40 faculty and 20 courses in Economics at Boston University.
- Kevin Lang, Laurence A. Bloom Professor of Economics h-index 61
Notable: “Phoneme recognition using time-delay neural networks” (1989) · 2,642 citations
- Laurence J. Kotlikoff, William Fairfield Warren Professor of Economics h-index 61
Notable: “Dynamic Fiscal Policy.” (1989) · 1,764 citations
- Raymond Fisman, Slater Family Professor in Behavioral Economics h-index 60
Es primarily on money in politics and corruption. His work has appeared in leading economics journals including the American Economic Review , Journal of Political Economy , and Quarterly Journal of Economics , and it has been widely covere
Notable: “Estimating the Value of Political Connections” (2001) · 3,036 citations
- Robert G. King, Professor h-index 58
Notable: “Finance and Growth: Schumpeter Might Be Right” (1993) · 8,600 citations
- Robert A. Margo, Professor h-index 47
Notable: “The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-Century” (1992) · 777 citations
- Randall P. Ellis, Professor h-index 37
Notable: “Risk adjustment of Medicare capitation payments using the CMS-HCC model.” (2004) · 808 citations
- Joshua Goodman, Associate Professor of Education and Economics h-index 37
On quasi-experimental estimation of the impacts of educational interventions. His overarching goal is to provide rigorous quantitative evidence that illuminates how schools and labor markets work, particularly with respect to postsecondary
Notable: “Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks: Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time” (2020) · 392 citations
- Tarek Hassan, Professor h-index 35
Es on international finance, macro-finance, and social factors in economic growth. Some of his recent papers study the effects of uncertainty on firm behavior and on the allocation of capital across countries. Another set of papers studies
Notable: “Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects*” (2019) · 1,398 citations
- Ivan Fernandez-Val, Professor h-index 34
- Marianne Baxter, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Fiscal Policy in General Equilibrium” (1990) · 1,393 citations
- David Lagakos, Professor h-index 25
Notable: “The Agricultural Productivity Gap *” (2013) · 744 citations
- Christophe Chamley, Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Optimal Taxation of Capital Income in General Equilibrium with Infinite Lives” (1986) · 1,612 citations
- Barton Lipman, Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Provision of Public Goods: Fully Implementing the Core through Private Contributions” (1989) · 534 citations
- Ching-To Albert Ma, Professor h-index 22
In industrial organization, incentives, and health economics. His recent papers study moral hazard due to disability insurance, asymmetric information in physician agency, quality reports and incentives, imperfect competition with selec
Notable: “Health Care Payment Systems: Cost and Quality Incentives” (1994) · 381 citations
- Adam Guren, Associate Professor h-index 19
Notable: “Are Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities Consistent? A Review of Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins” (2011) · 846 citations
- James Feigenbaum, Associate Professor h-index 17
Inequality, intergenerational mobility, health and mortality, and labor markets in the 19th and early 20th century US, spanning cities during the Age of Mass Migration and the epidemiological transition to the postbellum South. He i
Notable: “Automated Linking of Historical Data” (2021) · 192 citations
- Jordi Jaumandreu, Senior Lecturer h-index 16
Notable: “How Does Probability of Innovation Change with Firm Age?” (2004) · 600 citations
- Todd Idson, Master Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Studies h-index 16
Notable: “Workers Are More Productive in Large Firms” (1999) · 290 citations
- Benjamin Marx, Associate Professor h-index 14
Mainly in political economy and development. One strand of his research studies the determinants of political accountability, state capacity, and voting behavior in developing countries. He has worked in various countries including Keny
Notable: “Rapid point-of-care testing for SARS-CoV-2 in a community screening setting shows low sensitivity” (2020) · 205 citations
- Martin Fiszbein, Associate Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of “Rugged Individualism” in the United States” (2020) · 297 citations
- Yuhei Miyauchi, Assistant Professor h-index 13
To understand how socio-economic activity is shaped within cities and across regions. Yuhei tackles these questions using a combination of theory and new sources of granular data, such as cell
Notable: “Structural estimation of pairwise stable networks with nonnegative externality” (2016) · 45 citations
- Hiroaki Kaido, Associate Professor h-index 10
Es on methodological issues surrounding identification and inference in the analysis of partially identified economic models. He also works on the development of robust and computationally attractive inference methods for such settings. Bef
- Gaurab Aryal, Associate Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Testing for collusion in asymmetric first-price auctions” (2012) · 47 citations
- Stefania Garetto, Associate Professor h-index 8
Notable: “Risk, Returns, and Multinational Production*” (2015) · 126 citations
- Masao Fukui, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Notable: “The Macroeconomic Consequences of Exchange Rate Depreciations” (2023) · 39 citations
- Jihye Jeon, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Es on industrial organization. Her recent work investigates the role of demand uncertainty in cyclical investment fluctuations in the container shipping industry. She also studies demand for health insurance and effects of policies that sim
Notable: “Learning and investment under demand uncertainty in container shipping” (2022) · 44 citations
- Joaquin Blaum, Research Associate Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Global Firms in Large Devaluations” (2024) · 35 citations
- Regina Cati, Instructor h-index 6
Notable: “Unit roots in the presence of abrupt governmental interventions with an application to Brazilian data” (1999) · 87 citations
- Krishna Dasaratha, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Learning from Neighbours about a Changing State” (2022) · 16 citations
- Haldun Evrenk, Lecturer h-index 5
Notable: “Social interactions in voting behavior: distinguishing between strategic voting and the bandwagon effect” (2015) · 13 citations
- Ishita Dey, Senior Lecturer h-index 4
Notable: “PRODUCTIVITY AND THE DENSITY OF HUMAN CAPITAL*” (2011) · 149 citations
- Chiara Margaria, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Dynamic communication with biased senders” (2017) · 29 citations
- Benjamin Koskinen, Senior Lecturer
- E. Nilay Kafali, Senior Lecturer
Health care costs and utilization, analyzing changes in market structures, and the economic burden of mental illness. Dr. Kafali has a strong background in applied econometrics and computational methods, including panel data methodo
- Ekaterina Gnedenko, Lecturer
- Hsueh-Ling Huynh, Master Lecturer, Director of Master's Programs
- Jean-Jacques Forneron, Assistant Professor
- Onur Burak Celik, Lecturer
Es on Applied Microeconomics, Sports Economics, and Gender Economics. He has two edited books on women’s economic empowerment published by Routledge. He is also an associate editor for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. He recei
- Santiago Franco, Assistant Professor
- Stacey Gelsheimer, Senior Lecturer
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.