The Department of Economics is housed within Barry Kaye 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
We congratulate Eric Chiang who was promoted to Associate Professor
We are delighted to announce that Kuntal Banerjee, PhD Cornell Univ, will be joining the Department of Economics this fall as an Assistant Professor of Economics
July 2008
Paper by Eric Chiang "Estimating the willingness to pay for digital music" (with D. Assane) is forthcoming in Contemporary Economic Policy. Another paper by Eric Chiang "Telecommunications competition, rate‐rebalancing, and consumer welfare in Nepal" (with S. Hada) is forthcoming in the International Journal of Business Research.
May 2008
Book by Emeritus Professor William B. Stronge "The Sunshine Economy: An Economic History of Florida since the Civil War" has just been released
Suman Ghosh presented the paper "Product Market Competition and Upstream Innovation: Theory and Empirical Evidence from US Electricity Deregulation" (Joint with Paroma Sanyal) at the 6th International Industrial Organization Conference in Washington, DC
Paper by Vadym Volosovych "Why Doesn't Capital Flow From Rich To Poor Countries: An Empirical Investigation" (with Laura Alfaro and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan) appears in Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2008, vol. 90, iss. 2, pp. 347-368
April 2008
Robert Jividen, an economics major, is the winner of this year’s Stan and Renee Wimberly Scholar award. The scholarship is one of the top honors the university awards. He is the first student from the College of Business to win the award since 1974.
March 2008
Suman Ghosh presented the paper "Ratings of charities and contributions" (with Vidhi Chhaochharia) at the Royal Economic Society 2008 Conference.
Paper by Monica Escaleras and Charles Register (with N. Anbarci) "Traffic Fatalities: Does Income Inequality Create an Externality?" has been accepted for publication in Canadian Journal of Economics.
Paper by Sharmila Vishwasrao (with H. Benchekroun) "On welfare reducing technological change in a North-South framework" was accepted for publication in Oxford Economic Papers.
Paper by Vadym Volosovych "Gains from Financial Integration in the European Union: Evidence for New and Old Members" (with Yuliya Demyanyk) appears in Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 27, iss. 2, March 2008.
January 2008
Paper by Haichun Ye "Twin sons of different mothers: the long and short of the twin deficits debate" (with Kevin Grier) is accepted for publication by Economic Inquiry.
Paper by Suman Ghosh "Male Wages and Female Welfare: Public Goods, Private
Markets, and Intrahousehold Inequality" (with Ravi Kanbur) appears in Oxford Economic Papers, January 2008, vol. 60 , iss. 1
Suman Ghosh presented the paper "Job Characteristics and Labor Market Discrimination in Promotions: New Theory and Empirical Evidence" (with Jed Devaro) and Vadym Volosovych presented the papers "Explaining Cross-Country Differences in International Income Smoothing" and "Financial Market Integration Over the Long Run: Is there a U-shape?" at AEA-ASSA 2008 Annual Meeting, New Orleans LA
