60 faculty and 0 courses in Economics at Duke University.
- Tim Bollerslev, Juanita and Clifton Kreps Distinguished Professor of Economics h-index 76
Notable: “Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity” (1986) · 22,320 citations
- Duncan Thomas, Norb F. Schaefer Distinguished Professor of International Studies h-index 55
Focus on population health and development. His work delves inside the black box of the family to provide empirical evidence on how resources are allocated within families in very low resource environments and highlights the role of female empowerment in impro
Notable: “Intra-Household Resource Allocation: An Inferential Approach” (1990) · 1,958 citations
- Andrew J. Patton, Zelter Family Distinguished Professor h-index 50
Lie in financial econometrics, with an emphasis on forecasting volatility and dependence, forecast evaluation methods, high frequency financial data, and the analysis of hedge funds and mutual funds. His research has appeared in a variety of academic journals
Notable: “MODELLING ASYMMETRIC EXCHANGE RATE DEPENDENCE*” (2006) · 2,122 citations
- A. Craig Burnside, Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor h-index 47
Macroeconomics and international finance. His recent research focuses on foreign exchange markets, empirical methods in finance, and the behavior of prices in housing markets. He has published articles in a number of academic journals, including the Am
Notable: “Aid, Policies, and Growth” · 3,695 citations
- Curtis R. Taylor, Professor of Economics h-index 44
Microeconomic theory with emphasis on the areas of Industrial Organization, Political Economy, and the Theory of Contracts. He has worked on a variety of topics such as: the optimal design of research contests, the causes and timing of market crashes, and c
Notable: “Mechanical work in terrestrial locomotion: two basic mechanisms for minimizing energy expenditure” (1977) · 1,428 citations
- David Berger, Professor of Economics h-index 44
Macro/Monetary, Housing, Labor and Finance Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations Professor of Economics·2022 - PresentEconomics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Notable: “House Prices and Consumer Spending” (2017) · 365 citations
- Timur Kuran, Gorter Family Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies h-index 43
Es on (1) social change, including the evolution of preferences and institutions, and (2) the economic and political history and modernization of the Middle East. His current projects include a study of the role that the Middle East’s traditional institutions
Notable: “Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989” (1991) · 1,457 citations
- Patrick Bayer, Gilhuly Family Distinguished Professor in Economics h-index 41
Es on wide range of subjects including racial inequality and segregation, social interactions, housing markets, education, and criminal justice. His most recent work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Econometri
Notable: “A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods” (2007) · 1,026 citations
- Kevin Douglas Hoover, Professor of Economics h-index 39
Macroeconomics, monetary economics, the history of economics, and the philosophy and methodology of empirical economics. His recent work in economics has focused on the application of causal search methodologies for structural vector autoregression, th
Notable: “Data mining reconsidered: encompassing and the general‐to‐specific approach to specification search” (1999) · 344 citations
- Peter S. Arcidiacono, William Henry Glasson Distinguished Professor of Economics h-index 39
Notable: “Ability sorting and the returns to college major” (2003) · 845 citations
- Bruce J. Caldwell, Research Professor of Economics h-index 36
Es on the history of economic thought, with a specific interest in the life and works of the Nobel Laureate economist and social theorist F. A. Hayek. He is the author of _Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek_ (2004) and since 2002 has s
Notable: “The Methodology of Economics, or How Economists Explain” (1981) · 772 citations
- Erica Field, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Economics h-index 33
S are development economics, labor economics, economic demography, and health. Specifically, her research focuses on the areas of marriage and family, property rights, global health, and finance and entrepreneurship. She has received grants from the National S
Notable: “Early Marriage, Age of Menarche, and Female Schooling Attainment in Bangladesh” (2008) · 571 citations
- Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Garonzik Family Distinguished Professor h-index 30
Es on mechanism design, market design and economics of education. His research has led to the design and implementation of better admissions policies in school choice programs in the US, including Boston and New York City. His research in economics of educatio
Notable: “School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach” (2003) · 1,628 citations
- Steven G. Medema, George Family Research Professor h-index 30
Es on the history of modern economics, though his writings range over subjects as diverse as the Ancient Greeks, Adam Smith, and British philosopher Henry Sidgwick. The thread that unites much of his research is the analysis of the interplay between markets an
Notable: “Retrospectives: On the Definition of Economics” (2009) · 212 citations
- Rachel Kranton, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Economics h-index 29
Notable: “Economics and Identity*” (2000) · 5,604 citations
- Pietro F. Peretto, Professor of Economics h-index 27
Notable: “Technological Change and Population Growth” (1998) · 511 citations
- Connel Fullenkamp, W.R. Huff Professor of the Practice of Economics h-index 21
Notable: “Are Immigrant Remittance Flows a Source of Capital for Development?” (2005) · 999 citations
- Attila Ambrus, Professor of Economics h-index 21
Es on a broad range of subjects including game theory, experimental economics, microeconomic theory, industrial organization, political economics, development economics and economic history. He has received various grants from the National Science Foundation.
Notable: “Early Marriage, Age of Menarche, and Female Schooling Attainment in Bangladesh” (2008) · 571 citations
- Thomas J. Nechyba, Professor of Economics h-index 20
Notable: “Urban Sprawl” (2004) · 415 citations
- Charles Maxwell Becker, Research Professor of Economics h-index 20
Notable: “Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis” (2003) · 81 citations
- Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Professor of Economics h-index 19
Es on the labor market adjustment process in response to globalization and trade liberalization, including i) the _dynamics_ of adjustment to trade and ii) the _margins_ of adjustment to trade. Additional research includes how trade-oriented firms respond to e
Notable: “Trade Liberalization and Regional Dynamics” (2017) · 647 citations
- Ellen E Meade, Research Professor of Economics h-index 19
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Notable: “Central bank independence and transparency: Evolution and effectiveness” (2008) · 306 citations
- David McAdams, Professor of Business Administration h-index 19
Microeconomic theory and game theory, with a special focus on strategic interactions between buyers and sellers, including auctions, pricing, negotiations, and relationships. His work has been published in the leading journals of econom
Notable: “Antibiotic development — economic, regulatory and societal challenges” (2019) · 447 citations
- Allan Collard-Wexler, Professor of Economics h-index 17
Notable: “How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India” (2016) · 444 citations
- Felix Tintelnot, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 17
Notable: “The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from US Firms” (2017) · 380 citations
- Arnaud Maurel, Professor of Economics h-index 17
Es on labor economics/education and microeconometrics. Most of his non-methodological work lies at the intersection between the economics of education and labor economics, with a focus on post-secondary education demand and occupational choices. On the methodo
Notable: “Choosing the Field of Study in Postsecondary Education: Do Expected Earnings Matter?” (2011) · 255 citations
- Marjorie B. McElroy, Professor of Economics h-index 16
Notable: “Nash-Bargained Household Decisions: Toward a Generalization of the Theory of Demand” (1981) · 1,893 citations
- Cosmin L. Ilut, Professor of Economics h-index 16
Macroeconomics, international finance, asset pricing, and economics of information. Specifically, he focuses on the role of expectations and how agents incorporate information. He is currently focusing on settings in which agents face model uncertainty. Ba
Notable: “Ambiguous Business Cycles” (2014) · 396 citations
- Michelle P. Connolly, Professor of the Practice of Economics h-index 15
Notable: “The dual nature of trade: measuring its impact on imitation and growth” (2003) · 166 citations
- Gregor Jarosch, Professor of Economics h-index 13
Notable: “Internal and external effects of social distancing in a pandemic” (2021) · 295 citations
- Laura Pilossoph, Kathleen Kaylor and G. Richard Wagoner Jr. Assistant Professor h-index 12
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Notable: “Which workers bear the burden of social distancing?” (2021) · 254 citations
- Michael F Dinerstein, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 12
Notable: “Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce” (2018) · 220 citations
- Matthias Kehrig, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 12
Lies on how firm-level differences shape aggregate outcomes and how aggregate fluctuations in turn influence firm-level dynamics. His most recent research project studies the micro-level anatomy of the aggregate labor share decline. Using micro-level business
Notable: “The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Labor Share Decline*” (2021) · 204 citations
- Federico C Huneeus, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 11
Es on issues related to firm behavior, from a micro and macro perspective, with a special focus on the study of production networks of firms, how they are formed, how they affect productivity growth and how they affect the impact of development policies. He is
Notable: “Financing firms in hibernation during the COVID-19 pandemic” (2021) · 251 citations
- Matthew A Masten, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 11
- Todd Sarver, Professor of Economics h-index 10
Es on microeconomic theory, decision theory, and behavioral economics. His interests include modeling psychological phenomenon such as regret and temptation, cognitive constraints and bounded rationality, and attitudes toward risk in dynamic environments. He h
Notable: “Anticipating Regret: Why Fewer Options May Be Better” (2008) · 171 citations
- Yingni Guo, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 9
Notable: “The Interval Structure of Optimal Disclosure” (2019) · 109 citations
- Andrea Lanteri, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 9
Notable: “The Market for Used Capital: Endogenous Irreversibility and Reallocation over the Business Cycle” (2018) · 88 citations
- Jeffrey DeSimone, Professor of the Practice of Economics h-index 8
Notable: “Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug” (1998) · 74 citations
- Bahar Leventoglu, Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 7
Es on how leaders use public statements to affect their bargaining position in international negotiations. A second line of research deals with rational explanations of war. A third line of research concerns habit formation in bargaining situations as well as
Notable: “The Armed Peace: A Punctuated Equilibrium Theory of War” (2007) · 155 citations
- Philipp Sadowski, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 7
To better understand the interaction between observable economic behavior and the often not directly observable formation of beliefs. Topics include subjective learning, rational inattention, changing tastes, and other-regarding motives such as shame and ma
Notable: “Ashamed to be selfish” (2012) · 73 citations
- Lawrence Kreicher, Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics h-index 7
Notable: “The Real Rate of Interest: Inferences from the New U.K. Indexed Gilts” (1985) · 37 citations
- Kyle Jurado, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 6
Notable: “Measuring Uncertainty” (2015) · 2,925 citations
- Anna Bykhovskaya, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 5
- Michael Pollmann, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 5
- Emma Rasiel, Richard Y. Li Professor of the Practice h-index 4
Notable: “The performance of alternative valuation models in the OTC currency options market” (2003) · 50 citations
- Arkadev Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 3
Notable: “Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India” (2024) · 12 citations
- Wendy A Morrison, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 1
Notable: “Optimal Monetary Policy with Redistribution” (2024) · 2 citations
- Adam M Rosen, Professor of Economics
- Aino Levonmaa, Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics
- Alessandra Lucia Gonzalez, Assistant Research Professor of Economics
- Bocar A Ba, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Christopher D Walker, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Emily A Cuddy, Assistant Professor of Economics
Lie at the intersection of health economics and industrial organization, where she studies health care markets with a view towards improving their function. In previous work, she has examined manufacturer conduct in pharmaceutical markets, as well as physician
- Grace Kim, Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics
- James W. Roberts, Chair, Professor of Economics
- Jason Baron, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Laura Castillo Martinez, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Nelson B. Valente de Sa, Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics
- Pengpeng Xiao, Assistant Professor of Economics
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.