Economics Faculty
Professors
J. Richard Aronson
Professor of Economics; William L. Clayton Professorship; Director, Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise. B.A., Clark University; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Clark University. Teaching areas: public finance; money and banking. Research interests: tax and expenditure analysis; pension funds; municipal fund analysis.
Shin-Yi Chou
Professor of Economics; Frank L. Magee Distinguished Professorship. B.A., National Taiwan University; Ph.D., Duke University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; health economics. Research interests: health economics.
James A. Dearden
Professor of Economics; Department Chair. A.B., Muhlenberg College; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; game theory. Research interests: applied game theory; microeconomic theory.
Mary E. Deily
Professor of Economics. B.A., University of Maryland; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Teaching areas: microeconomics; industrial organization; mathematics for economists. Research interests: industry decline; regulation of business, hospital inefficiency.
Thomas J. Hyclak
Professor of Economics. B.A., M.A., Cleveland State University; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. Teaching areas: principles of economics; urban economics; macroeconomics. Research interests: regional labor-market analysis; industrial relations in the truck manufacturing industry; international differences in unemployment.
Arthur E. King
Professor of Economics. A.B. Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D. The Ohio State University. Teaching areas: Statistics, health economics; comparative economic systems; applied econometrics.
Judith A. McDonald
Professor of Economics. B.A. (Honours), University of Western Ontario; Ph.D., Princeton University. Teaching areas: macroeconomics; international trade; international finance. Research areas: Capital flows and external debt issues for developing countries; United States-Canada trade relations during the 1930s; pay equity and gender differences in salaries.
Vincent G. Munley
Professor of Economics. B.A., B.S.E.E, Lehigh University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton. Teaching areas: applied microeconomics; environmental economics. Research interests: political economy of state and local government finances.
Anthony P. O'Brien
Professor of Economics. A.B., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Teaching areas: money and banking; macroeconomics; business history. Research interests: business history; economic history; macroeconomics.
Larry W. Taylor
Professor of Economics. B.S., University of North Alabama; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Teaching areas: econometrics; time series; statistics. Research interests: specification testing for economic models; finite-sample issues in econometrics; econometric methodology; macroeconomic modeling; qualitative dependent variables.
Robert J. Thornton
Professor of Economics; Charles William MacFarlane Professorship. H.A.B., Xavier University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois. Teaching areas: labor economics; statistics. Research interests: unionism and collective bargaining; public employment; forensic economics.
Todd A. Watkins
Professor of Economics; Arthur F. Searing Chair. B.S., University of Rochester; M.P.P., Ph.D., Harvard University. Director of Lehigh's Dexter F. Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation and director of the Microfinance Program. Teaching areas: managerial economics; technology entrepreneurship; new product development; microfinance. Research interests: technology and industrial policies; economics and management of innovation; microfinance innovation.
Associate Professors
Frank R. Gunter
Associate Professor of Economics. B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Teaching areas: Principles of economics, economic development, political-economy of Iraq, and political-economy of China. Research interests: Iraq economy, corruption, and capital flight.
Chad D. Meyerhoefer
Associate Professor of Economics; B.S., Binghamton; M.S. and Ph.D., Cornell. Research interests: health economics, public policy, applied econometrics, international economic development.
Assistant Professors
Ernest K. Lai
Assistant Professor of Economics. B.B.A., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; M.Econ., University of Hong Kong; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Research interests: game theory; experimental and behavioral economics.
Alberto J. Lamadrid
Assistant Professor of Economics. B. Sc., Universidad de los Andes; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Cornell University. Research Interests: Electricity markets, Power systems, Energy economics, and Resource economics.
Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy
Assistant Professor of Economics. MSc, Odessa National University, M.A., KSE-EERC, Ph.D., University of Houston. Research Interests: Macroeconomics/Monetary Policy Analysis; International Economics and Finance; Applied Econometrics.
Muzhe Yang
Assistant Professor of Economics. Charlotte & Robert L. Brown III '78 Research Fellowship. B.A. and M.A., Peking University; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Research interests: treatment effect analysis, peer effect analysis, counterfactuals and causal inference.