Kara Reynolds Professor CAS - Economics
Prof. Reynolds joined the department in 2003 after completing her PhD at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include the political economy of trade protection, particularly antidumping …
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Robert Berman Adjunct Instructor CAS - Economics
Adjunct at AU and founding principal of Berman Economics, an economics consulting firm specializing in resource economics and financial, economic and market analyses; developing market-based solutions…
Robert Blecker Professor CAS - Economics
Professor Blecker’s research interests include international trade, open economy macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, economic integration in North America, the Mexican economy, the limits to expo…
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Robert Feinberg Professor CAS - Economics
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 …
Luciano Floridi Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Luciano Floridi (www.philosophyofinformation.net) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire – where he holds the Research Chair in Philosophy of Information and the UNESCO Chair in…
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Boris Gershman Assoc Professor CAS - Economics
Boris Gershman has been on the faculty of American University since 2012. Born and raised in Moscow, he came to the United States in 2007 and earned his PhD degree in Economics from Brown University i…
Amos Golan Professor CAS - Economics
Amos Golan directs the Info-Metrics Institute at AU. His main area of research is information, information processing and optimal decision rules bas…
Ignacio Gonzalez Garcia Asst Professor CAS - Economics
Prof. González joined the department in 2017. Before joining AU, he was postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia University. His research focuses on the connections between financial markets and ineq…
Bernhard Gunter Asst Professor CAS - Economics
Dr. Gunter is an international scholar in development economics. His areas of expertise include development macroeconomics, debt sustainability analysis, and the social impact of globalization. He is …
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Winthrop Hambley Adjunct Professorial Lect CAS - Economics
Mary Eschelbach Hansen Professor CAS - Economics
Mary Eschelbach Hansen is an expert in U.S. social policy. She is currently working on issues in disability policy. She is widely published in the fields of child policy, bankruptcy, and economic hist…
Thomas Husted Professor CAS - Economics
My research examines the political economy of various government expenditure programs, including primary and secondary education, income redistribution, and federal disaster aid.
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John Ifediora Adjunct Professor
John Ifediora is a tenured Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin system where he taught for over 25 years, and was a visiting Professor at New York University. He is an economist with …
Alan Isaac Professor CAS - Economics
Alan G. Isaac is working on agent-based models with applications to the intergenerational transmission of wealth and to epidemiology. He also does research in Post Keynesian macroeconomics, broadly de…
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Alison Jacknowitz Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs SPA - Public Admin and Policy
Alison Jacknowitz is the Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of Public Affairs (SPA) at American University and a Professor in the De…
Kelly Jones Asst Professor CAS - Economics
Professor Jones is an applied microeconomist and whose research focuses on evaluating the impacts of various economic policies and interventions on gender equality and welfare. She previously served a…
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Evan Kraft IR Sr Prof Lecturer CAS - Economics
Evan Kraft specializes in the economics of transition, monetary policy and banking issues. He served as Director of the Research Department and Adviser to the Governor of the Croatian National Bank. H…
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Nathan Larson Assoc Professor CAS - Economics
Daniel Lin Professorial Lecturer CAS - Economics
Daniel Lin's areas of research are industrial organization, the theory of the firm, and the economics of political behavior. His focus is on the organizational evolution of the entertainment industrie…
Robin Lumsdaine Professor KSB - Finance and Real Estate
Robin Lumsdaine joined the Kogod School of Business at American University as the Crown Prince of Bahrain Chair in International Finance. She was previously an Associate Director in the Division of Ba…
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Gabriel Mathy Assoc Professor CAS - Economics
My research and teaching interest are currently focused on the macroeconomics of the Great Depression, and on macroeconomics and economic history more generally. I received my PhD and MA degrees from …
Mieke Meurs Professor CAS - Economics
Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Meurs has recently taught Heterodox Microeconomics, Political Economy, and a Complex Problems course called What's It Worth? Her research and publicati…
Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou Asst Professor CAS - Economics
Juan Montecino Asst Professor CAS - Economics
Professor Montecino’s research focuses on the macroeconomic and development consequences of international financial liberalization, as well as issues related to finance and inequality. He obtained his…
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Walter Park Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, CAS CAS - Dean's Office
Walter Park works on the economics of technology, growth, and development. He focuses, in particular, on intellectual property systems, R&D spending, multinational firms, and international knowledge t…
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Natalia Radchenko Asst Professor CAS - Economics
Applied Econometrics Labor Economics
Kara Reynolds Professor CAS - Economics
Prof. Reynolds joined the department in 2003 after completing her PhD at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include the political economy of trade protection, particularly antidumping …
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Shirin Sabetghadam Professorial Lecturer SPA - Public Admin and Policy
Prof. Sabetghadam fields of interest are Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics and Public Policy.Her research areas are finding the effects of different…
Larry Sawers Senior Economist in Residence CAS - Economics
Professor Sawers research interests are Global Health and Economic Development. Much of his recent research has focused on costing health interventions.
Xuguang Sheng Professor CAS - Economics
Xuguang Simon Sheng is a Professor of Economics at American University. His research interests include time series econometrics, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and business cycles. He has published i…
Stephen Silvia Professor SIS - School of International Service
Dr. Stephen Silvia teaches international economics, international relations and comparative politics. He researches comparative labor employment relations, and comparative economic policy, with a focu…
Ralph Sonenshine Sr Professorial Lecturer CAS - Economics
Professor Sonenshine is a Senior Professorial Lecturer of Economics at American University. Ralph combines an academic background in industrial organization, international economics, and economic hist…
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John Willoughby Professor CAS - Economics
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…
Jon Wisman Professor CAS - Economics
Professor Wisman teaching interests are: History of Economic Thought, Methodology, History, Introductory Macroeconomics.His research spans a broad spectrum of domains from history of economic thought …
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Mahmud Yesuf Assoc Professor CAS - Economics
Professor Yesuf’s expertise are development economics, natural resource and environmental economics, and applied micro-econometrics. His research focuses on the interface between economics and natural…
Emeriti Faculty
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- Pham Chi Thanh, phamthanh@aol.com
Scholars in Residence
Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Affiliated with Our Info-Metrics Summer Program
John Geweke, University of Iowa, john-geweke@uiowa.edu
William Greene, New York University, wgreene@stern.nyu.edu
Alastair Hall, University of Manchester & North Carolina State, Alastair.Hall@manchester.ac.uk
Manchester profile
NC State profile
John Rust, University of Maryland, jrust@gemini.econ.umd.edu
Eric Zivot, University of Washington, ezivot@u.washington.edu