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Faculty in the Department of Economics

Susan Laury, Chair

Experimental Economics, Public Economics

James Alm

Public Economics, Tax Policy, State and Local Government Finance

Roy Bahl

State and Local Public Finance, Urban and Regional Economics, Public Finances of Developing Countries
H. Spencer Banzhaf Environmental Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, History of Economic Thought
James Cox Experimental Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory

Paul Farnham

Health Care Economics, Economics of HIV/AIDS, Public Finance, Public Policy
Paul Ferraro Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, International and Domestic Environmental Policy, Experimental Economics
Shelby Frost Natural Resources/Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Mathematical Economics

Shiferaw Gurmu

Econometrics and Statistics
Kenneth Heaghney Tax Revenue Forecasting
Paul Kagundu State and Local Public Finance, Public Choice and Institutions, Economic growth/development, Applied Econometrics

Bruce Kaufman

Labor Economics, Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management
Yuriy Kitsul Financial Economics, Econometrics, Financial Markets

Jon Mansfield

Macroeconomics, Federal Reserve, Monetary Policy and the Banking System, International Finance and Exchange Rates, Economics of E-Commerce

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations, Budgeting and Fiscal Management, Economics of Education, Taxation, Urban Economics, Economics of Developing Countries, Manpower Policies and Union Behavior
James Marton Health Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Robert Moore

International Trade, Development Economics, Industrial Organization
Klara Sabirianova Peter Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics and Industrial Organization, Development Economics, Economics of Transition and Comparative Economic Systems, Public Policy
Ragan Petrie Experimental Economics, Microeconomics, Development, Bargaining, Charitable Fundraising
Inas Rashad Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Finance
Mark Rider Public Finance, Applied Microeconomics

Felix Rioja

Macroeconomics, International Finance, Latin American Development, Applied Econometrics
Glenwood Ross (Adjunct) Urban Economics, Distribution of Retail Firm Activity, Economic Development and Sub-Saharan Africa, GIS and Economic Pedagogy
Jon Rork State and Local Public Finance, Urban and Regional Economics
Vjollca Sadiraj Experimental Economics, Microeconomics and Game Theory, Public Economics, Decision Theory

Bruce Seaman

Industrial Organization, Antitrust, Nonprofit Organizations, Arts Economics, Public Finance, Economic Development, Economics of Sports

David L. Sjoquist

Property Taxation, Urban Inequality

Paula Stephan

Economics of Science, Immigrant Scientists, Innovation and Geography, Role of University Scientists
Todd Swarthout Experimental Economics
Erdal Tekin Labor Economics, Health Economics, Applied Econometrics
Wayne Thirsk Tax Policy Reform, Budget Process Reform, Reform of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relationships
Geoffrey Turnbull Urban and Real Estate Economics, Public Finance

Neven Valev

International Finance, Exchange Rates, Financial Crises

Mary Beth Walker

Econometrics and Statistics, Applied Microeconomics

Sally Wallace

Income Taxation, Sales Taxation, Distributional Effects of Taxation, Tax Burden Analysis, Effects of Demographic Changes on Tax Bases

Yongsheng Xu

Individual and Collective Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, Poverty and Inequality, Tax and Fiscal Competition