Xuguang Sheng Professor CAS | Economics
Xuguang Simon Sheng is a Professor of Economics at American University. He currently serves as the chair of the Department of Economics. His research interests include time series econometrics, machin…
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Juan Antonio Montecino Assistant 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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Maria Esther Caballero Sanchez Assistant Professor CAS | Economics
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Jeff Dickinson Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Economics
Originally from DC (Glover Park), my research focuses on the microeconomics of poverty, and economic development. I received my PhD in development economics from the Graduate Institute of Internationa…
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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 …
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Boris Gershman Associate 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…
Bernhard Gunter Assistant 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 Lecturer 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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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 Interim Dean, School of Public Affairs SPA | Finance & Personnel Administration
Alison Jacknowitz is the Interim Dean of the School of Public Affairs (SPA) at American University and a Professor in the Department of Public Administrati…
Kelly Jones Associate 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 Economist-in-Residence 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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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…
Douglas Little Adjunct Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Economics
Robin Lumsdaine Professor KSB | Finance/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 Associate 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 Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Online Partner Programs (OLP)
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Walter Park Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, CAS CAS | Economics
Walter Park works on the economics of technology, human capital, growth, and international development. He focuses, in particular, on intellectual property systems, R&D, AI, and international knowledg…
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Natalia Radchenko Assistant Professor CAS | Economics
Applied Econometrics Labor Economics
Kara Reynolds Professor and Department Chair, Economics 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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Xuguang Sheng Professor CAS | Economics
Xuguang Simon Sheng is a Professor of Economics at American University. He currently serves as the chair of the Department of Economics. His research interests include time series econometrics, machin…
Stephen Silvia Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
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 Senior 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 Associate 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…
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Maria Sagrario Floro Professor Emerita CAS | Economics
Larry Sawers Senior Economist in Residence CAS - Economics
