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Danforth-Lewis Speaker: David Fuente
David Fuente, associate professor at the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment at the University of South Carolina, is the featured speaker at a lunchtime talk Friday, Dec. 5 at noon in King 243.
2025 Distinguished Finance Speaker
Mark Carey '80 is the Economics Department's 2025 Distinguished Finance Speaker. Carey, senior policy advisor for the U.S. Office of Financial Research. His topic is "Are Bankers Paid Poorly? Balancing Risk and Value Creation in Finance". Lunch will be provided from 11:50 am - 12:15 p.m. in the atrium.
Advanced degrees in finance and business
Learn about opportunities for advanced degrees in Finance and Business at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland at a lunchtime program Tues, Nov. 4 at 12...
Drop in for career advice from Bruno Bertocci '76
Are you curious about how to build a purpose-driven finance career rooted in positive social impact? Do you want to break or pivot into impact finance, but don't know how?
Join us Mon, Nov. 3 at 12...
Danforth-Lewis Speaker Series
What lessons does the trade war of the 1930s offer to model-builders and policy-makers in the 21st century?
Mario Crucini, chair of Economics at Purdue University, is the featured guest in the...
Danforth-Lewis Speaker Series
Reaching the novice or nudging the expert? Networks, information, and the experimental returns to migration
Travis Baseler, assistant professor of economics at the University of Rochester, presents...
Finance@Oberlin Reunion Weekend talks
Celebrate the launch of Oberlin’s Financial Economics major, the success of the Oberlin Finance Club, and the career paths students are pursuing in finance.
Also hear about the Center for Impact Finance, where alumni, faculty, and students research how finance can address social and environmental challenges, and the center’s flagship course, LEAD 192 Essentials of Impact Finance.
Careers Week events
The Economics Department is partnering with the team from Career Exploration and Development (CED) to present a week of informational lunches describing various career paths for economics students.
Students win national research awards
Three Oberlin students have distinguished themselves in the Omicron Delta Epsilon Undergraduate Research Award competition. Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international honor society celebrating academic...Economics Major Publishes Joint Paper with Oberlin professor in the Michigan Journal of Business
Franklin Colburn-Sanchez ’23, “The Municipal Bond Market: Pre- and Post-Covid,” Michigan Journal of Business.