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
January 2010
Paper by Kuntal Banerjee "Equivalence of Utilitarian Maximal and Weakly Maximal
Programs" (with Tapan Mitra) has been accepted for publication by
the Journal of Mathematical Economics.
December 2009
We congratulate Bill Bosshardt who was elected a president-elect of the National Association of Economic Educators.
Paper by Sharmila Vishwasrao "Physician Quality and Health Care for the Poor and Uninsured" (with Lara Gardner) has been accepted for publication in the Inquiry.
Paper by Monica Escaleras and Charles Register "Freedom of Information Acts and Public Sector Corruption" (with Shu Lin) has been accepted for publication by Public Choice.
November 2009
Monica Escaleras presented her paper "Natural Disasters and Fiscal Decentralization" (with Charles A. Register) at the 79th Annual Meetings of the Southern Economic Association.
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 Hassan Benchekroun) 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
