This section highlights the research and academic interests of the Economics department faculty members. The Career Center staff encourages you to interact with faculty members and to consult them when considering research projects, graduate schools, and career opportunities. For faculty office hours and locations, call the Economics department at 275-5252.

Applied Economics

Elizabeth Caucutt (Ph.D. University of Minnesota) Interests in Macroeconomics and Public Finance.

Gordon Dahl (Ph.D. Princeton University) Interests in Labor, Public and Behavioral Economics.

Stanley Engerman (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) Interests in Economic History and the Economics of Sports.

Shakeeb Khan (Ph.D. Princeton University) Interests in Micro-econometrics and Econometrics

Lance Lochner (Ph.D. University of Chicago) Interests in Labor, Growth, Public Economics, Economics of Crime, and Economics of Education.

Glenn MacDonald (Ph.D. University of Rochester) Interests in Microeconomics, and Industry Dynamics.

Walter Oi (Ph.D. University of Chicago) Interests in Labor Economics and Industrial Organization.

Michael Wolkoff (Ph.D. Michigan) Interests in Public Policy and Economics.

Econometrics

Doug Hodgson (Ph.D. Yale) Interests in Time Series and Financial Econometrics, Financial Economics.

Shakeeb Khan (Ph.D. Princeton University) Interests in Micro-econometrics and Econometrics.

Werner Ploberger (Dr. Techn, Vienna University of Technology) Interests in Econometrics.

Marine Carrasco (Ph.D. University Toulose I) Interests in Econometrics.

Economic Theory

Alvaro Sandroni (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) Interests in Economic Theory

John Duggan (Ph.D. California Institute of Technology) Interests in Game Theory and Political Economy

Larry Epstein (Ph.D. University of British Columbia) Interests in Decision Theory, Mathematical Economics, Asset Pricing.

Hugo Hopenhayn (Ph.D. Minnesota) Interests in Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory, Dynamic Competitive Equilibrium Theory and Growth.

Steve Landsburg (Ph.D. University of Chicago) Ð Interests in Microeconomics

Glenn MacDonald (Ph.D. University of Rochester) - Interests in Microeconomics and Industry Dynamics.

Lionel McKenzie (Ph.D. Princeton University) Ð Interests in General Equilibrium and Capital Theory.

William Thomson (Ph.D. Stanford University) Ð Interests in Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Theory of Equity.

Francesco Squintani (Ph.D. Northwestern) - Interests in Game Theory.

International Economics

Ron Jones (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ð Interests in International Economics.

Alan Stockman (Ph.D. Chicago) - Interests in International Economics and Macroeconomics. **Goergen Award Winner

Macroeconomics

Irasema Alonso (Ph.D. Minnesota) - Interests in Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory, and Banking Theory.

Mark Bils (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ð Interests in Macroeconomics, Applied Price Theory.

Elizabeth Caucutt (Ph.D. University of Minnesota) - Interests in Macroeconomics and Public Finance.

Jeremy Greenwood (Ph.D. University of Rochester) - Interests in Macroeconomics.

Per Krusell (Ph.D. University of Minnesota) - Interests in Macroeconomics, Political Economy, and Economic Growth.