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Faculty and Research

We concentrate our resources on just a few fields in economics and we excel in those fields. We’ve long been known for our research in experimental economics and in economic history, and we continue to be a world leader in both fields. We’ve recently built one of the world’s best young faculty groups in industrial organization. And we have a smaller but superb group in labor economics. Cutting across these research areas are the department’s strengths in microeconometrics, microeconomic theory, and game theory.

The department’s relatively small faculty has published hundreds of research papers, including several dozen articles in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Journal of Political Economy.

More than half the department’s faculty members currently hold or have recently held research grants from such organizations as the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and others.

The department’s research consistently earns national and international awards. Department faculty members or graduate students have recently been awarded the 2004 Royal Economic Society Prize, the 2001 Richard Lester Prize, the 2004 Nevins Prize, and the 2004 AAEA Prize for the year’s best doctoral dissertation in resource economics or agricultural economics.

Faculty

Rabah Amir (Ph.D., University of Illinois (Urbana), 1985).
Professor.
Industrial Organization, Microeconomics, Game Theory, Uncertainty and Economic Dynamics.

Manuela Angelucci (Ph.D., University College London, 2004).
Assistant Professor.
Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Development Economics.

Anna Breman (Ph.D., Stockholm School of Economics, 2006).
Assistant Professor.
Behavioral Economics, Experiments, Public Finance.

John Z. Drabicki (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1974).
Associate Professor of Economics and Assistant Department Chairman.
Macroeconomics, International Economics, and Applied Microeconomic Theory.

Martin Dufwenberg (Ph.D., Uppsala University, 1995).
Eller Professor and Director of the Institute for Behavioral Economics.
Game Theory, Experiments, Behavioral Economics.

Price V. Fishback (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1983).
Frank and Clara Kramer Professor.
Economic History and Labor Economics.

Jonah B. Gelbach (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998).
Associate Professor.
Law and Economics, Public Economics and Empirical Microeconomics.

Gautam Gowrisankaran (Ph.D., Yale University, 1995).
Associate Professor.
Industrial Organization, Health Economics and Applied Econometrics.

Keisuke Hirano (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1998).
Associate Profesor and APS Fellow.
Econometrics.

Cathleen A. Johnson (Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute & state University, 2000).
Lecturer.
Experimental Economics, Networks, Public Policy and Labor Economics.

James C. McBrearty (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1968).
Associate Professor.
Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, and Employment Law.

Ronald L. Oaxaca (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1971).
McClelland Professor.
Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Applied Microeconomics.

David E. Pingry (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1971).
Professor of Management Information Systems and Economics.

Paul Portney (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1973).
Dean, Eller College of Management and Professor of Economics.

Stanley S. Reynolds (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1983).
SRP Professor of Technology, Public Policy and Markets and Vice Dean.
Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomic Theory, and Experimental Economics.

Kenneth R. Smith (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1968).
Eller Distinguished Service Professor.
Microeconomics and Health Economics.

Mark Stegeman (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987).
Associate Professor of Economics.
Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Industrial Organization.

Alexandre Borges Sugiyama (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1998).
Lecturer.
Applied Economics and Finance.

Gerald J. Swanson (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1971).
Professor; Thomas R. Brown Chair in Economic Education
Public Finance, Economic Education, and Health Economics.

Mark Walker (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1970).
Eller Professor of Economics and Department Chairman.
Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory and Experimental Economics.

John Wooders (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1992).
Eller Professor and Director of the Economic Science Laboratory.
Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, and Experimental Economics.

Jianjun Wu (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2005).
Assistant Professor of Economics.
Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Business Strategy, Economics of Information

Mo Xiao (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2003).
Assistant Professor of Economics.
Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

Associated Faculty

Katherine Y. Barnes (College of Law)
Dean Lueck (Agricultural & Resource Economics)
Amnon Rapoport (Management & Organizations)
David J. Schmidtz (Philosophy)
Ronald J. Vogel (College of Pharmacy)

Adjunct Faculty

Thomas Dalton
Steven Reff
David Vanderford

Emeritus Faculty

R. Bruce Billings
Michael K. Block
John E. Buehler
James C. Cox
Donald Heckerman
Bernard P. Herber
Jimmye S. Hillman
Gary D. Libecap
Robert H. Marshall
Michael Rieber
Lester D. Taylor
Gordon Tullock
Donald A. Wells
Edward E. Zajac

 

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