28 faculty and 37 courses in Economics at University of Florida.
- Jonathan Hamilton, Emeritus Professor h-index 63
Es on theoretical public economics with a focus on models of tax competition and optimal income taxation. Recently, he has studied prescription drug pricing and guarantees in art auctions. Professor Hamilton has been a visiting faculty memb
Notable: “Rethinking the Effect of Immigration on Wages” (2011) · 1,345 citations
- David Sappington, Eminent Scholar Director, Robert F. Lanzillotti Public Policy Research Center h-index 58
Es on the design of reward structures in the presence of limited information, particularly in regulated industries. Professor Sappington has also served as the Chief Economist for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Education PHD &
Notable: “Incentives in Principal-Agent Relationships” (1991) · 845 citations
- Joseph V. Terza, Faculty h-index 28
Health policy include: the analysis of the labor market outcomes of individuals with spinal cord injury; the economic causes and consequences of substance abuse; the economics of nicotine and tobacco use; the behavioral economics of obes
Notable: “Two-stage residual inclusion estimation: Addressing endogeneity in health econometric modeling” (2007) · 1,702 citations
- Richard Romano, Professor and Graduate Coordinator - Public Economics, Education Policy, Public Choice h-index 28
On education policy, political economy, and provision of local public goods. His research has been supported by eight National Science Foundation grants. Romano has served as a member of the editorial boards on the American Economic Review
Notable: “Competition between Private and Public Schools, Vouchers, and Peer-Group Effects” (1998) · 892 citations
- Roger Blair, Professor - Antitrust Economics, Law and Economics, Sports Economics h-index 28
Antitrust Economics, Law and Economics
Notable: “Law and Economics of Vertical Integration and Control” (1985) · 109 citations
- Elias Dinopoulos, Professor - International Trade, Economic Growth, Technological Change, Economic Development h-index 25
International Trade, Industrial Organization, Economic Development
Notable: “A Schumpeterian Model of the Product Life Cycle” (1990) · 742 citations
- Sanford V. Berg, Emeritus Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Quantitative studies of water and sanitation utilities: a benchmarking literature survey” (2011) · 240 citations
- Mark Rush, Professor h-index 19
Macroeconomic Theory, Monetary Economics, International Finance
Notable: “IS THE BUDGET DEFICIT “TOO LARGE?”” (1991) · 739 citations
- Thomas Knight, Department Chair and Instructional Professor h-index 18
To the doctoral program. He presided over the revitalization of the department’s research enterprise with 9 new tenure-track hires, a new junior faculty mentoring program, and a 50% increase in peer-reviewed publications per faculty
Notable: “Factors Affecting Farmers' Utilization of Agricultural Risk Management Tools: The Case of Crop Insurance, Forward Contracting, and Spreading Sales” (2009) · 245 citations
- Steven Slutsky, Professor h-index 15
Public Economics, Microeconomic Theory
Notable: “Endogenous timing in duopoly games: Stackelberg or cournot equilibria” (1990) · 666 citations
- David Denslow, Emeritus Professor h-index 12
U.S. and Global Economic History , Macroeconomics, Florida Economy, Regional Economics, Economic History
Notable: “Asking about Prices: A New Approach to Understanding Price Stickiness” (1998) · 432 citations
- William Bomberger, Emeritus Professor h-index 11
Price Dispersion, Formation of Expectations, Hyperinflation
Notable: “The Conquest of American Inflation” (1999) · 674 citations
- Michelle Phillips, Associate Instructional Professor - Public Economics, Environmental Economics h-index 8
Es on public policy issues in the infrastructure and education sectors. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed publications on topics spanning water benchmarking, electricity incentives for quality improvements, water utility mergers
Notable: “The low cost of quality improvements in the electricity distribution sector of Brazil” (2016) · 23 citations
- Eugenio Rojas, Assistant Professor - International Macroeconomics, Heterogeneous Agents, Quantitative Macroeconomics h-index 6
Es on international macroeconomics, heterogeneous agents, and quantitative macroeconomics. You can
Notable: “High Weight Fraction Surfactant Solubilization of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Water” (2003) · 1,817 citations
- Douglas Waldo, Emeritus Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Bank runs, the deposit-currency ratio and the interest rate” (1985) · 67 citations
- Ignacia Mercadal, Assistant Professor - Energy Economics, Industrial Organization h-index 5
Notable: “Limits to arbitrage in electricity markets: A case study of MISO” (2018) · 47 citations
- Germán Bet, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Market Power in the U.S. Airline Industry” (2021) · 14 citations
- Cecilia Peluffo, Assistant Professor - Development Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics h-index 4
Notable: “Intra-household exposure to labor market risk in the time of Covid-19: lessons from Mexico” (2021) · 22 citations
- Robert Ainsworth, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Public economics, political economy, the economics of education
Notable: “Why Do Households Leave School Value Added on the Table? The Roles of Information and Preferences” (2023) · 32 citations
- Kristian Estevez, Associate Instructional Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator h-index 3
/Research International Trade, Economic Development, Macroeconomics Publications/Working Papers 2018 Quality Polarization and International Trade, with Till Hollstein (UB Working Paper 2018/-) 2017 Demand for Child Labor in a Dynamic North
Notable: “Childhood Poverty: Multidisciplinary Approaches” (2013) · 26 citations
- Douglas Turner, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Introducing dogs into kennels: production of social tendencies to facilitate integration” (1996) · 5 citations
- Gunnar Heins, Assistant Professor - International Trade, Industrial Organization, Computational Economics h-index 3
/Research International Trade, Industrial Organization, Computational Economics
Notable: “Endogenous Vertical Differentiation, Variety, and the Unequal Gains from Trade” (2021) · 13 citations
- Attila Gyetvai, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Fatma Gunay, Associate Instructional Professor
- Hector Hugo Sandoval Gutierrez, Research Assistant Professor (BEBR)
Applied microeconomics, consumer sentiment, energy, education and program evaluation
- Jintaek Song, Assistant Professor
- Nan Zhi, Assistant Instructional Professor
Es on semiparametric estimation for applied microeconomics and health economics.
- Stanley K. Smith, Faculty
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.