Welcome to the Economics Department Website

Announcing the new Minor in Financial Modeling.
Visit the Computer Science Department's website for more information.

Interested in a Minor related to Business and Economics?
Visit the BALA Department's website.

Announcing our M.S. in Risk Management program.

The Economics Department does not offer pre-registration.
All BUS 300 courses are open only to BBA majors.
BBA majors who want to register for a 300 level course must call or visit the department at the time set for their registration.

Special Topics Course being offered in Spring 2010 is Entrepreneurship (BUS383)

Upcoming Events and Announcements:
Camp Deloitte for Freshmen
Career Development and Internships
 

What's Happening at QC Economics Students and Faculty: Please check out our new Alumni Corner. Spring 2010 QC Economics Alumni Profile Jerald Katzoff, of the Bureau of Health Professions. The department welcomes Drs. Neil Cummins (Ph.D, London School of Economics), Francesc Ortega (Ph.D, NYU), and Inas Rashad (Ph.D, CUNY Graduate Center) to the positions of assistant professors of economics starting in Fall 2009 and Fall 2010. To read more about our new faculty members, click here. Recent wages for Economics Majors	Spring 2010 QC Economics Faculty Feature
		In a paper titled, “Dispersion Trading: Empirical evidence from the U.S. options market”, Cara Marshall uses end-of-day implied volatilities extracted from equity option prices for the stocks that comprise the S&P 500 index to compute what she calls “Markowitz-implied volatility”. She then compares the Markowitz-implied volatility for the S&P 500 to the implied volatility of the S&P 500 extracted directly from index options on the S&P 500. Results shed some light on the efficiency with which the U.S. options markets price volatility, and suggest that a form of volatility trading known as “dispersion trading” can be profitable.

	We are located in Powdermaker Hall Room 300 on the Main Quad of Queens College
Powdermaker Hall
Our web site provides information about our faculty, students, and degree programs. As a department, we emphasize top level research and quality teaching. Traditionally, our faculty have come from leading graduate schools and they have published in some of the top journals in economics. The last few years have been particularly exciting ones for us as we have increased our hiring and expanded our course offerings. In terms of degree programs, we offer a Bachelor Business Administration in Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Students who have graduated from these programs have gone on to distinguish themselves in business, elite graduate and law schools as well as in government service.

Pictures from the Service Award Ceremony honoring professors: Gram, Edelstein, Roistacher, and Riskin.

For all students interested in a career in finance, see Careers in Financial Markets from eFinancialCareers.com.