Economics
2018-19 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 applied econometrics
Robert W. Fairlie
Labor economics, public economics, entrepreneurship, education
Daniel Friedman
Microeconomic theory, experimental/behavioral economics, evolution and learning, financial markets
K.C. Fung
International trade and finance, economies of China and Japan, WTO, foreign direct investment, global environmental economics, and Asia/Pacific economies and economics of Silicon Valley
Michael M. Hutchison
International finance, open economy macroeconomics, emerging markets, European and Asian economies
Laura Giuliano
Labor economics, education, public policy, applied econometrics
Kenneth Kletzer
International economics, macroeconomics, development economics
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
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
Chenyue Hu
International economics, macroeconomics, financial economics
Natalia Lazzati
Microeconomic theory, industrial organization, econometrics, experimental economics
Jessie Li
Econometrics, machine learning
Kristian Lopez-Vargas
Behavioral economics, experimental economics, microeconomic theory
Hikaru Saijo
Macroeconomics, applied econometrics
Brenda Samaniego de la Parra
Applied macroeconomics, labor economics, development economics, and firm dynamics.
Ajay Shenoy
Development economics, economic growth, macroeconomics, political economy
Alonso Villacorta
Macroeconomics, finance
Jeremy West
Applied microeconomics, public economics, energy/environmental economics
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
Kevin Jones
Cost accounting, financial accounting, government and not-for-profit managerial accounting, corporate governance and audit
Thomas Moschetti
Taxation of business and investment transactions, corporate tax and individual tax, financial accounting and managerial 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
Robert J. Shepherd, Emeritus Senior Lecturer
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Yihsu Chen, Associate Professor of Technology Management
Economics and policy in energy, water resources and transportation sector
Adam Millard-Ball, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Transportation planning and policy, environmental economics, urban sustainability, climate change policy
John T. Musacchio, Professor of Technology Management
Control, analysis, and pricing of communications networks; applications of game theory in networking; wireless ad-hoc networks; and management of technology
Yi Zhang, Professor of Technology Management
Information retrieval, knowledge management, natural language processing, machine learning
Revised: 07/15/18
