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Faculty Profiles

  • Titan Alon

    Titan Alon

    • Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2018
    • Assistant Professor
    • Research Interests: Macroeconomics, labor, economic history, and growth
  • James Andreoni

    James Andreoni

    • Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986
    • Professor
    • Research Interests: Altruism, charitable giving, experimental economics, decision making, law and economics
  • Kate Antonovics

    Kate Antonovics

    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2000
    Provost, Seventh College; Teaching Professor (SLSOE)
    Research Groups: Public Economics, Labor Economics 
    Research Interests: Racial discrimination, gender discrimination, affirmative action, economics of education, intergenerational income mobility, learning, and wage dynamics

  • David Arnold

    David Arnold

    Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020
    Assistant Teaching Professor (LPSOE), Co-Director of Instruction
    Research Groups: Labor Economics
    Research Interests: Wage determination and discrimination

  • Richard Attiyeh

    Richard Attiyeh

    Ph.D., Yale University 
    Professor Emeritus
    Research Groups: Environment and Resource Economics, Econometrics, Public Economics 

  • Samuel Bazzi

    Samuel Bazzi

    • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2013
    • Associate Professor
    • Research Interests: Development, political economics
  • Eli Berman

    Eli Berman

    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993
    Professor
    Research Interests: Labor economics, labor demand and technological change, religion, middle east, terrorism and insurgency, fertility, immigration, language

  • Julian R. Betts

    Julian R. Betts

    Ph.D., Queens University, 1990
    Professor
    Research Interests: Labor economics, economics of education, immigration, technological change

  • Prashant Bharadwaj

    Prashant Bharadwaj

    Ph.D., Yale University, 2009
    Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies
    Research Interests: Fertility and labor markets, health impacts of air pollution

  • Judd Boomhower

    Judd Boomhower

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
    Assistant Professor
    Research Groups: Environment and Resource Economics, Public Economics, Industrial Organization 
    Research Interests: Energy markets, climate change adaptation

  • Renee Bowen

    Renee Bowen

    Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2008
    Professor
    Research Groups: Political Economics, Microeconomic Theory, International Economics, Law & Economics
    Research Interests: Political economy, microeconomic theory, and international trade

  • Richard T. Carson

    Richard T. Carson

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1985
    Professor
    Research Interests: Environmental valuation, climate change, environment and development, fisheries

  • Jeffrey Clemens

    Jeffrey Clemens

    Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
    Associate Professor 
    Research Groups: Public Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics 
    Research Interests: Health economics, minimum wages, fiscal federalism, social insurance

  • Vincent P. Crawford

    Vincent P. Crawford

    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976
    Professor Emeritus & Research Professor
    Research Interests: Microeconomic theory, behavioral and experimental economics

  • Julie Berry Cullen

    Julie Berry Cullen

    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997
    Professor & Chair, Department of Economics
    Research Groups: Public Economics, Labor Economics 
    Research Interests: Economics of education, social insurance, fiscal federalism
  • Gordon B. Dahl

    Gordon B. Dahl

    Ph.D., Princeton University, 1998
    Professor 
    Research Groups: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Political Economics 
    Research Interests: Human capital, family economics, crime, peer effects

  • Songzi Du

    Songzi Du

    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2012
    Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Game theory, mechanism design, market microstructure
  • Fabian Eckert

    Fabian Eckert

    Ph.D., Yale University, 2019
    Assistant Professor
    Research Groups: International Economics, Macroeconomics 
    Research Interests: 
    International trade, macroeconomics, spatial economics

  • Graham Elliott

    Graham Elliott

    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1994
    Sir Clive W.J. Granger Endowed Chair in Econometrics, Professor
    Research Groups: Econometrics 
    Research Interests: Econometric theory, forecasting, energy economics

  • Robert F. Engle

    Robert F. Engle

    Ph.D., Cornell University, 1969
    Prof. Emeritus, Research Prof., & 2003 Nobelist
    Research Interests: Time series econometrics, macroeconomics, energy markets, urban economies and emerging markets as well as the main financial asset classes: equities, currencies, fixed income and derivatives

  • Itzik Fadlon

    Itzik Fadlon

    Ph.D., Harvard University, 2015
    Associate Professor 
    Research Groups: Public Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics 
    Research Interests: Public finance, health economics, and labor economics

  • Melissa Famulari

    Melissa Famulari

    Ph.D., University of Washington, 1987
    Teaching Professor (SLSOE)
    Research Groups: Labor Economics, Health Economics
    Research Interests: Economics of education and learning

  • Marjorie Flavin

    Marjorie Flavin

    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
    Professor Emeritus
    Research Interests: Macroeconomics, especially macro/housing, household consumption, portfolio allocation, and asset pricing

  • Simone Galperti

    Simone Galperti

    Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2013
    Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Mechanisms design, contract theory, and behavioral economics

  • Alexander Gelber

    Alexander Gelber

    Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008
    Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Social insurance, taxation, labor supply, retirement
  • Roger Gordon

    Roger Gordon

    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976
    Professor Emeritus & Research Professor
    Research Interests: Taxes and corporate dividend policy, choice of personal tax base, taxes and development

  • Josh Graff Zivin

    Josh Graff Zivin

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1998
    Professor
    Research Groups: Environment and Resource Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Health Economics
    Research Interests: Innovation, economics of pollution, human capital, climate change, public policy

  • Aram Grigoryan

    Aram Grigoryan

    Ph.D., Duke University, 2022
    Assistant Teaching Professor
    Research Interests: Market design, matching theory
  • Theodore Groves

    Theodore Groves

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
    Professor Emeritus
    Research Interests: Environmental economics, mechanism design, public finance

  • James D. Hamilton

    James D. Hamilton

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1983
    Robert F. Engle Endowed Chair in Econometrics, Professor
    Research Groups: Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Finance 
    Research Interests: Economic fluctuations

  • Juan Herreño

    Juan Herreño

    Ph.D., Columbia University, 2020
    Assistant Professor
    Research Groups: Macroeconomics
    Research Interests: Macroeconomics, monetary economics

  • Mark Jacobsen

    Mark Jacobsen

    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007
    Professor
    Research Groups: Environment and Resource Economics
    Research Interests: Energy economics, transportation, climate change

  • Nir Jaimovich

    Nir Jaimovich

    Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2004
    Anonymous Family Chancellor Endowed Chair in Macroeconomics, Professor 
    Research Groups: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, International Economics 
    Research Interests: Macroeconomics, labor economics

  • Sara Lowes

    Sara Lowes

    • Ph.D., Harvard University, 2017
    • Assistant Professor
    • Research Interests: Culture, institutions, gender
  • Xinwei Ma

    Xinwei Ma

    Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2019
    Assistant Professor 
    Research Groups: Econometrics
    Research Interests: Non/Semiparametric econometrics, causal inference, program evaluation

  • Mark J. Machina

    Mark J. Machina

    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
    Professor Emeritus
    Research Interests: Choice under uncertainty, alternative models of risk preferences and beliefs

  • Katherine Meckel

    Katherine Meckel

    Ph.D., Columbia University, 2015
    Assistant Professor 
    Research Groups: Public Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics 
    Research Interests: Anti-poverty transfers, health outcomes

  • Marc Muendler

    Marc Muendler

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002
    Professor
    Research Interests: International trade, foreign investment and multinational enterprises, productivity estimation, information economics

  • Karthik Muralidharan

    Karthik Muralidharan

    Ph.D., Harvard University, 2007
    Tata Chancellor's Endowed Professorship in Economics, Professor
    Research Groups: Development Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics 
    Research Interests: Education, health, social protection programs, state capacity, field experiments

  • Paul Niehaus

    Paul Niehaus

    Ph.D., Harvard University, 2009
    Associate Professor
    Research Groups: Development Economics, Political Economics, Behavioral/Experimental Economics 
    Research Interests: The design, implementation, and impact of anti-poverty programs; large-scale experimentation

  • Garey Ramey

    Garey Ramey

    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987
    Professor Emeritus
    Research Groups: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Econometrics 
    Research Interests: Fiscal policy, business cycles, time use

  • Valerie A. Ramey

    Valerie A. Ramey

    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987
    Professor
    Research Interests: Trends in time use, leisure, home production, government spending, inventories

  • James E. Rauch

    James E. Rauch

    Ph.D., Yale University, 1985
    Professor
    Research Groups: International Economics, Development Economics, Industrial Organization 
    Research Interests: Entrepreneurship

  • Giacomo Rondina

    Giacomo Rondina

    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
    Associate Teaching Professor (LSOE), Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies
    Research Interests: Macroeconomic theory, international macroeconomics
  • Denis Shishkin

    Denis Shishkin

    Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020
    Assistant Professor 
    Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral/Experimental Economics
    Research Interests: Information economics, mechanism design, information design

  • Joel Sobel

    Joel Sobel

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1978
    Professor 
    Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral/Experimental Economics
    Research Interests: Game theory

  • Ross Starr

    Ross Starr

    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1972
    Professor Emeritus & Research Professor
    Research Interests: General equilibrium theory, foundations of monetary theory, non-convex economies, liquidity of financial markets

  • Yixiao Sun

    Yixiao Sun

    Ph.D., Yale University, 2002
    Professor
    Research Groups: Econometrics, Finance 
    Research Interests: Econometrics, causal inference, machine learning

  • Allan Timmermann

    Allan Timmermann

    Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1992
    Professor
    Research Interests: Predictability of stock returns, forecasting methods, structural breaks in time series, performance evaluation for mutual funds and pension funds

  • Alexis Akira Toda

    Alexis Akira Toda

    Ph.D., Yale University, 2013
    Associate Professor 
    Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Finance, Econometrics
    Research Interests: Power law in economics and finance, mathematical economics, computational economics

  • Isabel Trevino

    Isabel Trevino

    Ph.D., New York University, 2014
    Associate Professor
    Research Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory
    Research Interests: Information economics, game theory, choice-process data

  • Fabian Trottner

    Fabian Trottner

    Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020
    Assistant Professor
    Research Groups: International Economics, Macroeconomics, Labor Economics
    Research Interests: International trade, labor demand and income inequality, structural change and growth

  • Emanuel Vespa

    Emanuel Vespa

    Ph.D., New York University, 2012
    Associate Professor
    Research Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory
    Research Interests: Mistakes in decision-making, information processing, determinants of cooperation

  • Tom Vogl

    Tom Vogl

    • Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
    • Associate Professor, Director of Instruction
    • Research Interests: Development, demography, health, human capital, political economy
  • Joel Watson

    Joel Watson

    Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1992
    Professor
    Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Law & Economics, Political Economics, Environment and Resource Economics 
    Research Interests: Game theoretic foundations and analysis of contractual settings, with applications in labor/macro, environmental, international, and law

  • Michelle White

    Michelle White

    Ph.D., Princeton University, 1973
    Professor Emeritus & Research Professor

  • Johannes Wieland

    Johannes Wieland

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2013
    Distinguished Endowed Chair in Macroeconomics and Public Finance, Associate Professor
    Research Groups: Macroeconomics, International Economics, Finance 
    Research Interests: Monetary economics, international economics, economic history, household finance

  • Steve Pak Yeung Wu

    Steve Pak Yeung Wu

    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020
    Assistant Professor
    Research Groups: International Economics, Macroeconomics, Finance 
    Research Interests: International macroeconomics 

  • Kaspar Wuthrich

    Kaspar Wuthrich

    Ph.D., University of Bern, 2015
    Associate Professor
    Research Groups: Econometrics 
    Research Interests: Quantile methods, iv methods, difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods, mL methods for prediction and inference, inference in experiments, detecting p-hacking and publication bias

  • Ying Zhu

    Ying Zhu

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
    Assistant Professor
    Research Interests: High-dimensional estimation and Inference, Nonasymptotic Statistics, Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods, panel data analysis, integration of economic models, machine learning, and operations research
  • Dale Squires

    Dale Squires

    Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984
    Adjunct Professor, NOAA Southwest Fisheries
    Research Interests: Squires specializes in resource economics, fisheries in particular.

  • Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León

    Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León

    Affiliate
    Ph.D., Finance, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
    Assistant Professor, Rady School of Management
    Research Interests: Equitable finance, corporate and household finance
  • Joseph Engelberg

    Joseph Engelberg

    Affiliate
    Ph.D. (Finance), Northwestern University, 2009
    Professor, Rady School of Management
    Research Interests: Asset pricing, behavioral finance information diffusion, media, networks

  • Kyle Handley

    Kyle Handley

    Affiliate
    Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2011
    Associate Professor, Rady School of Management
    Research Interests: International trade, investment, uncertainty and firm employment dynamics
  • James Hilger

    James Hilger

    Affiliate
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006
    Asst. Adjunct Professor, NOAA Southwest Fisheries
    Research Interests: Fisheries, non-market valuation, and marketing.

  • Ruixue Jia

    Ruixue Jia

    Affiliate
    Ph.D., Stockholm University, 2013
    Associate Professor, GPS

  • Craig McIntosh

    Craig McIntosh

    Affiliate
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003
    Professor, GPS

  • Dimitri Politis

    Dimitri Politis

    Affiliate
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990
    Professor, Mathematics

  • Krislert Samphantharak

    Krislert Samphantharak

    Affiliate
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003
    Associate Professor, GPS
    Research Interests: Household finance in developing economies, corporate finance, corporate governance, business groups, family business, economic development of southeast asia