2011-12 General Catalog

401 Engineering 2
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Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Robert F. Adams, Emeritus

Joshua Aizenman
International economics, economic development

Yin-Wong Cheung
Applied econometrics and international finance

Michael P. Dooley
International finance, monetary theory and policy

Robert W. Fairlie
Labor economics, public policy, entrepreneurship, applied econometrics

Daniel Friedman
Microeconomic theory, experimental economics, evolution and learning, behavioral economics, financial markets

K.C. Fung
International trade and finance, WTO, foreign direct investment, global environmental economics, and Asia/Pacific economies

Ronald E. Grieson, Emeritus

Michael M. Hutchison
International finance, macroeconomics, emerging markets

John W. Isbister, Emeritus

David E. Kaun
Economics of art and culture; political economy of capitalism (including the quality of public discourse and its impact on public policy)

Kenneth Kletzer
International economics, macroeconomics, economic development

Lori G. Kletzer
Employment and wage determination, impact of globalization on the domestic labor market, industrial relations, government labor market policies, higher education and the labor market

Jacob B. Michaelsen, Emeritus

Peggy B. Musgrave, Emerita

Nirvikar Singh
Industrial organization, political economy, economic development, technology and innovation, South Asian immigrants in the U.S., Indian economy

Carl E. Walsh
Monetary theory and policy, macroeconomics

Donald A. Wittman
Economic theory, politics, law

Adjunct Professor

Sharath Sury
Investment management and research, porfolio theory, strategic asset allocation, active risk budgeting, hedge funds, alpha/beta risk separation

Associate Professor

Carlos E. Dobkin
Public health, public policy, and econometrics

Bernard L. Elbaum
Economic history

Phillip McCalman
International trade, intellectual property rights, industrial organization

Justin G. Marion
Public economics, empirical industrial organization

Assistant Professor

Ricard Gil
Industrial organization, organizational economics, and applied microeconomics

Aspen Gorry
Macroeconomics, search theory, employment and labor market policies

Ryan Oprea
Experimental economics, industrial organization, applied game theory, and financial markets, economic dynamics, behavioral economic, experimetrics and applied theory

Jennifer Poole
International trade; Latin American economics; applied microeconomics

Jonathan Robinson
Economic development, with an emphasis on field experiments and primary data collection

Alan Spearot
International trade; industrial organization, applied econometrics

Thomas Wu
International finance, macroeconomics, Brazilian macroeconomic policy

Senior Lecturer

Robert J. Shepherd
Financial, managerial, cost accounting; intermediate accounting; and certified public accountant examination 

Lecturer

Mary Flannery
Economics of the telecommunications industry, applied microeconomics, business strategy and marketing

Paul M. Lubeck, Professor of Sociology
Political sociology; political economy of development, globalization, labor and work; logics of methodology; religion and social movements; Islamic society and identities; information and networks

John T. Musacchio, Assistant Professor of Information Systems Management
Control, analysis, and pricing of communications networks; applications of game theory in networking; wireless ad-hoc networks; and management of technology

Kevin G. Ross, Assistant Professor of Information Systems Management
Service engineering and management; resource allocation; operations research, pricing, scheduling; queueing theory; networks

Helen Shapiro, Associate Professor of Sociology
Political economy, Latin American economic history and development (with an emphasis on Brazil), industrial policy, the auto industry, the state and transnational corporations

Yi Zhang, Associate Professor of Technology and Information Management
Information retrieval, knowledge management, natural language processing, machine learning

Revised: 8/13/12