Tag: Fed Challenge

Photo from federalreserve.gov of the Pace University Fed Challenge team and their faculty advisers

Each year the Federal Reserve sponsors a competition among college student teams. As desribed on the Fed’s website, in the competition “Teams analyze economic and financial conditions and formulate a monetary policy recommendation, modeling the Federal Open Market Committee.” 

This year’s winner is Pace University, representing the New York Federal Reserve District. Harvard College took second place and the University of California, Los Angeles took third place. The University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and Davidson College received honorable mentions. In 2024, the competition was won by the team from Princeton University, representing the Philadelphia Federal Reserve District.

This year, 139 colleges in 36 states participated in the competition. The rules of the competition are described here. After the competition, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell noted that: “Fed Challenge offers undergraduate students an opportunity to learn firsthand about monetary policy and the work of the Federal Reserve. I thank these students for the dedication, creativity, and analytical skills they demonstrated as they grappled with real-world economic challenges.”