Economics

2012-13 General Catalog

401 Engineering 2
(831) 459-2743
http://economics.ucsc.edu

Program Description | Course Descriptions


Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Robert F. Adams, Emeritus

Joshua Aizenman
International economics, economic development

Yin-Wong Cheung, Emeritus

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, Emeritus

Kenneth Kletzer
International economics, macroeconomics, economic development

Lori G. Kletzer, Emerita

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, Sikhs and the Punjab

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

Justin G. Marion
Public economics, empirical industrial organization

Assistant Professor

Eric Aldrich
Macroeconomic asset pricing, computational economics, financial econometrics, finance

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

Jennifer Poole
International trade; Latin American economics; applied microeconomics

Jonathan Robinson
Development economics, program evaluation

Alan Spearot
International trade; industrial organization, applied econometrics

Thomas Wu
International finance, macroeconomics, Brazilian macroeconomic policy

Senior Lecturer

Robert J. Shepherd, Emeritus

Lecturer

Julie Hupton Gonzalez
Environmental economics and policy, natural resource economics and policy, microeconomics, energy economics, managerial economics

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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: 8/31/12