Program Expansion
The Ph.D. Program faculty in Economics at Cornell has expanded from 47 faculty in 1997 to 73 in 2007, most of the expansion being since 1998 and about half of the expansion is in the tenured faculty. This substantial growth is continuing today.
In 2007 we added eight new field faculty members. These are:
Daniel Benjamin, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics. His Ph.D. is from Harvard University, 2006, and his specialties are Psychological Economics and Experimental Economics.
Matthew Freedman, Assistant Professor, Department of Labor Economics. His Ph.D. is from University of Maryland-College Park, 2007, and his specialties are job and income mobility and their relationship with geography and urban structure; how suburban sprawl, industrial clustering and commuting patterns bear on labor market dynamics
Ming Huang, Professor of Finance, Clifford H. Whitcomb Faculty Fellow, Johnson School of Management. His Ph.D. is from Stanford University, 1996, and his specialty is Behavioral Finance.
Claudio Lucarelli, Assistant Professor, Policy Analysis and Management. His Ph.D. is from the University of Pennsylvania, 2006, and his specialties are Health Economics, Empirical Industrial Organization and Public Economics.
Karel Mertens, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics. His Ph.D. is from the European University Institute, 2007. His areas of specialty are Macroeconomic Theory, Business Cycle Theory, Banking and Monetary Economics, Empirical Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, and Numerical Methods.
Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Department of Applied Economics and Management. His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago, 1992, and his specialties are Labor Economics, Business Cycles, and Open Economy Macroeconomics.
Henry Schneider, Assistant Professor of Economics, Johnson School of Management. His Ph.D. is from Yale University, 2006, and his areas of specialty are Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization and Experimental Economics.
Viktor Tsyrennikov, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics. His Ph.D. is from New York University, 2007, and his areas of specialty are Macroeconomics, International Finance, and Econometrics
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