60 faculty and 0 courses in Economics at Duke University.
- Nelson B. Valente de Sa, Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics h-index 89
- Duncan Thomas, Norb F. Schaefer Distinguished Professor of International Studies h-index 77
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
- Grace Kim, Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics h-index 65
- 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
- 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
- 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
- James W. Roberts, Chair, Professor of Economics h-index 44
- 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
- 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
- Peter S. Arcidiacono, William Henry Glasson Distinguished Professor of Economics h-index 39
- 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
- Christopher D Walker, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 30
- 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
- Adam M Rosen, Professor of Economics h-index 28
- 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.
- David Berger, Professor of Economics h-index 21
Macro/Monetary, Housing, Labor and Finance Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations Professor of Economics·2022 - PresentEconomics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
- Charles Maxwell Becker, Research Professor of Economics h-index 20
- 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
- Michelle P. Connolly, Professor of the Practice of Economics h-index 15
- Pengpeng Xiao, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 13
- Jeffrey DeSimone, Professor of the Practice of Economics h-index 12
- Laura Pilossoph, Kathleen Kaylor and G. Richard Wagoner Jr. Assistant Professor h-index 12
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- Bocar A Ba, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 10
- Andrea Lanteri, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 9
- Alessandra Lucia Gonzalez, Assistant Research Professor of Economics h-index 8
- Michael Pollmann, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 5
- Aino Levonmaa, Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics
- Allan Collard-Wexler, Professor of Economics
- Anna Bykhovskaya, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Arkadev Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Arnaud Maurel, Professor of Economics
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
- Bahar Leventoglu, Associate Professor of Political Science
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
- Bruce J. Caldwell, Research Professor of Economics
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
- Connel Fullenkamp, W.R. Huff Professor of the Practice of Economics
- Cosmin L. Ilut, Professor of Economics
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
- Ellen E Meade, Research Professor of Economics
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- 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
- Emma Rasiel, Richard Y. Li Professor of the Practice
- Erica Field, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Economics
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
- Federico C Huneeus, Assistant Professor of Economics
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
- Felix Tintelnot, Associate Professor of Economics
- Gregor Jarosch, Professor of Economics
- Jason Baron, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Kevin Douglas Hoover, Professor of Economics
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
- Kyle Jurado, Associate Professor of Economics
- Laura Castillo Martinez, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Lawrence Kreicher, Associate Professor of the Practice of Economics
- Marjorie B. McElroy, Professor of Economics
- Matthew A Masten, Associate Professor of Economics
- Matthias Kehrig, Associate Professor of Economics
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
- Michael F Dinerstein, Associate Professor of Economics
- Philipp Sadowski, Associate Professor of Economics
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
- Pietro F. Peretto, Professor of Economics
- Rachel Kranton, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Economics
- Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Professor of Economics
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
- Thomas J. Nechyba, Professor of Economics
- Tim Bollerslev, Juanita and Clifton Kreps Distinguished Professor of Economics
- Todd Sarver, Professor of Economics
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
- Wendy A Morrison, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Yingni Guo, Associate Professor of Economics
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