Faculty & Staff

Scott L. Baier

Scott L. Baier Link to Personal Web Page

Associate Professor

  • Ph. D: Michigan State University
  • Fields of Interest: International Trade, Economic Growth and Development, Applied Econometrics
  • Research Topics: Applied international trade; The causes and consequences of trade agreements; Economic growth

Daniel Benjamin

Daniel K. Benjamin Link to Personal Web Page

Alumni Distinguished Professor

  • Ph. D: UCLA
  • Fields of Interest: Applied Price Theory, Economic History
  • Research Topics: Economic History of the British Navy, 1660-1815; Political Economy of Taxation

Howard Bodenhorn

Howard Bodenhorn Link to Personal Web Page

Professor

  • Ph. D: Rutgers University
  • Fields of Interest: Economic History; Law and Economics
  • Research Topics: U.S. Banking and Financial History; Historical Political Economy;
    African American Economic History; Economics of Crime

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Tomas Cvrcek Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Professor

  • Ph. D: Vanderbilt University
  • Fields of Interest: Economic History, Demographic Economics, Labor Economics, Anthropometric History
  • Research Topics: Anthropometric Evidence on Human Welfare; Changes in Marriage Institutions Over Time

William R. Dougan

William R. Dougan Link to Personal Web Page

Professor

  • Ph. D: University of Chicago
  • Fields of Interest: Political Economy, Public Finance, Monetary Theory, Applied Microeconomics
  • Research Topics: Applied Microeconomics; Fiscal Policy and Hyperinflation

David B. Gordon

David B. Gordon Link to Personal Web Page

Associate Professor

  • Ph. D: University of Chicago
  • Fields of Interest: Monetary Theory, Applied Microeconomics
  • Research Topics: Theories of the Price Level and Hyperinflations; Effects of Monetary Policy

Michal M. Jerzmanowski

Michael M. Jerzmanowski Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Professor

  • Ph. D: Brown University
  • Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth
  • Research Topics: Growth Transitions; Medium-Term Growth; Wage Inequality

Chris Kirby

Chris Kirby Link to Personal Web Page

Associate Professor
On Leave 2008-2009

  • Ph. D: Duke University
  • Fields of Interest: Applied Econometrics, Financial Economics, Time Series Econometrics
  • Research Topics: Empirical Asset Pricing; Financial Market Volatility

Michael T. Maloney

Michael T. Maloney Link to Personal Web Page

Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator

  • Ph. D: Louisiana State University
  • Fields of Interest: Applied Price Theory, Financial Economics, Industrial Organization
  • Research Topics: Price Discovery in Asset Markets; Pharmaceutical Innovation; Economics and Religious Schism

Dan Miller Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Professor

  • Ph. D: University of Minnesota
  • Fields of Interest: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied
    Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Organizational Economics
  • Research Topics: Procurement Auctions, Subcontracting and Incomplete Contracts, Estimation of Dynamic Games, Housing Demand

Sergey Mityakov

Sergey Mityakov Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Professor

  • Ph. D: University of Chicago
  • Fields of Interest: Development, Growth, Climate Change
  • Research Topics: Financial Development, Corruption

Tom Mroz

Tom Mroz Link to Personal Web Page

Professor

  • Ph. D: Stanford University
  • Fields of Interest: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Economic Demography
  • Research Topics: Human Capital; Labor Supply; Fertility; Migration; Development; Microeconometrics

Sonia Oreffice

Sonia Oreffice Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Research Professor

  • Ph. D: University of Chicago
  • Fields of Interest: Labor Economics, Economics of the Family, Applied Micro
  • Research Topics: Intrahousehold Bargaining; Human Capital

Dennis L. Placone

Dennis L. Placone Link to Personal Web Page

Professor, Undergraduate Program Coordinator and Director of the Center for Economic Education

  • Ph. D: University of Pittsburgh
  • Fields of Interest: Money and Banking, Macroeconomics
  • Research Topics: Economics of Education

Raymond D. Sauer

Raymond D. Sauer Link to Personal Web Page

Professor and Department Chair

  • Ph. D: University of Washington
  • Fields of Interest: Industrial Organization, Economics of Regulation, Economics of Sports
  • Research Topics: Managerial Strategy; Organization of Sporting Competition

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Todd K. Schoellman Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Professor

  • Ph. D: Stanford University
  • Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics, International Economics
  • Research Topics: Education; Changes in Structure of U.S. Household; Immigration

Curtis J. Simon

Curtis J. Simon Link to Personal Web Page

Associate Professor

  • Ph. D: SUNY-Binghamton
  • Fields of Interest: Labor Economics, Urban Economics
  • Research Topics: Urban Growth; City Fertility Differentials; Adjustment of Labor Markets Across Cities; Dynamics of Military Attrition and Promotion; GI Bill Use

Robert F. Tamura

Robert F. Tamura Link to Personal Web Page

Professor

  • Ph. D: University of Chicago
  • Fields of Interest: Human Capital, Economic Growth and Development
  • Research Topics: Long Run Economic Growth; Fertility; and Education

Charles J. Thomas

Charles J. Thomas Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Professor

  • Ph. D: Princeton University
  • Fields of Interest: Industrial Organization, Antitrust Policy, and Microeconomic Theory
  • Research Topics: Theory and Experiments Involving Static or Dynamic Competition, especially the Strategic Implications of Asymmetries in Costs, Information, or Capabilities

Robert D. Tollison

Robert D. Tollison Link to Personal Web Page

J. Wilson Newman Professor and BB&T Senior Fellow

  • Ph. D: University of Virginia
  • Fields of Interest: History of Economic Thought, Public Choice
  • Research Topics: Political Economy; Economics of Religion; Economics of Sports

Kevin K. Tsui

Kevin K. Tsui Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Professor

  • Ph. D: University of Chicago
  • Fields of Interest: Industrial Organization, Political Economy, and Natural Resource Economics
  • Research Topics: Causes and Consequences of Political Competitiveness; Resource Endowments and Political Competition

John T. Warner

John T. Warner Link to Personal Web Page

Professor

  • Ph. D: North Carolina State University
  • Fields of Interest: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics
  • Research Topics: Economics of Defense; Personnel Economics                       

Patrick L. Warren

Patrick L. Warren Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Professor

  • Ph. D: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Fields of Interest: Political Economy, Organizational Economics
  • Research Topics: Decision-making in Public Sector Organizations, Auditing and Political Accountability, and The Effect of Parties on Policies in the Legislature                       

Paul W. Wilson

Paul W. Wilson Link to Personal Web Page

Professor

  • Ph. D: Brown University
  • Fields of Interest: Econometrics, Empirical Microeconomics
  • Research Topics: Non-Parametric Estimation and Inference; Resampling Methods; Production Efficiency; Analysis of Banking and Hospital Industries; Health Economics; Urban Transportation; Education in Transitioning Economies

Dan Wood Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Professor

  • Ph. D: Harvard University
  • Fields of Interest: Game Theory, Behavioral Economics
  • Research Topics: Norms for Informal Property Rights, Content of Deceptive Speech, Altruism

Lei Zhang

Lei Zhang Link to Personal Web Page

Assistant Professor

  • Ph. D: Stanford University
  • Fields of Interest: Public Economies, Economics of Education, Development Economics
  • Research Topics: Effects of Welfare Reform on Education and Child Welfare; Cross-Country Analysis of Education Finance and Quality

Emeritus Faculty

Cotton M. Lindsay

Cotton M. Lindsay

Newman Professor Emeritus

  • Ph. D: University of Virginia
  • Fields of Interest: contracts and organizational structures with incomplete information and market equilibria with constrained prices

Robert E. McCormick

Robert E. McCormick Link to Personal Web Page

Professor Emeritus and BB&T Scholar

  • Ph. D: Texas A&M University
  • Fields of Interest: Antitrust Economics, Economics of Regulation, Economics of Sports, Environmental Economics, Public Choice
  • Research Topics: Organization and Innovation

G. Richard Thompson

G. Richard Thompson Link to Personal Web Page

Professor Emeritus

  • Ph. D: University of Virginia
  • Fields of Interest: Economics of tort liability and the valuation of life

Myles S. Wallace

Myles S. Wallace

Professor Emeritus

  • Ph. D: University of Colorado
  • Fields of Interest: international economics and the econometric analysis of time-series data

T. Bruce Yandle

T. Bruce Yandle

Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus and BB&T Scholar

  • Ph. D: Georgia State University
  • Fields of Interest: Political economy, environmental economics

Staff

Debbie Cornet

Mrs. Debbie H. Cornett Contact via email

Office Manager

  • Phone: 656-3497
  • Email: dholbro@clemson.edu
  • Office: Sirrine 222A

Tammy Mixon

Ms. Tammy C. Mixon Contact via email

Administrative Specialist

  • Phone: 656-3481
  • Email: tcrane@clemson.edu
  • Office: Sirrine 222

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