MS programs and how to apply.
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Greetings, future Levy scholars. I am Carlton Rounds, admissions officer and assistant to the director of the Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. During this information session, I will provide an overview of the Levy academic programs, admission requirements, enrollment steps, and financial aid procedures. For international students, I can clarify immigration requirements and planning. As a former Bard student and lifelong area resident, I will speak about life in the Hudson Valley and Bard College. Please Note: Applicants that attend virtual information sessions will have their application fees waived.


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