Economics at Bates College

20 faculty and 40 courses in Economics at Bates College.

Faculty

• Michael P. Murray, Charles Franklin Phillips Professor Emeritus of Economics h-index 28
  In poverty, both in the U.S. and abroad. He has written extensively on in-kind transfer programs in the United States and on industrial
  Notable: “Avoiding Invalid Instruments and Coping with Weak Instruments” (2006) · 1,108 citations
• James W. Hughes, Thomas Sowell Professor Emeritus of Economics h-index 23
  Notable: “Litigation and Settlement under the English and American Rules: Theory and Evidence” (1995) · 156 citations
• Daniel Riera-Crichton, Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics h-index 16
  International Finance, Open Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics and Monetary Economics. Selected publications: Economic Shocks, Civil War and Ethnicity (joint with Thorsten Janus). Journal of Development Economics Pitfalls in identificati
  Notable: “Procyclical and countercyclical fiscal multipliers: Evidence from OECD countries” (2014) · 145 citations
• Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Betty Doran Stangle Professor Emerita of Applied Economics h-index 14
  Notable: “Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China” (2011) · 151 citations
• Sandra H. Goff, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 7
  Notable: “A multilevel evolutionary framework for sustainability analysis” (2015) · 145 citations
• Austin C. Smith, Associate Professor of Economics; Economics Chair h-index 6
  Notable: “Spring Forward at Your Own Risk: Daylight Saving Time and Fatal Vehicle Crashes” (2016) · 143 citations
• Leshui He, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 4
  Organizational Economics, Industrial Organization, Corporate Strategy, Law and Economics, and Economics of Education. Education Ph.D. in Economics, University of Connecticut Expertise industrial organization , integration and outsourcing
  Notable: “Discrimination and Social Exclusion in the Outbreak of COVID-19” (2020) · 215 citations
• Paul J. Shea, Dowling Family Professor of Economics h-index 4
  Lie within macroeconomic theory. He is especially interested in the macroeconomic effects of incomplete or faulty information. Two recent papers examine how speculative bubbles can destabilize either the aggregate economy or asset prices. A
  Notable: “Learning by Doing, Short‐sightedness and Indeterminacy” (2012) · 8 citations
• Amanda R. Lindsay, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 3
  Notable: “Evaluating sustainable development policies in rural coastal economies” (2020) · 32 citations
• Samuel S. Bird, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 1
  Notable: “Filling a niche? The maize productivity impacts of adaptive breeding by a local seed company in Kenya” (2022) · 6 citations
• Carl R. Schwinn, Professor Emeritus of Economics h-index 1
  And teaching are in industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, corporate finance, statistics, econometrics, and democratically managed firms. Schwinn served as a staff economist for two years at the Federal Trade Commission in Washi
  Notable: “The Measurement of Returns in Tests of the CAPM” (2010) · 2 citations
• Anamika Sen, Assistant Professor of Economics
  Lie in macrofinance and the economics of gender. Her current research investigates (i) the heterogeneous effects of economic and policy shocks on bank lending behavior, and (ii) the gendered effects of macroeconomic policies. Education PhD
  Notable: “Are all Low-Wage Workers Alike? Heterogeneity in the Post-Pandemic U.S. Labor Market” (2026)
• Anne D. Williams, Professor Emerita of Economics
• Ben Moodie, Visiting Lecturer in Sociology and European Studies
• Curtis S. Morrill, Assistant Professor of Economics
• Edith E. Sallah, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
  Notable: “Household Credit and Bank Equity Returns” (2024)
• Eugene S. Choo, Elmer W. Campbell Professor of Economics
• Pubali Chakraborty, Assistant Professor of Economics
• Sam Stelnicki, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
• Xinhao Wang, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

Courses

• Applied Principles of Economics ECON 150
• Environmental Economics ECON 153
• The Global Economy: Trade, Finance, and Policy ECON 154
• Economics of Financial Markets ECON 155
• Unemployment, Inflation, and Wealth ECON 156
• Economics of Inequality ECON 160
• Money and Magic: Anthropological Exploration of Contemporary Capitalism ECON 231
• Understanding Poverty: Introduction to Development Economics ECON 246
• Statistics ECON 250
• Econometrics ECON 255
• Intermediate Microeconomic Theory ECON 260
• Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory ECON 270
• The Political Economy of Capitalism ECON 284
• Economic Analysis for Non-Profits ECON 301
• Macroeconomic Finance ECON 304
• Economics of Strategies in Firms and Markets ECON 306
• Women and Economic Development ECON 308
• Economics of Less-Developed Countries ECON 309
• Public Economics ECON 311
• A Tale of Two Recessions: 2008 and 2020 ECON 313
• Advanced Macroeconomics ECON 318
• Advanced Econometrics ECON 320
• Prices, Property, and the Problem of the Commons ECON 325
• Economic Development and Political Economy ECON 326
• Monetary Economics and Forecasting ECON 328
• Labor Economics ECON 331
• Behavioral Economics ECON 337
• Labor Economics and Policy ECON 338
• Industrial Organization ECON 339
• Time Series Econometrics ECON 341
• Economics of the Family ECON 342
• International Finance ECON 343
• Finance and Society ECON 344
• Computational Macroeconomics ECON 351
• Financial Economics ECON 352
• Economics of Artificial Intelligence ECON 353
• Data Science for Economists ECON 368
• Experimental Economics ECON 372
• The Economics of Crime, Punishment, and Rehabilitation ECON 373
• Senior Thesis Seminar ECON 456

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.