Faculty and Staff

 

Program Director: Tamah Morant
Assistant Director: Valarie James
Student Services Coordinator:  Robin Carpenter

The economics faculty has a national reputation for excellence in research.  Current faculty have published in the top general interest economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and Review of Economics and Statistics.  Faculty have also contributed to many other leading journals, including American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economic Inquiry, Economic Theory, Econometric Reviews, Econometric Theory, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business,  Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Labor, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.  

Economics Graduate Programs Faculty:

Steve Allen, labor economics
professor, economics and business management and associate dean, graduate programs and research

Geoff Benson, dairy production and marketing
extension specialist, agricultural and resource economics

Jon Brandt, agricultural economics
professor and department head, agricultural and resource economics

A. Blake Brown, agricultural economics
Hugh C. Kiger Professor, agricultural and resource economics

Mehmet Caner, econometrics, international finance
professor of economics

Robert L. Clark, labor economics, economics of aging, pension and retirement policies
professor of economics

Lee Craig, economic history
professor of economics

David A. Dickey, time series
professor of statistics and associate member, economics faculty

Edmund A. Estes, vegetable crop production and markets
professor, associate head and departmental extension leader, agricultural and resource economics

Paul L. Fackler, agricultural price analysis and marketing
associate professor, agricultural and resource economics

David Flath, industrial organization, japanese economy
professor of economics

JP Gervais, agricultural economics
associate professor, agricultural and resource economics

Barry Goodwin, international trade
professor, agricultural and resource economics

Tom Grennes, international and monetary economics
professor, economics

Pablo Guerron, international and monetary economics
assistant professor, economics

Robert Hammond, microeconomics
assistant professor, economics

Alvin E. Headen, Jr., health economics
associate professor, economics

David Hyman, public finance
professor and Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor

Atsushi Inoue, econometrics
professor, agricultural and resource economics

Ivan Kandilov, international trade
assistant professor, agricultural and resource economics

Charles Knoeber, industrial organization
professor, economics

John Lapp, monetary economics
professor, economics

Asli Leblebicioglu, macroeconomics
assistant professor, economics

Steve Margolis, industrial organization
professor, economics

Michele Marra, natural resource and environmental economics
professor, agricultural and resource economics

Michael McElroy, macroeconomics,
associate professor, economics

Tamah Morant, applied microeconomics, economics of education, household economics
teaching assistant professor and director, graduate programs

Melinda Morrill, labor economics, health economics, economic demography, applied economics
research assistant professor

Thayer Morrill, microeconomics, game theory
assistant professor, economics

Craig Newmark, industrial organization
associate professor, economics

Arnold W. Oltmans, agricultural finance
professor, agricultural and resource economics

Ray Palmquist, natural resource and environmental economics
professor, economics

Doug Pearce, monetary economics
professor and department head, economics

Denis Pelletier, econometrics
assistant professor, economics

Daniel J. Phaneuf, environmental and resource economics
associate professor, agricultural and resource economics

Nicholas E. Piggott, agricultural and resource economics
associate professor, agricultural and resource economics

Mitchell Renkow, agricultural economics
professor, agricultural and resource economics

Michael Roberts, agricultural economics
assistant professor, agricultural and resource economics

Charles D. Safley, tree fruit production and marketing
professor, agricultural and resource economics

John Seater, macroeconomics
professor, economics

Laura Taylor, environmental and resource economics
professor, agricultural and resource economics; director, Center for Environmental and Resource Economics Policy

Wally Thurman, demand analysis, poultry industry
professor, economics

Theofanis Tsoulouhas, microeconomics
associate professor, economics

Roger van Haefen, environmental and resource economics
assistant professor, agricultural and resource economics

Tomislav Vukina, livestock and poultry markets
professor, agricultural and resource economics

Michael L. Walden, consumer economics
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor, agricultural and resource economics

Walter Wessels, labor economics
professor, economics

Michael K. Wohlgenant, agricultural markets
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor, agricultural and resource economics

Kelly Zering, swine production and marketing
professor, agricultural and resource economics

Xiaoyong Zheng, industrial organization
assistant professor, agricultural and resource economics