Megan Degenfelder Named UW's Co-Outstanding Graduating Woman. Megan Degenfelder, who will graduate in May with dual degrees in political science and economics, is the co-recipient of the Rosemarie Martha Spitaleri Award as the University of Wyoming's outstanding graduating woman.

UW College of Business Students Meet with Warren and Jimmy Buffett. The UW students, along with other invited students from around the country, met in Buffett's office of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, where he is the company's primary shareholder, chairman and CEO.

Power Generation & Environment: Choices & Economic Trade-Offs Symposium.

Professors Hilla Skiba and Nicole Choi traveled to Omaha, NE to meet with Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.  Read the article in the Casper Star-Tribune.

Professor Jason Shogren was quoted in an article in the Wyoming Business Report on "Consumers show dip in confidence: Consumer Reports Index".

Professor David Finnoff has been honored with the 2012 Mortor Board's Outstanding Advisor award.  The Outstanding Advisor Award is presented to a member of the university community who has performed outstanding academic, career, and personal advising. Students are asked to nominate individuals who skillfully, and consistently, provide academic advice as well as career guidance, and who establish personal relationships with their students.

Professor Edward Barbier has a comment piece in Nature on "Tax 'societal illls' to save the planet".

Professor Jason Shogren will take part in the Royal Professors' Symposium on Global Sustainability, scheduled March 22 at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.

WSJ.com cites Professor Tim Considine in the article "Oil and Gas Boom Lifts U.S. Economy". 

Can the West save us from foreign oil imports?  Read the article "Drilling to Energy Independence".

Professor Tim Considine presented research at the University of Southern California comparing the economic impacts of renewable portfolio standards, natural gas power generation, and developing oil and gas resources in California.  

Salon.com reports on the "Five Places where the rich, got richer" and quotes UW Professor Jason Shogren.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviews Professor Tim Considine at the Quebec Oil and Gas Association meeting.  The link is in french.

Guardian from the United Kingdom referenced UW Stroock Professor Jason Shogren and Appalachian State University Professor Todd Cherry's research on "The Social Cost of Coal:  A Tale of Market Failure and Market Solution".

Newsweek's Daily Beast quoted UW Economics Professor Ed Barbier in an article about the economic crisis.

Richard Van Horne, Assistant Lecturer, addressed the CFA Society of Singapore on the topic of Hedge Funds and Hedging Mutual Funds.

Forbes.com referenced UW Economics Professor Tim Considine's model of the global oil market.

Financial Times referenced UW Finance Professor Hilla Skiba's research on "Home Bias".

Economic Logic Blog spot comments on UW Economics Professors David Aadland and Sherrill Shaffer's research on the perception of time.

USA Today quoted UW Economics Professor Rob Godby in an article about the state's population growth.

The Casper Star Tribune published a feature about experiences offered to students in the new UW College of Business trading room.

Welcome to the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Wyoming

From undergraduate studies to PhDs, UW offers economics degree programs and finance degree programs that provide students with the academic background that enables them to succeed in a variety of career options.

Our motto: Small by design, focus on strength 

• E&F faculty and students examine economic & financial issues that matter locally and resonate around the globe, including environmental policy, natural resources, energy, market organization, trade, finance and economic development. The department has produced a world-class program by pulling together scientists with a common purpose-how to use economics and finance to create more well-being while protecting our environment and natural resources.
• In 2010, the National Research Council (NRC) ranked the Department as the nation's leader in faculty research output and eighth overall in research productivity out of 120 US PhD programs. Economics and finance degree programs at UW include a bachelor of science, master of science, and Ph.D.

Why Major in Economics & Finance?

• Economics & Finance degree programs provide you with a logical method of thinking you can use forever; you will have a set of tools that will help shape how you view the world's affairs.
• Starting salaries of economics & finance majors traditionally rank high among all starting salaries. Your degree gives you a top 5 salary immediately and in the long-term with a 2009 starting median salary of $50,000 and mid career median salary of $101,000 (http://www.payscale.com/)

Contact Information

College of Business
Economics and Finance
BU 225
Dept. 3985,
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: (307) 766-2178
Fax: (307) 766-5090
econfinance@uwyo.edu

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