Faculty Research Areas


 Department Faculty Areas of Expertise
 

Mea Ahlberg
Senior Lecturer

  
  • Cultural and Behavioral Development Economics
  • Economics of National Security
  • The Political Economy of International Negotiations
  • Conflict Management and Formation of Coalitions
  • Policy Interventions

Nathan Balke
Professor and 2007 Dedman Family Distinguished Professor

  • Macroeconomics
  • Time Series Analysis

Raveendra Batra
Professor

  • International Economics
  • Macroeconomics

Bo Chen
Associate Professor
  • Game Theory
  • Microeconomics
  • Mechanism Design

Cullum Clark
Director, Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative and Adjunct Professor of Economics

 
  • macroeconomic policy
  • economic geography and urban economics
  • modern economic history

Raj Deb
Professor

  • Social Choice
  • Game Theory
  • Public Economics
  • Microeconomics

Klaus Desmet
Ruth and Kenneth Altshuler Centennial Interdisciplinary Professor
  • International Trade
  • Regional & Urban Economics
  • Economics of Climate Change
  • Political Economy

Hao Dong
Assistant Professor
  • Econometrics
Alipio Ferreira
Assistant Professor
  • Environmental Economics
  • Public Economics

Thomas B. Fomby
Professor
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Predictive Analytics

Kathy J. Hayes
Professor
  • Public Economics
  • Urban and Regional Economics
  • Applied Microeconomics
 

Wookun Kim
Assistant Professor

 
  • Regional and Urban Economics
  • International Trade
  • Public Finance
  • Health Economics
  • Demography

Rocio Madera
Assistant Professor

 
  • Macroeconomics
  • Labor Economics
  • Household Finance
 

Ryan McGregor
Lecturer

  
  • Labor Economics
  • Economics of the Family
  • Economics of Education
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Daniel Millimet
Dedman Trustee Professor and Department Chair
  • Microeconometrics
  • Labor Economics
  • Environmental Economics

Thomas Osang
Associate Professor

  • International Economics
  • Growth and Development

Ömer Özak
Associate Professor
  • Comparative Development
  • Long-Run Growth
  • Evolutionary Economics
  • Technological Change and Innovation
  • Economic Growth and Development
  • Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Saltuk Ozerturk  
Associate Professor 

  • Contract Theory and Incentives
  • Political Economy of the Media
  • Financial Economics

Nathaniel Pattison
Assistant Professor
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Household Finance
  • Public Economics
  Luis Perez
Assistant Professor		  
  • Macroeconomics
  • Public Finance
  • Industrial Organization
Prasanthi Ramakrishnan
Assistant Professor
  • Labor Economics
  • Household Economics

Helen Reynolds
Senior Lecturer and Maguire Teaching Fellow

  • Labor Markets

Santanu Roy
Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Professor of Economics; University Distinguished Professor

  • Microeconomic Theory and Applications
  • Industrial Organization and Applied Game Theory
  • Economic Dynamics
  • Economics of Natural Resources

Tim Salmon
Professor

  • Mechanism Design
  • Auction Theory
  • Experimental Economics

Michael Sposi
Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies

  • International trade
  • Macroeconomics
  • Economic Development
 

Yichen Su
Assistant Professor

  
  • Regional and Urban Economics
  • Labor Economics
  • Public Economics

Beth Wheaton 
Assistant Professor 

  • Child labor and the Economics of human trafficking
  • Capital Punishment
  • Violence against women
  • Seeking asylum
  • Terrorism
  • Child abuse, genocide, hate, and gun violence
  • Genocide
  • Hate
  • Gun violence