Economics
Shankha Chakraborty, Department Head
541-346-8845
175 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall
economics@uoregon.edu
Economics addresses the problem of using scarce resources to satisfy society’s unlimited wants. The discipline is divided into two general areas—microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics explores questions about the way society allocates resources; it applies to public policy in such areas as urban, industrial organization, and labor economics. Macroeconomics considers such questions as the causes of inflation and unemployment; it applies to such areas as monetary policy, development and international economics.
Faculty
Laura Bakkensen, Mikesell Professor in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. BA, 2005, Whitman College; MSc, 2007, London School of Economics; MPhil, 2012, PhD, 2014, Yale (2024)
Bruce A. Blonigen, Philip H. Knight Professor (international trade, industrial organization, applied econometrics); Edward Maletis Dean, Lundquist College of Business. BA, 1988, Gustavus Adolphus; MA, 1992, PhD, 1995, California, Davis. (1995)
Alfredo Burlando, associate professor (development, labor economics, industrial organization). BA, 2003, MA, 2003, California, Davis; PhD, 2010, Boston. (2010)
Jose Carreno-Garcia, assistant professor (macroeconomics). BA, 2012, Castilla-La Mancha; M.Phil, 2014, CEMFI; MA, 2016, PhD 2020, Northwestern. (2021)
Shankha Chakraborty, professor (growth and development, macroeconomics). BS, 1992, Presidency; MA, 1994, Delhi School of Economics; PhD, 1999, California, Los Angeles. (1999)
Mark Colas, assistant professor (labor and public). BA, 2009, California, Davis; MS, 2013, PhD, 2017, Wisconsin, Madison. (2017)
Anca D. Cristea, associate professor (international economics, industrial organization, applied econometrics). BA, 2003, Babes-Bolyai; MA, 2005, Clemson; PhD, 2010, Purdue, West Lafayette. (2010)
Jonathan M. V. Davis, assistant professor (applied microeconomics, labor economics). BA, 2009, PhD, 2016, Chicago. (2018)
Timothy A. Duy, assistant professor with title of professor of practice (macroeconomics, monetary policy, international finance); director, Oregon Economic Forum. BA, 1991, Puget Sound; MS, PhD, 1998, Oregon. (2002)
David Evans, associate professor (macroeconomics, computational economics, public finance). BS, 2008, Stanford; PhD, 2015, New York. (2015)
George W. Evans, professor (macroeconomics, econometrics); John Hamacher Chair in Economics. BA, 1972, Oxford; BA, 1974, MA, 1976, PhD, 1980, California, Berkeley. (1994)
Benjamin Hansen, W. E. Miner Professor in Economics (labor economics, public economics, econometrics); associate professor. BA, 2004, Brigham Young; MA, 2005, PhD, 2009, California, Santa Barbara. (2010)
Van Kolpin, professor (microeconomic theory, game theory, social choice theory). BA, 1982, Coe; MS, 1983, MA, 1984, PhD, 1986, Iowa. (1986)
Michael Kuhn, associate professor (behavioral economics, labor, public finance). BA, 2009, California, Los Angeles; PhD, 2014, California, San Diego. (2014)
Bruce McGough, professor (macroeconomics). BA, 1991, Reed; MS, 1993, PhD, 2000, Oregon. (2012)
Keaton Miller, associate professor (industrial organization, health economics, applied econometrics). BS, 2008, Wisconsin, Madison; PhD, 2015, Minnesota, Twin Cities. (2015)
Kathleen Mullen, associate professor and Petrone Chair in Economics (labor economics, public economics, economics of aging, disability, health & retirement). BA, 1999, Virginia; PhD, 2005, Chicago. (2022)
Jeremy M. Piger, professor (macroeconomics, econometrics). BA, 1996, Seattle Pacific; MA, 1998, PhD, 2000, Washington (Seattle). (2006)
Edward A. Rubin, assistant professor (environmental and energy, development economics, econometrics and data science). BS, 2007, MS, 2013, Nebraska, Lincoln; MS, 2015, PhD, 2018, California, Berkeley. (2018)
Michael B. Urbancic, senior instructor (behavioral economics, experimental economics, economic history). BA, BA, BS, 2002, Arizona; MA, 2007, PhD, 2012, California, Berkeley. (2012)
Anne van den Nouweland, professor (game theory, microeconomic theory). BA, 1984, MA, 1989, Nijmegen; PhD, 1993, Tilburg. (1996)
Glen R. Waddell, professor (applied econometrics, industrial organization, labor economics). BS, 1995, Trent; MS, 1996, Miami; PhD, 2000, Purdue. (2001)
Woan Foong Wong, assistant professor (international economics, international trade). BA, BM, 2009, Oberlin; MS, 2013, PhD, 2017, Wisconsin, Madison. (2017)
Jiabin Wu, associate professor (evolutionary game theory, cultural transmission, behavioral economics). BA, 2008, Hong Kong; MS, 2010, PhD, 2014, Wisconsin, Madison. (2014)
Emeriti
Trudy Ann Cameron, professor emerita. BA, 1977, British Columbia; PhD, 1982, Princeton. (2001)
Christopher J. Ellis, professor emeritus. BA, 1978, Essex; MA, 1979, PhD, 1983, Warwick. (1983)
Jo Anna Gray, professor emerita. BA, 1971, Rockford; AM, 1973, PhD, 1976, Chicago. (1989)
William T. Harbaugh, professor emeritus. BS, 1983, MS, 1986, Montana State; PhD, 1995, Wisconsin, Madison. (1995)
Stephen E. Haynes, professor emeritus. BA, 1968, PhD, 1976, California, Santa Barbara. (1978)
Peter J. Lambert, professor emeritus. PhD, 1971, Oxford. (2002)
Joe A. Stone, professor emeritus. BA, 1970, Texas, El Paso; MA, 1974, PhD, 1977, Michigan State. (1979)
Mark A. Thoma, professor emeritus. BA, 1980, California State, Chico; PhD, 1985, Washington State. (1987)
Wesley W. Wilson, professor emeritus. BS, BA, 1980, North Dakota; MA, 1984, PhD, 1986, Washington State. (1989)
The date in parentheses at the end of each entry is the first year on the University of Oregon faculty.