Department of Economics faculty researchers

Land, labor, capital and optimization

The department’s faculty members conduct research in areas such as, regional/urban economics, macroeconomics, international economics, microeconomics, development economics and economic education. Our faculty members regularly publish their research in top-ranked academic journals, serve as presidents of academic associations and are elected as fellows of prestigious economic societies. This expertise translates into high quality instruction at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Mehtabul Azam

Poverty, inequality, mobility, program evaluation, teacher quality

Harounan Kazianga

Field experiments, agriculture, human development, social protection, Sub-Saharan Africa

Qinghe (Sunny) Su

Labor, gender, energy, poverty, inequality

J.B. Kim

Macroeconomics/international macroeconomics, time series econometrics, empirical financial economics, international economics

Wenyi Shen

DSGE models, fiscal policy, applied time series econometrics, international economics

Minhae Kim

Empirical industrial organization, econometrics, applied microeconomics, dynamic discrete games, market structure, antitrust