Economics at University of California, Santa Cruz

40 faculty and 39 courses in Economics at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Faculty

• Michael M Hutchison, Distinguished Professor h-index 103
  Notable: “Does Trade Cause Growth?” (1999) · 5,374 citations
• Robert W Fairlie, Research Associate h-index 61
  Notable: “An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models” (2005) · 1,067 citations
• Yin-Wong Cheung, Professor Emeritus h-index 56
  Notable: “FINITE‐SAMPLE SIZES OF JOHANSEN's LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS FOR COINTEGRATION” (1993) · 1,225 citations
• Daniel Friedman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus h-index 42
  Notable: “The Adaptive Character of Thought” (1991) · 2,240 citations
• Michael P Dooley, Professor Emeritus h-index 40
  Notable: “An Essay on the Revived Bretton Woods System” (2003) · 718 citations
• Carl E Walsh, Distinguished Professor Emeritus h-index 38
  Notable: “INTEREST AND PRICES: FOUNDATIONS OF A THEORY OF MONETARY POLICY” (2005) · 5,751 citations
• Nirvikar Singh, Distinguished Professor h-index 32
  Notable: “Price and Quantity Competition in a Differentiated Duopoly” (1984) · 2,961 citations
• Jonathan M Robinson, Professor h-index 31
  Notable: “Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya” (2011) · 1,121 citations
• Donald A Wittman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus h-index 29
  Notable: “Candidate Motivation: A Synthesis of Alternative Theories” (1983) · 847 citations
• Carlos E Dobkin, Professor h-index 23
  Notable: “The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Medicare” (2008) · 721 citations
• Lori G Kletzer, Professor h-index 21
  Notable: “Job Displacement” (1998) · 335 citations
• Kenneth M Kletzer, Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Credit markets and patterns of international trade” (1987) · 435 citations
• Alan R Richards, Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “The political economy of dilatory reform: Egypt in the 1980s” (1991) · 83 citations
• Jeremy D West, Associate Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment Dynamics” (2015) · 439 citations
• Justin G Marion, Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “The effects of low income housing tax credit developments on neighborhoods” (2009) · 257 citations
• George Bulman, Associate Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet” (2015) · 135 citations
• Ronald E Grieson, Professor Emeritus h-index 13
  Notable: “Optimal fiscal policy for a state or local government” (1981) · 104 citations
• John W Isbister, Professor Emeritus h-index 12
  Notable: “The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration.” (1997) · 701 citations
• Alan C Spearot, Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys” (2022) · 156 citations
• Ajay Shenoy, Associate Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Regional development through place-based policies: Evidence from a spatial discontinuity” (2017) · 93 citations
• Bernard L Elbaum, Associate Professor Emeritus h-index 8
  Notable: “The Decline of the British Economy.” (1987) · 244 citations
• Natalia Lazzati, Associate Professor h-index 8
  Notable: “Network effects, market structure and industry performance” (2011) · 64 citations
• Hikaru Saijo, Associate Professor h-index 7
  Notable: “Diagnostic Business Cycles” (2023) · 70 citations
• Weishi Steadmon, Associate Professor h-index 7
  Notable: “Climate risks and FDI” (2023) · 74 citations
• Kristian Miguel Lopez Vargas, Associate Professor h-index 7
  Notable: “Experiments in high-frequency trading: comparing two market institutions” (2019) · 31 citations
• Chenyue Hu, Associate Professor h-index 4
  Notable: “Industrial specialization matters: A new angle on equity home Bias” (2020) · 20 citations
• Kai Pommerenke, Senior Continuing Lecturer h-index 2
  Notable: “Searching for the sunk cost fallacy” (2007) · 170 citations
• Alonso Villacorta, Associate Professor h-index 1
  Notable: “Business Cycles and the Balance Sheets of the Financial and Non-Financial Sectors” (2018) · 3 citations
• Kwok-Chiu Fung, Full Professor h-index 1
  Notable: “Foreign Direct Investment in Cross-Border Infrastructure Projects” (2011) · 4 citations
• Aaron G Meininger, Lecturer
• Jessie Q Li, Associate Professor
• Joshua Aizenman, Professor
• Julie H Gonzalez, Senior Continuing Lecturer
• Kevin K Jones, Associate Teaching Professor
• Richard Lee Bibbs, Undergraduate Advisor & Web Management
• Robert Adams, Professor Emeritus
• Scott Anderson, Lecturer
• Stephen A Owen, Lecturer
• Subhra Baran Saha, Lecturer
• Susan Leach, Department Manager

Courses

• Introductory Microeconomics: Resource Allocation and Market Structure ECON 1
• Introductory Macroeconomics: Aggregate Economic Activity ECON 2
• Economics of Accounting ECON 10A
• Economics of Accounting II ECON 10B
• Economics for Non-Majors ECON 20
• Introduction to Python for Data Science ECON 22P
• Introduction to Entrepreneurship ECON 30
• Economics, Science, and Policy of Climate Change ECON 50
• Intermediate Microeconomics ECON 100A
• Intermediate Macroeconomics ECON 100B
• Intermediate Microeconomics, Math Intensive ECON 100M
• Intermediate Macroeconomics, Math Intensive ECON 100N
• Managerial Economics ECON 101
• Is There Truth in Numbers: The Role of Statistics in Economics ECON 104
• Topics in Macroeconomics ECON 105
• Managerial Cost Accounting and Control ECON 110
• Intermediate Accounting I ECON 111A
• Intermediate Accounting II ECON 111B
• Intermediate Accounting III ECON 111C
• Auditing and Attestation ECON 112
• Introduction to Econometrics ECON 113
• Advanced Quantitative Methods ECON 114
• Introduction to Management Sciences ECON 115
• Advanced Topics in Accounting and Ethics ECON 116
• Income Tax Factors for Individuals ECON 117A
• Tax Factors of Business and Investment ECON 117B
• Advanced Accounting ECON 119
• Development Economics ECON 120
• Economic Growth ECON 121
• Machine Learning for Economists ECON 124
• Economic History of the U.S. ECON 125
• Poverty and Public Policy ECON 128
• Money and Banking ECON 130
• International Financial Markets ECON 131
• Security Markets and Financial Institutions ECON 133
• Corporate Finance ECON 135
• Business Strategy ECON 136
• The Economics and Management of Technology and Innovation ECON 138
• The Economics of Electronic Commerce ECON 139A

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.