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Department Chair, Economics

Professor Blecker’s research interests include international trade, open economy macroeconomics, the value of the dollar and the U.S. trade deficit, economic integration in North America, the Mexican economy, the limits to export-led growth strategie... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Bono's research is in the development of non-equilibrium-based statistical models of strategic behavior. He is particularly concerned with integrating results from behavioral economics to construct applicable predictive models. One example ... [More]

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Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Professor Dittmar’s research interests include the institutional and technological determinants of economic growth, economic history, political economy, and economic geography. Check personal web-page link for more information.

Professor

Professor Feinberg received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD from the University of Virginia. He taught for ten years on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University, has served as an economist with the Antitrust Division of the De... [More]

Associate Professor

Maria Sagrario Floro dissertation was published into a book (co-authored) entitled Informal Rural Credit Markets and the New Institutional Economics: The Case of Philippine Agriculture (1991). From the time she was in college, she has been interested... [More]

Professor

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Economist in Residence

Professor Grown's current research focuses on assets and women’s well-being, gender equality and public finance, and measurement of women's status. She is currently teaching Gender Perspectives on Economic Analysis (Spring 2009). In the past, she tau... [More]

Associate Professor

Mary Eschelbach Hansen is widely published in the fields of child welfare policy and economic history. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Associate Professor

Professor Hazilla's research interests are econometrics, applied microeconomics and environmental economics. His current research in Bayesian econometrics using statistical monte carlo integration and applications to imposing regularity properties in... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Heracleous teaches:Econ 100: Macroeconomics (Fall)Econ 501: Macroeconomics (Fall)Econ 522: Econometrics (Spring)Econ 523: Applied Econometrics I (Fall, Spring)Econ 524: Applied Econometrics II (Fall)Econ 782: Seminar in Empirical Macroecono... [More]

Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor

Professor

Professor Lerman conducts research and publishes on employment, income support, and youth development, especially as they affect low-income populations. In the 1970s, he worked on reforming the nation’s income maintenance programs and on youth employ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor

Professor Meade works on topics in monetary policy, central banking institutions, currency unions, and exchange-rate regimes. She teaches macroeconomics to undergraduates (Econ 100 and Econ 301), MA students (Econ 501), and PhD students (Econ 712), a... [More]

Professor

Professor Meurs has recently taught Comparative Systems, Heterodox Microeconomics, Transition Economies, the Economics of Gender, and the Doctoral Dissertation Seminar.

Associate Professor

Primary Research interests: Intellectual property rights, R & D, and technological progress. General Interests: Economic Growth, International Trade and Development.Currently teaches Principles Macroeconomics and Microeconomics.Previously taught PhD ... [More]

Distinguished Economist in Residence

Dr. Arturo Porzecanski, Distinguished Economist-in-Residence, is an expert in international finance, emerging markets and Latin American economics and politics. He previously taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Williams College, b... [More]

Associate Professor

Prof. Reynolds joined the department in 2003 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include the political economy of trade protection, particularly antidumping protection, and the impact of trade liberalizati... [More]

Professor

Professor Sawers teaching interests are: Economic development with a focus on macroeconomic policy and U.S. Economic History

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor

Professor Starr's research interests are consumption, saving, wealth, macroeconomics, monetary policy, developing and emerging-market countries, and social economics.

Professor

Professor Willoughby has recently returned from a two-year stay in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates where he helped create an undergraduate economics program at the new American University of Sharjah. He has also taught at the American University in Cai... [More]

Associate Professor

Professor

Professor Wisman teaching interests are: History of Economic Thought, Methodology, History, Introductory Macroeconomics.