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FACULTY AND RESEARCH

Research

Doctoral students in the business economics program work with faculty engaged in diverse types of research. Some of this research is interdisciplinary, involving colleagues at other institutions as well as colleagues from other departments within Washington University.

Recent faculty projects include:

Development of new methods of statistical inference for semiparametric models, stochastic differential equations and models of volatility with leverage
Investigation of the roles of teams in providing incentives
The effects on ATM charges of competition
Research on the economics of "has beens" in career structures
Research in both applied and theoretical game theory

The Business Economics faculty at Olin have been published in prestigious journals including:

American Economic Review
Biometrika
Econometric
Econometrica Theory
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
Journal of Econometrics
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Political Economy
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Review of Economic Studies Theory

Faculty Members*

Amitay Alter
Assistant Professor of Economics
PhD, Stanford University
Industrial organization, organizational economics, venture capital

Rajeer R. Bhattacharya
Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance
PhD University of Rochester
Market efficiency, market manipulation, impact of trades, public offerings of stocks and bonds

Kelly Bishop
Assistant Professor of Economics
PhD 2008, Duke University
Environmental economics, labor economics, public economics, applied economentrics

Siddhartha Chib
Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of
Econometrics and Statistics
PhD, University of California-Santa Barbara
Bayesian statistics, Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation methods

Barton H. Hamilton
Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished
Professor of Entrepreneurship
PhD, Stanford University
Health economics, labor economics, econometrics, applied microeconomics

James T. Little
Donald Danforth, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Business
PhD, University of Minnesota
Economics, corporate finance

Glenn MacDonald
John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Strategy
PhD, University of Rochester
Industry dynamics, industrial organization

Alvin Murphy
Assistant Professor of Economics
PhD 2008, Duke University
Public economics, industrial organization, urban economics, applied econometrics

Robert A. Pollak
Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Business and government, law and economics, political economy

* See the faculty directory for visiting professors and adjunct faculty.