Economics
2015-16 General Catalog
401 Engineering 2
(831) 459-2743
http://economics.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Carlos E. Dobkin
Public health, public policy, and econometrics
Robert W. Fairlie
Labor economics, entrepreneurship, education, applied econometrics
Daniel Friedman
Microeconomic theory, experimental/behavioral economics, evolution and learning, financial markets
K.C. Fung
International trade and finance, WTO, foreign direct investment, global environmental economics, and Asia/Pacific economies
Michael M. Hutchison
International finance, open economy macroeconomics, emerging markets, European and Asian economies
Kenneth Kletzer
International economics, macroeconomics, economic development
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
Associate Professor
Justin G. Marion
Public economics, empirical industrial organization
Jonathan Robinson
Development economics, program evaluation and applied microeconomics
Alan Spearot
International trade; industrial organization, applied econometrics
Assistant Professor
Eric Aldrich
Financial econometrics, finance, computational economics and macroeconomics
George Bulman
Applied public and labor, economics of education
Weishi Gu
Macroeconomics, international economics, labor economics and computational economics
Natalia Lazzati
Microeconomic theory, industrial organization, econometrics, experimental economics
Kristian Lopez-Vargas
Behavioral economics, experimental economics, microeconomic theory
Hikaru Saijo
Macroeconomics, applied econometrics
Ajay Shenoy
Development economics, economic growth, macroeconomics, political economy
Lecturer
James Costain
Macroeconomics, monetary economics, labor markets, game theory
Julie Hupton Gonzalez
Environmental economics and policy, natural resource economics and policy, microeconomics, energy economics, managerial economics
Mallory McWilliams
Financial accounting, managerial accounting, cost accounting, accounting information systems, advanced accounting and non-profit accounting
Kai Pommerenke
Entrepreneurship and e-commerce; corporate finance, investments, financial engineering, and Chartered Financial Analyst examination
Emeriti
Robert F. Adams, Emeritus
Joshua Aizenman, Emeritus
Yin-Wong Cheung, Emeritus
Michael P. Dooley, Emeritus
Bernard Elbaum, Emeritus
Mary Flannery, Emerita Lecturer
Ronald E. Grieson, Emeritus
John W. Isbister, Emeritus
David E. Kaun, Emeritus
Lori G. Kletzer, Emerita
Jacob B. Michaelsen, Emeritus
Peggy B. Musgrave, Emerita
Robert J. Shepherd, Emeritus Senior Lecturer
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Gregory Laughlin, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Extra-solar planets, numerical astrophysics, astrophysical phenomena of the extremely distant future
Adam Millard-Ball, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Transportation planning and policy, environmental economics, urban sustainability, climate change policy
John T. Musacchio, Associate 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
Yi Zhang, Associate Professor of Technology and Information Management
Information retrieval, knowledge management, natural language processing, machine learning
Revised: 09/01/15
