Faculty

Listed below are faculty who regularly teach undergraduate economics courses and/or lead Tepper Honors Theses in Economics. If there are faculty members not listed here with whom you would like to work, do not hesitate to contact them. Most faculty members prefer to be contact through e-mail. Click here for a list of Tepper Faculty.  Click here for list of economists at Carnegie Mellon.

Dr. Goldburg is in the process of conducting informal interviews with the Economics faculty. To find out about faculty research interests, what music can found on their i-pods, and more, visit the Faculty Interviews website.

LAURENCE ALES, Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D., University of Minnesota). Macroeconomics, public economics, contract theory, monetary economics.

KAREN B. CLAY, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy (Ph.D., Stanford University).   Economic history (the role of both public and private order institutions in the economy), electronic commerce.

DANIELE COEN-PIRANI, Associate Professor of Economics (Ph.D., University of Rochester). Business cycles, macroeconomics with heterogeneous agents, political economy, labor market policies, asset pricing.

TIMOTHY P. DERDENGER, Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D., University of Southern California, expected 2009). Industrial organization; empirical industrial organization, competition policy; high-technology and media/entertainment strategy.

JUAN DUBRA, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics (Ph.D., New York University). Microeconomic theory, auctions, crime and corruption, applied game theory.

DENNIS N. EPPLE, Head, Economics Programs, Thomas Lord Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Princeton University). Public economics, economics of education, industrial organization and applied econometrics.

MARIA MARTA FERREYRA,  Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin). Applied microeconomics, applied econometrics, economics of education, industrial organization. Currently studying the general equilibrium effects of school finance reform, private school vouchers and other school choice programs.

CHRISTINA FONG, Research Scientist (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts). Public economics, inequality and redistribution, behavioral economics, political economy.

GEORGE-LEVI GAYLE, Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh). Econometric theory, empirical auction, labor economics and empirical contract theory.

MARTIN GAYNOR, E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy (Ph.D., Northwestern University). Industrial organization, health economics, economics of organizations, competitive strategy. Currently studying competition and antitrust in health care markets, and the impacts of social interactions on optimal incentives in organizations.

LIMOR GOLAN, Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin). Labor economics, applied microeconomic theory, personnel economics.

CAROL B. GOLDBURG, Adjunct Professor of Economics and Director of the Undergraduate Economics Program (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University). Political economy, game theory, history of economic thought.

MARVIN GOODFRIEND, Professor of Economics and President, Gailliot Center for Public Policy, (Ph.D., Brown University). Macroeconomic fluctuations, monetary theory and policy, banking and financial markets, economic development.

ISA E. HAFALIR, Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D. Penn State University).   Microeconomic theory, game theory, mechanism design, industrial organization.

BURTON HOLLIFIELD, Professor of Financial Economics (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University). Asymmetric information in financial markets, insider trading, limit order markets, portfolio theory, asset pricing.

ELIF INCEKARA HAFALIR, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D. Penn State University). Applied microeconomic theory, behavior economics, industrial organization.

ONUR KESTEN, Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D., University of Rochester). Microeconomic theory, mechanism design, matching markets, and social choice.

STEVEN KLEPPER, Arthur Arton Hamerschlag Professor of Economics and Social Science (Ph.D., Cornell University). Industrial organization, technological change, industry evolution, and econometrics.

YAROSLAV KRYUKOV, Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Northwestern University). Microeconomics, industrial organization, computational methods, econometrics.

LESTER B. LAVE,  Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Economics and University Professor; Director, Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative; Co-Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center (Ph.D., Harvard University). Applied economics, particularly identification and structuring of public issues. Setting safety goals for dams and other engineered structures, quantitative risk assessment, exhaustible resources-helium, setting safety standards for nuclear reactors, modeling the effects of global climate change, improving social regulations, risk perception and communication, the value of information in tests for carcinogenicity, highway safety; pollution prevention.

BENNETT T. McCALLUM,  H. J. Heinz Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Rice University). Macroeconomic fluctuations, monetary theory and policy. Specific topics of ongoing concern include theories of the real effects of monetary policy, strategies for the conduct of monetary policy, macroeconomic consequences of alternative international monetary arrangements, and significance of multiple solutions in rational expectations analysis.

ROBERT A. MILLER, Professor of Economics and Strategy (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Microeconomics and strategy.

NICOLAS PETROSKY-NADEAU, Assistant Professor of Economics (Ph.D. University of Quebed at Monreal, expected 2009). Macroeconomics, business cycles, labor market dynamics, capital market imperfections.

DUANE J. SEPPI, Professor of Financial Economics (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Market microstructure, energy and commodity derivative valuation, financial engineering, game theory.

HOLGER SIEG, The Friends of Allan H. Meltzer Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University). Public economics and econometrics; computational economics, environmental economics, health economics, industrial organization, and labor economics.

CHRISTOPHER SLEET, Associate Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Stanford University). Macroeconomics, dynamic public finance, contract theory

FALLAW B. SOWELL, Associate Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Duke University). Econometrics, time series and microeconomics.

STEPHEN E. SPEAR, Professor of Economics (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania). Microeconomic theory, dynamic general equilibrium theory, mathematical economics, experimental economics, economics of electronic commerce.

CHRIS I. TELMER, Associate Professor of Financial Economics (Ph.D., Queen's University (Canada)). Intertemporal asset pricing theory with incomplete markets, forward-foreign exchange rate determination, aggregate representations of heterogeneous agent economies, international portfolio choice and incomplete markets.

SEVIN YELTEKIN, Associate Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Stanford University). Macroeconomics, optimal monetary and fiscal policy, computational economics, repeated and dynamic policy games, mechanism design, political economy.