The Department of Economics is housed within the College of Business, offering both bachelors and masters degree programs in economics.
TEACHING
Students pursuing degrees in economics are trained for careers in many fields, including banking, government, data analysis, and more. A degree in economics provides a solid foundation for students pursuing further graduate work, including law school, the MBA, and PhD programs. In addition, our students benefit by learning current and cutting-edge economic theory and applications that will enhance the overall quality of their education. The faculty and department are committed to assisting students achieve quality jobs or graduate school placement after completing their programs at FAU. We invite you to visit Graduate Program and Undergraduate Program pages for more information.
RESEARCH
The economics faculty comprises fourteen professors with PhDs from Cornell, Florida, Florida International, George Washington, Houston, Purdue, Maryland, Texas and other top universities, along with a staff of well-trained instructors, visiting faculty, and secretarial assistants. The main objective of the department is to push the frontier of economics by publishing high quality work in top-level publications. Such accomplishments have already been noted, with faculty publishing in leading journals such as American Economic Review,the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Southern Economic Journal, and Economics Letters and presenting at prestigious national and international conferences.
WORKING PAPERS Information on the current research of the Department members can be found in our working paper series.
SEMINAR SERIES
We hold a weekly seminar series to promote the intellectual exchange with the graduate students and scholars from outside of the department.
NEWS
September 2009
Paper by Suman Ghosh "Standard Promotion Practices versus Up-or-out Contracts" (with Michael Waldman) is forthcoming in Rand Journal of Economics
July 2009
Paper by Sharmila Vishwasrao "On Welfare Reducing Technological Change in a North-South Framework" (with Benchekroun, Hassan) appears at Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 61(3), July 2009, pp. 603-622.
Paper by Bill Bosshardt "Economics Coursework and Long-Term Behavior and Experiences of College Graduates in Labor Markets and Personal Finance" (with Michael Watts, Sam Allgood and Wilbert van der Klaauw) is accepted for publication by Economic Inquiry.
Paper by Vadym Volosovych "Deep Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Volatility" (with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Bent Sorensen) has been presented at the 2009 NBER Summer Institute in Boston
June 2009
Eric Van Tassel and Suman Ghosh presented at the 2009 Summer Meetings of Econometric Society in Boston. Vadym Volosovych presented at the 2009 Summer Meetings of Econometric Society in Boston and at the 7th INFINITI conference in International Economics and Finance in Dublin (IRELAND).
Eric Chiang won the 2009 Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award from the Florida Atlantic University and Barry Kaye College of Business Stewart Distinguished Professorship Award.
Ky-Hyang Yuhn received the University Employee Service Awards for 15 years of service. We congratulate Dr. Chiang and Dr. Yuhn on their remarkable achievements.
March 2009
Paper by Kuntal Banerjee "Generalized time-invariant overtaking" (co-authored with Geir Asheim and Claude d´Aspremont) is accepted for presentation at the Midwest Economic Theory Meeting 2009 in May
January 2009
Paper by Monica Escaleras and Charles Register "The ill effects of public sector corruption in the water and sanitation sector" (with Nejat Arbarci) is accepted for publication in Land Economics.
