Clemson John E. Walker Department of Economics

Economics Professors Recognized for Superior Teaching

Economics Professors Daniel K. Benjamin and William R. Dougan have been recognized with university-wide awards for outstanding teaching.

Dan Benjamin has been named the 2008 Alumni Master Teacher by the Student Alumni Association.

Tollison Festschrift

The BB&T Center for Economic Education and Policy Studies is hosting a Festschrift for Bob Tollison Nov. 6-8 at the Madren Center. We will celebrate Bob’s remarkable contributions to economics and the lives of his students and colleagues with presentations by over a dozen visitors, and his current colleagues in the Walker Department. […]

Four Star General Visits the Department

On Tuesday October 2, Former Air Force Vice Chief of Staff for Personnel Michael McGinty (Lieutenant General, retired) visited the department. General McGinty spoke in Professor John Warner’s Economics of Defense (ECON 419) class, and met with students and faculty in the Department’s Common Room. General McGinty discussed issues relating to the roles […]

Lei Zhang, National Fellow

Professor Lei Zhang is spending the 2007-08 academic year as a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. She will devote her time to research on the impact of welfare reform on the academic achievement of children
and adolescents in low-income families. Professor Zhang is the fifth […]

Symposium on Economic Development

On September 16-18, the Walker Department hosted its Fourth Symposium on Economic Development. This year’s symposium celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas Jr.’s most cited essay, “On the Mechanics of Economic Development.” Contributors included Kevin Murphy and Nancy Stokey of Chicago, Issac Erlich of SUNY Buffalo, […]

Clemson Student Opens NYSE

On Tuesday August 21, Clemson economics graduate Kurt Rotthoff rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, signaling the start of trading. Kurt finished his Ph.D. in May of this year, writing his dissertation under the supervision of Professor Michael Maloney. This month he begins an appointment as Assistant Professor of […]

New Faculty for 2007-08

The Department is pleased to announce that Tomas Cvrcek, Todd Schoellman, and Tom Mroz have joined our faculty.

Scott Baier Appointed to CEA

Scott Baier has begun serving as a senior economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. Professor Baier will be on leave for the 2007-08 academic year while working in Washington, D.C.

New Dual Degree Program with UCL in Belgium

The Economics Department has obtained a $624,000 grant to create a dual degree program with the Universite’ catholique de Louvain, in Belgium. The grant is designed to foster increased student mobility between EU countries and the U.S. Clemson economics students will receive generous stipends to cover the cost of three semesters of study in Europe. Students will spend one semester taking courses at the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands, and two semesters at UCL in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium. The instruction at Maastricht will be in English, and the instruction at UCL will be in French. After returning to Clemson to complete their studies, students will earn bachelors degrees from both Clemson and UCL! For more information, please contact Professor Sauer.

Laureates in the Clemson Classroom: James Buchanan

Nobel Laureate James Buchanan visited the department on the 9th and 10th of October. Professor Buchanan won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, and is a central figure in the Virginia School of Political Economy.