Economics Department Faculty
Full-time Faculty
Chad P. Bown, Associate Professor of Economics (on leave academic year 2009-10)
International economic theory and policy, development, globalization.
Elizabeth Brainerd, Susan and Barton Winokur Chair of Economics and
Women's and Gender Studies
Labor economics, economic demography, health economics, health and fertility in post-socialist countries.
Linda Bui, Associate Professor of Economics
Environmental economics, public finance, applied microeconomics, industrial organization.
Laarni Bulan, Assistant Professor of Finance, International Business School
Corporate finance, corporate governance, real options.
H. Michael Coiner, Associate Professor of Economics
Economics of higher education, macroeconomics, international economics.
F. Trenery Dolbear, Clinton S. Darling Professor of Economics
Macroeconomics, public sector.
Can Erbil, Assistant Professor of Economics
Economic development, international trade, public finance.
Kathryn Graddy, Associate Professor of Economics
Applied microeconomics, empirical industrial organization.
Nader Habibi, Henry J. Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East
Economics of the Middle East.
George J. Hall, Associate Professor of Economics
Macroeconomics, monetary economics, industrial organization.
Jens Hilscher, Assistant Professor of Finance, International Business School
Asset pricing, corporate finance, international finance.
Adam Jaffe, Dean of Arts and Sciences and Fred C. Hecht Professor of Economics
Technological change, economics of regulation, industrial organization.
Gary H. Jefferson, Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance and Chair
Economics of innovation, institutional economics, development, industrial organization, China.
Blake LeBaron, Abram L. and Thelma Sachar Professor of International Economics, International Business School
Macroeconomics, international finance, microeconomics.
Hong Li, Assistant Professor of Economics
Time series econometrics, macroeconomics, monetary economics.
Catherine L. Mann, Professor of International Economics and Finance,
International Business School
US in the global economy, technology and outsourcing, politics of US economic policy
Rachel McCulloch, Rosen Family Professor of International Finance
(on leave Spring 2010)
International economic theory and policy, industrial organization.
Nidhiya Menon, Associate Professor of Economics
Empirical microeconomics, economic development, econometrics, economic demography and labor.
(on leave Fall 2009)
International finance, financial markets, open economy, macroeconomics.
Peter Petri, Carl Shapiro Professor of International Finance, International Business School
(on leave Fall 2009)
International trade, development, Japan, Korea, China.
Scott Redenius, Senior Lecturer in Economics
Economic history, the economics of financial institutions.
Paroma Sanyal, Assistant Professor of Economics
R&D, productivity and patenting, electricity deregulation, regulation, industrial organization.
Elif Sisli Ciamarra, Assistant Professor of Finance, International Business School
Corporate finance, corporate governance, financial intermediation.
Daniel Tortorice, Assistant Professor of Economics
Macroeconomics: business cycles, consumption, unemployment fluctuations.
Patricia Tovar, Assistant Professor of Economics (on leave Fall 2009)
International trade, political economy, development, microeconomics, behavioral economics.
Emeriti Faculty
Anne Carter, Professor Emerita of Economics
Technological change, input/output analysis.
Visiting Faculty
Tyler Hull, PhD candidate, International Business School
Financial economics.
Kent Jones, Visiting Professor, Babson College
International trade disputes, international economics, trade policy, word trade organization.
Tanseli Savaser, Adjunct Instructor, Williams College
Global economy, financial economics, international finance, currency market microstructure.