UW Economics faculty are an outstanding and collegial group of researchers and teachers, many of whom enjoy an international reputation in his or her specialty. Our faculty strengths are many, including quantitative finance, econometrics, macroeconomics, international economics, industrial organization, environmental economics, development economics, and microeconomic theory.
Recent faculty accomplishments
Professor Stephen Turnovsky presented keynote addresses at the 17th International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance held in Rethymno, Crete, in May 2013, and at the Second International Symposium on the History of Economic Thought: “Macroeconomic Dynamics in Historical Perspective” in Sao Paolo, Brazil, August. Additionally, Prof. Turnovsky has had two papers accepted for publication: “Capital Accumulation and the Sources of Demographic Change,” Journal of Population Economics (with J.O. Mierau) and “Income Inequality. Mobility, and the Accumulation of Capital,” Macroeconomic Dynamics (with C. García-Peñalosa). Finally, Prof. Turnovsky was awarded David Kendrick Prize for contributions to computational economics at the SCE meeting in Vancouver.
Professor Yanqin Fan has had several papers accepted for publication this year: “Identifying Treatment Effects under Data Combination,” (with Robert Sherman and Matthew Shum), forthcoming in Econometrica, 2013; “Copulas in Econometrics,” (with Andrew Patton), forthcoming in the Annual Review of Economics, 2013; “A Flexible Parametric Approach to Estimating Switching Regime Models and Treatment Effect Parameters,” (with Heng Chen and Jisong Wu), forthcoming in Journal of Econometrics, 2013; and “Bias Correction and Confidence Sets under IV and MIV Assumptions,” (with Sangsoo Park), forthcoming in Journal of Econometrics, 2013.
Associate Professor Yu-chin Chen gave presentations at various institutions in Australia and New Zealand in 2013, and her paper with Dong Won Lee "What makes a commodity currency?" was presented at the NBER Economics of Commodity Markets meeting in October. Additionally, Prof. Chen joined the editorial board of the Journal of International Money and Finance.
Assistant Professor Hendrik Wolff had the following papers accepted for publication: "Value of Time, Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (forthcoming 2014); “Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb: Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles”, Economic Journal (forthcoming); and “Analysis of Heterogeneous Speeding Behavior”, Transportation Research Record, National Research Council (forthcoming with K. Watkins). Prof. Wolff's work with the World Bank, and his research on daylight saving time (with M. Makino) and energy (with R. Kellogg) has been widely discussed in the media, including The Financial Times, national Geographic, and the Wall Street Journal.
Professor Fabio Ghironi joined the Economics Department from Boston College in August. He was appointed a Research Fellow in the International Macroeconomics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London, UK) shortly after. In October, he presented his research in the CEPR-RIETI Workshop on "New Challenges to Global Trade and Finance" at RIETI (Tokyo, Japan) and in the West Coast Workshop in International Finance & Open Economy Macroeconomics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He gave a seminar at Washington State University in November. Fabio is enjoying the start of his teaching experience at UW and is beginning to work with the department's graduate students.
Professor Fahad Khalil presented, “Private Monitoring, Collusion and the Timing of Information”, co-authored with Jacques Lawarrée and alumnus Troy Scott, PhD '10, at Indiana University-Purdue, West Virginia, and Stony Brook in October 2013.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics Mark Long had the following papers accepted for publication: “Gender Gaps in College Enrollment: The Role of Gender Sorting Across Public High Schools,” with Dylan Conger, Educational Researcher, 42(7), pp. 371–380, October 2013; and “Changes in Levels of Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Response to Statewide Bans and Judicial Rulings,” with Grant H. Blume. Forthcoming in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.