Facts & figures
Ranked top 5 in Australia
- 2020 QS World University Rankings for Economics
Faculties and schools_
School of Economics
Understanding and shaping the broad framework of our society
Economics is a diverse and fascinating discipline that addresses a range of issues that we face in modern life and plays a central role in shaping our society at every level.
Our undergraduate and postgraduate economics programs consistently rank in the top five for Australia*. We have a long and proud history of research strengths and teaching excellence and are one of the most highly ranked centres for research in economics globally.
Our academics and researchers are leaders in their fields. Their broad expertise promotes a deep understanding of the key concepts of economics and a focus on contemporary issues.
Our alumni are highly sought after and have included a former Prime Minister, several NSW premiers, and leaders in the World and Reserve Banks. Our graduates have also held influential positions in the Treasury and other policy departments, international agencies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), financial institutions and non-government organisations.
Our study offering
Undergraduate degrees
The Bachelor of Economics introduces you to a diverse, fascinating discipline that addresses a range of big issues in modern life and plays a central role in shaping the broad framework of society at every level. It provides undergraduate training in theoretical and applied aspects of modern economics, econometrics and financial economics.
- Bachelor of Economics
- Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Advanced Studies
- Bachelor of Economics (Dual Degree, Sciences Po, France)
- Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Laws
Majors and minors
Below is a list of our economics majors and minors. These are available to all students studying the Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Visual Arts, as well as all combined Bachelor of Advanced Studies degrees.
Environment, Agricultural and Resource Economics
- Environment, Agricultural and Resource Economics major
- Environment, Agricultural and Resource Economics minor
Econometrics
Economic Policy*
*Not available to Bachelor of Economics students
Economics
Financial Economics
We offer three postgraduate master’s degrees. If you don’t have a background in economics or you’re a new economics graduate, our Master of Economics will provide you with the skills to apply economic methods and knowledge to practical, contemporary problems in business and government.
The dual degree, Master of Economics (with Fudan University), will allow you to graduate with two master’s degrees from two prestigious international universities. Designed for students who wish to engage in international business partnerships with China and take advantage of growing business opportunities in the region, this dual degree equips you with advanced analytical and quantitative skills in economics.
If you have a strong background in economics and are looking to receive advanced training or a pathway to higher degree study, you may like to consider our Master of Economic Analysis.
In addition, we have the following graduate diplomas and graduate certificates on offer.
Our people
- Professor Garry Barrett, Head of School
- Ms Laura Wilson, School Manager
- Dr Denny Lie, Undergraduate Coordinator
- Associate Professor Mark Melatos, Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator
- Professor John Romalis, Honours Coordinator
- Dr Rebecca Edwards and Associate Professor Kadir Atalay, Postgraduate Research Coordinators. Email enquiries: econ.hdrenq@sydney.edu.au
- Emeritus Professor Tony Aspromourgos
- Adjunct Professor Adrian Blundell-Wignall
- Visiting Professor Colin Cameron
- Adjunct Professor Malcolm Edey
- Honorary Professor Gordon Mills
- Emeritus Professor Adrian Pagan
- Honorary Associate Professor Russell Ross
- Honorary Associate Kevin Schnepel
- Visiting Associate Professor Betsey Stevenson
- Research Affiliate Mara Thiene
- Research Affiliate Samuel Wills
- Visiting Professor Justin Wolfers
- Honorary Associate Professor Donald Wright
- Honorary Associate Professor Judy Yates
Visiting academics
Soojoong Nam, Kongju National University
Visiting: January-December
Uttam Sharma, World Bank and Asian Development Bank
Visiting: January - February
Giuseppe Cavaliere, University of Bologna
Expertise: time series econometrics; financial econometrics; statistical inference; empirical macroeconomics
Visiting: January
Jocelyn Martel, ESSEC Business School
Expertise: corporate restructuring; insolvency; bankruptcy
Visiting: January-February
Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan
Expertise: the impact of public policies on the labour market
Visiting: January-February
Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan
Expertise: Labour economics; macroeconomics; social policy; behavioural economics; political economy; law and economics
Visiting: January-February
Joeri Smits, Yale University
Expertise: development economics; political economy; applied econometrics
Visiting: November 2019-April 2020
Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University
Visiting: February-June
Shelly Lundberg, University of California, Santa Barbara
Expertise: Labour economics; economic demography
Visiting: January - March
Richard Startz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Expertise: Econometrics; macroeconomics
Visiting: January - March
Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan
Expertise: the impact of public policies on the labour market
Visiting: January-February
Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan
Expertise: Labour economics; macroeconomics; social policy; behavioural economics; political economy; law and economics
Visiting: January-February
Jocelyn Martel, ESSEC Business School
Expertise: Financial Economics
Visiting: February
John Nachbar, Washington University, St Louis
Expertise: Economic theory
Visiting: February - June
Kevin Schnepel, Simon Fraser University
Expertise: Crime economics, labour economics, environmental economics
Visiting: February
Sholeh Maani, University of Auckland
Expertise: Economics of labour markets and labour market policy; economics of education; economics of immigration; income distribution; health and housing
Visiting: February - March
Brian Jacob, University of Michigan
Expertise: Labour economics; program evaluation; economics of education
Visiting: February
Marco Caliendo, University of Potsdam
Expertise: Evaluation of Labour Market Programs; Job Search and Unemployment Dynamics; Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment, Start-up Subsidies; Personality Traits, Preferences, and Economic Outcomes; Applied Microeconometrics
Visiting: February - March
Simon Burgess, University of Bristol
Expertise: Labour Economics; Inequality; Poverty
Visiting: February-March
Miriam Gensowski, University of Copenhagen
Expertise: Labour economics and economics of education
Visiting: February-April
Rémi Piatek, University of Copenhagen
Expertise: Bayesian econometrics; factor modeling; mixture modeling, and computational econometrics
Visiting: February-April
Thomas Schober, Johannes Kepler University
Expertise: Health economics; applied microeconomics; policy evaluation
Visiting: March-May
Ian Walker, Lancaster University Management School
Expertise: Applied empirical microeconomics
Visiting: March
Orla Doyle, University College Dublin
Expertise: Economics of human development; health economics; labour economics; political behaviour; early childhood development and education; developmental psychology and methods for evaluating policy interventions
Visiting: May-June
Yibai Yang, University of Macau
Expertise: economic growth; innovation; intellectual property rights; monetary and fiscal policies
Visiting: July 2019
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Expertise: Applied microeconomics; economics and psychology; public economics; experimental economics
Visiting: July-August
Daniel Hamermesh, University of Texas, Austin
Expertise: Time use; labour demand; discrimination; academic labour markets; labour economics
Visiting: July - September 2019
Colin Cameron, UC Davis
Expertise: econometric theory for cross-section data
Visiting: July-September 2019
Martin Huber, University of Fribourg
Expertise: Policy/treatment effect evaluation in labour, health and education economics; semi- and nonparametric microeconometric methods for causal inference
Visiting: July - August 2019
Daniel Kamhöfer, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Expertise: Returns to education; formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills; female labor supply; drivers of physical and mental health, and; economic aspects in family planning.
Visiting: August 2019
Nigel McClung, Bank of Finland
Expertise: Macroeconomics; monetary; learning
Visiting: September 2019
Duc Minh Nguyen, Vietnam National University of Agriculture
Visiting: November-December 2019
Benjamin Wong, Monash University
Expertise: applied macroeconomics; time series analysis
Visiting: November 2019
Pablo Andrés Neumeyer, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
Expertise: macroeconomics; international finance and development
Visiting: December 2019
Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia
Expertise: Labour economics, labour relations; public policy
Visiting: November 2017 - January 2018
Mathias Sinning, Australian National University
Expertise: Labour economics; public economics; policy evaluation
Visiting: January 2018
Jocelyn Martel, ESSEC Business School, France
Expertise: Corporate restructuring; insolvency; bankruptcy
Visiting: January - Febuary 2018
Guillaume Frechette, New York University
Expertise: Experimental economics; industrial organization; political economy; public economics
Visiting: February 2018
Simon Burgess, University of Bristol, IZA
Expertise: Labour economics; inequality; poverty
Visiting: February - March 2018
Martin Kocher, University of Munich
Expertise: Behavioural and experimental economics
Visiting: February 2018
Gavin Wood, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Expertise: Public policy and urban studies; housing finance; labour economics; homelessness
Visiting: February 2018
Angus Holford, ISER, University of Essex
Expertise: Evidence-based policy; randomised control trials; peer effects; microeconometrics; family economics; education inequalities
Visiting: April 2018
Anne Gielen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Expertise: Labour economics; health economics; applied microeconometrics
Visiting: May - July 2018
Dominique Lemmermann, University of Erlangen, Nuremberg
Expertise: Development economics; economics of migration; economics of education; labour economics
Visiting: May - June 2018
Brendan K. Beare, University of California, San Diego
Expertise: Econometric theory; financial econometrics; time series econometrics
Visiting: May - June 2018
Daniel Tregeagle, University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
Expertise: Agricultural economics; environmental economics; natural resource economics
Visiting: June 2018
Prabal Roy Chowdhury, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
Expertise: Game theory; industrial organization; bargaining; development economics; micro-finance; land acquisition
Visiting: June 2018
Jana Mareckova, University of Konstanz
Expertise: High-dimensional models; regularization methods
Visiting: July - September 2018
Orla Doyle, University College Dublin
Expertise: Economics of human development; health economics; early child development and education; methods for evaluating policy interventions
Visiting: July - August 2018
Christopher Jepsen, University College Dublin
Expertise: Economics of education; labour economics; demographic economics; public economics
Visiting: June 2018 - January 2019
Sayeed Unisa, International Institute for Population Sciences
Expertise: Mathematical demography and statistics
Visiting: August 2018
Peer Skov, Auckland University of Technology
Expertise: Public finance; applied micro-econometrics; programme and policy evaluation
Visiting: September 2018
Juliana Silva Goncalves, Queensland University of Technology
Expertise: Behavioural economics
Visiting: September 2018
Karl Whelan, University College Dublin
Expertise: Applied macroeconomic
Visiting: November 2018
Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia
Expertise: Labour economics; labour relations; public policy
Visiting: October - December 2018
Events
UPDATE: In light of COVID-19 developments, please be advised that School of Economics events will no longer take place in the short term. Some of our events are transitioning to online, and these will be advertised accordingly. Let us know what event you're interested in via our online form, and we'll update you as the situation changes.
Learn more about the University’s advice regarding COVID-19 here.
Visit the School's event calendar for a list of our upcoming events. For details about our research seminars and groups, visit our research page.
The Warren Hogan Memorial Lecture Series
The School of Economics was established from 1 January 2011 to serve as the primary institutional vehicle for Economics research and education within the University of Sydney. That year the school inaugurated an annual public lecture series – the Warren Hogan Memorial Lecture – devoted to the economic analysis of public policy issues. It commemorates Warren Pat Hogan (1929–2009), Professor of Economics in the University of Sydney, 1968–1998.
The Warren Hogan Memorial Lecture is alternatively hosted by the University of Sydney and UTS.
2020
Dr Kerry Schott AO
Chair of the Australian Energy Board and Director of NBN
Watch the lecture: Economic policy amid disruption
- 2019
Hon Chris Bowen MP
Shadow Minister for Health
Listen now: Economics and Modern Issues: Climate Change and Health
- 2018
The Hon John Winston Howard OM AC
Former Prime Minister of Australia
- 2017
Dr Guy Debelle
Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
- 2016
Ms Annabel Spring (BEc Hons '92, LLB Hons '94)
Group Executive Wealth Management, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- 2015
Dr Martin Parkinson
Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Commonwealth of Australia
- 2014
Mr Hugh Harley (BEc Hons '84, LLB Hons '86)
Financial Services Leader, Price Waterhouse Coopers
- 2013
Dr John Laker (BEc Hons ’72)
Chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
- 2012
Charles Calomiris
Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
- 2011
Mr Glenn Stevens (BEc Hons ’80)
Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
*2020 QS World University Rankings for Economics & Econometrics
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