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Professorial Lecturer

Department Chair, Economics

Professor Blecker’s research interests include international trade, open economy macroeconomics, the value of the dollar and the US trade deficit, economic integration in North America, the Mexican economy, the limits to export-led growth strategies ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Bono's research is in the development of statistical models of strategic behavior. He is particularly focused on integrating results from behavioral economics with machine learning techniques to construct predictive models that are computat... [More]

Professor

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Professor Dittmar’s research interests include the institutional and technological determinants of economic growth, economic history, political economy, and economic geography. Check personal web-page link for more information.

Professor

Professor Feinberg received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD from the University of Virginia. He taught for ten years on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University, has served as an economist with the Antitrust Division of the De... [More]

Associate Professor

Maria Sagrario Floro dissertation was published into a book (co-authored) entitled Informal Rural Credit Markets and the New Institutional Economics: The Case of Philippine Agriculture (1991). From the time she was in college, she has been interested... [More]

Professor

Professor Golan directs the Info-Metrics Institute at AU. His main area of research is information, information processing and optimal decision rules based on efficient use of information (Info-Metrics).

Economist in Residence

Professor Grown is currently on detail as Senior Gender Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she leads the agency's efforts to integrate broader gender issues in foreign assistance. She teaches Econ 575- Gender Perspectives... [More]

Associate Professor

Mary Eschelbach Hansen is widely published in the fields of child welfare policy and economic history. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Institu... [More]

Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor

Alan Isaac is working in agent-based modeling with applications to the intergenerational transmission of wealth and to epidemiology. He also does research in Post Keynesian macroeconomics, broadly defined.

Economist-in-Residence

Professor

Professor Lerman conducts research and publishes on employment, income support, and youth development, especially as they affect low-income populations. In the 1970s, he worked on reforming the nation’s income maintenance programs and on youth employ... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Professor Lin's research interests include the industrial organization of entertainment industries, the theory of the firm, and the antitrust implications of various theories of competition.He has taught classes in Principles of Microeconomics, Princ... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Economist -in-Residence

Subodh Mathur is an economist (PhD MIT) with strong conceptual and quantitative skills, and wide-ranging international and US operational experience. He taught graduate Econometrics and Economic Development at the American University, Washington, D.C... [More]

Professor

Professor Meurs has recently taught Comparative Systems, Heterodox Microeconomics, Transition Economies, the Economics of Gender, and the Doctoral Dissertation Seminar.

Associate Professor

Distinguished Economist in Residence

Dr. Arturo Porzecanski, Distinguished Economist-in-Residence, is an expert in international finance, emerging markets and Latin American economics. He previously taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Williams College, but is a late ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Natalia Radtchenko’s areas of specialization are microeconometrics, labor economics, and public policy evaluation. Recent publications have been featured in Economie et Prevision, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Population Economics, Labor Ec... [More]

Associate Professor

Prof. Reynolds joined the department in 2003 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include the political economy of trade protection, particularly antidumping protection, and the impact of trade liberalizati... [More]

Professor

Professor Sawers teaching interests are: Economic development and U.S. Economic History

Assistant Professor

Xuguang (a.k.a. Simon) Sheng is an Assistant Professor of Economics at American University. His research interests include econometric theory, applied econometrics, empirical macroeconomics, economic and financial forecasting. He has published in Jou... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Sonenshine’s research and teaching interests include antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, international trade and finance, and economic history.

Associate Professor

Professor Starr's research interests are consumption, saving, wealth, macroeconomics, monetary policy, developing and emerging-market countries, and social economics.

Professor

Professor Willoughby has recently returned from a two-year stay in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates where he helped create an undergraduate economics program at the new American University of Sharjah. He has also taught at the American University in Cai... [More]

Associate Professor

Professor Winters’ research interests include impact evaluation of development projects, rural poverty, migration and remittances, fertility, cash transfer programs in developing countries, rural livelihood strategies, tourism and smallholder agricul... [More]

Professor

Professor Wisman teaching interests are: History of Economic Thought, Methodology, History, Introductory Macroeconomics.

Assistant Professor

Professor Yesuf’s research interests include poverty, environment and development issues in low income countries, with a special focus on households’ behavioral issues (such as risk aversion). He has an international teaching and research experience ... [More]