Faculty and Staff
Associate Professor
- Ph. D: Michigan State University
- Fields of Interest: International Trade; Economic Growth and Development; Applied Econometrics
- Topics of Research: Applied international trade; The causes and consequences of trade agreements; Economic growth
Professor
- Ph. D: Rutgers University
- Fields of Interest: Economic History; Law and Economics
- Topics of Research: U.S. Banking and Financial History; Historical Political Economy; African American Economic History; Economics of Crime
Kathryn Boys
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: Purdue University
- Fields of Interest: Economic Devlopment, International Trade,
- Topics of Research:
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: North Carolina State University
- Fields of Interest: Applied Econometrics, Consumer Demand Modeling
- Topics of Research: Food Demand in the United States and Latin America, The Economics and Impact of Agricultural Promotion Programs
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: Vanderbilt University
- Fields of Interest: Economic History; Demographic Economics; Labor Economics; Anthropometric History
- Topics of Research: Anthropometric Evidence on Human Welfare; Changes in Marriage Institutions Over Time
Professor
- Ph. D: University of Chicago
- Fields of Interest: Political Economy; Public Finance; Monetary Theory; Applied Microeconomics
- Topics of Research: Applied Microeconomics; Fiscal Policy and Hyperinflation
Molly Espey
Professor
- Ph. D: UC Davis
- Fields of Interest: Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Policy
- Topics of Research:
Robert K. Fleck
Professor
- Ph. D: Stanford University
- Fields of Interest: Political Economy, Public Finance; Economic History, Development Economics
- Topics of Research: Governance, The Great Depression, Moral & Ethical Economics
David B. Gordon
Professor Emeritus
- Ph. D: University of Chicago
- Fields of Interest: Monetary Theory; Applied Microeconomics
- Topics of Research: Theories of the Price Level and Hyperinflations; Effects of Monetary Policy
Associate Professor
- Ph. D: University of Chicago
- Fields of Interest: Industrial Organization; Law and Economics; Property Rights
- Topics of Research: Economics of Governance, Cinema, & Sports
Olga Isengildina-Massa
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: Mississippi State University
- Fields of Interest: Financial Economics, Pricing & Marketing
- Topics of Research: Forecast Evaluation, Risk Management and Modeling
Associate Professor
- Ph. D: Brown University
- Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics; Economic Growth
- Topics of Research: Growth Transitions; Medium-Term Growth; Wage Inequality
Jaclyn Kropp
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: Cornell University
- Fields of Interest: Agricultural Policy, Financial Economics, Experimental Economics
- Topics of Research:
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: University of Minnesota
- Fields of Interest: Empirical Industrial Organization; Applied Microeconomics; Applied Econometrics; Organizational Economics
- Topics of Research: Procurement Auctions; Subcontracting and Incomplete Contracts; Estimation of Dynamic Games; Housing Demand
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: University of Chicago
- Fields of Interest: Development; Growth; Climate Change
- Topics of Research: Financial Development; Corruption
Professor
- Ph. D: Stanford University
- Fields of Interest: Labor Economics; Applied Econometrics; Economic Demography
- Topics of Research: Human Capital; Labor Supply; Fertility; Migration; Development; Microeconometrics
Professor and Department Chair
- Ph. D: University of Washington
- Fields of Interest: Industrial Organization; Economics of Regulation; Economics of Sports
- Topics of Research: Managerial Strategy; Organization of Sport
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
- Ph. D: SUNY-Binghamton
- Fields of Interest: Labor Economics; Urban Economics
- Topics of Research: Urban Growth; City Fertility Differentials; Adjustment of Labor Markets Across Cities; Dynamics of Military Attrition and Promotion; GI Bill Use
Webb M. Smathers
Professor
- Ph. D: University of Kentucky
- Fields of Interest: Natural Resource Economics, Wildlife Economics
- Topics of Research:
Professor
- Ph. D: University of Chicago
- Fields of Interest: Human Capital; Economic Growth and Development
- Topics of Research: Long Run Economic Growth; Fertility; Education
Scott Templeton
Associate Professor
- Ph. D: UC Berkeley
- Fields of Interest: Agricultural, Environmental, & Natural Resource Economics
- Topics of Research: Decision-Support Tools for Farmers, Adaptation to Climate Change, Urban Forestry, Storm Water Management
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: Princeton University
- Fields of Interest: Industrial Organization; Antitrust Policy; Microeconomic Theory
- Topics of Research: Theory and Experiments Involving Static or Dynamic Competition, especially the Strategic Implications of Asymmetries in Costs, Information, or Capabilities
J. Wilson Newman Professor and BB&T Senior Fellow
- Ph. D: University of Virginia
- Fields of Interest: History of Economic Thought; Public Choice
- Topics of Research: Political Economy; Economics of Religion; Economics of Sports
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: University of Chicago
- Fields of Interest: Industrial Organization; Political Economy; Natural Resource Economics
- Topics of Research: Causes and Consequences of Political Competitiveness; Resource Endowments and Political Competition
William A. Ward
Professor
- Ph. D: Michigan State University
- Fields of Interest: Economic Development, Energy Economics, Environmental Economics
- Topics of Research: Cost-benefit analysis applications to energy efficiency and low-carbon growth investment planning
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Fields of Interest: Political Economy; Organizational Economics
- Topics of Research: Decision-making in Public Sector Organizations; Auditing and Political Accountability; The Effect of Parties on Policies in the Legislature
David B. Willis
Associate Professor
- Ph. D: Washington State University
- Fields of Interest: Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics
- Topics of Research:
Professor
- Ph. D: Brown University
- Fields of Interest: Econometrics; Empirical Microeconomics
- Topics of Research: Non-Parametric Estimation and Inference; Resampling Methods; Production Efficiency; Analysis of Banking and Hospital Industries; Health Economics; Urban Transportation; Education in Transitioning Economies
Assistant Professor
- Ph. D: Harvard University
- Fields of Interest: Game Theory; Behavioral Economics
- Topics of Research: Norms for Informal Property Rights; Content of Deceptive Speech; Altruism
Emeritus Faculty
Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Ph. D: UCLA
- Fields of Interest: Applied Price Theory; Economic History
- Topics of Research: Economic History of the British Navy; 1660-1815; Political Economy of Taxation
Cotton M. Lindsay
Newman Professor Emeritus
- Ph. D: University of Virginia
- Fields of Interest: Contracts and organizational structures with incomplete information and market equilibria with constrained prices
- Topics of Research:
Michael T. Maloney
Professor Emeritus
- Ph. D: Louisiana State University
- Fields of Interest: Applied Price Theory; Financial Economics; Industrial Organization
- Topics of Research: Price Discovery in Asset Markets; Pharmaceutical Innovation; Economics and Religious Schism
Robert E. McCormick
Professor Emeritus and BB&T Scholar
- Ph. D: Texas A&M University
- Fields of Interest: Antitrust Economics; Economics of Regulation; Economics of Sports; Environmental Economics; Public Choice
- Topics of Research: Organization and Innovation
Dennis L. Placone
Professor Emeritus
- Ph. D: University of Pittsburgh
- Fields of Interest: Money and Banking; Macroeconomics
- Topics of Research: Economics of Education
Professor Emeritus
- Ph. D: University of Virginia
- Fields of Interest: Economics of tort liability and the valuation of life
- Topics of Research:
Myles S. Wallace
Professor Emeritus
- Ph. D: University of Colorado
- Fields of Interest: International economics and the econometric analysis of time-series data
- Topics of Research:
Professor Emeritus
- Ph. D: North Carolina State University
- Fields of Interest: Labor Economics; Applied Econometrics
- Topics of Research: Economics of Defense; Personnel Economics
T. Bruce Yandle
Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus and BB&T Scholar
- Ph. D: Georgia State University
- Fields of Interest: Political economy; Environmental economics
- Topics of Research:
Staff
Debbie Cornett
Administrative Specialist II
- Phone: 864-656-3481
- Email:
- Office: 228 Sirrine
Kimberly Richardson
Administrative Assistant
- Phone: 864-656-3497
- Email:
- Office: 228A Sirrine
