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We are very pleased to announce that Jonathan Eaton will be joining the Department of Economics this year. Jonathan is a leader in the field of international economics, with path breaking research on sovereign debt, trade policy and (more recently) the new generation of models of international trade, among other topics. He won the Frisch Medal (with Samuel Kortum) in 2004 for his paper "Technology, Geography and Trade," published in Econometrica in 2002. He was Vice President of the American Economic Association in 2003, is one of two editors of the Journal of International Economics, and has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1995. Jonathan comes to Penn State from New York University, where he has been Professor of Economics since 2003. Previous to that he was at Princeton University, Yale University, University of Virginia and Boston University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard as an undergraduate and obtained his Ph.D. at Yale University.

We are also happy to report that Adam Slawski and Travis L. Letellier will be joining the Department this Fall as Assistant Professor and Lecturer of Economics, respectively.

Adam Slawski earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research is in the area of financial economics, focusing on asset pricing under asymmetric information. His job market paper explored the possibility of speculative trade in durable assets (i.e., trade motivated by differences in people's beliefs regarding an asset's intrinsic value).

Travis L. Letellier earned is a Ph.D. candidate at the Florida International University in Miami. His graduate research focuses on politics, voting, and the media. He will be teaching sections in both Introductory Macroeconomics and Intermediate Macroeconomics.

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