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FACULTY AND RESEARCH


Research

PhD 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
  • Econometrica Theory
  • Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
  • Journal of Econometrics
  • Journal of Economic Theory
  • Journal of Political Economy

FACULTY MEMBERS*

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

Mariagiovanna Baccara
Associate Professor of Economics
PhD, Princeton University
Innovation and intellectual property
rights, organized crime, social networks

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

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


Joseph Cullen
Assistant Professor of Economics
PhD, University of Arizona
Industrial organization, environmental
economics, energy, applied econometrics

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 & Strategy
PhD, University of Rochester
Industry dynamics, industrial organization

Alvin Murphy
Assistant Professor of Economics
PhD, 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

Maher Said
Assistant Professor of Economics
PhD, Yale University
mechanism and market design, dynamic
auctions and mechanisms, game theory,
microeconomic theory.


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