Economics Faculty at Williams College
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Macroeconomics; economic growth and development; economic history
Office: South Academic Building 312
E-mail: Quamrul.H.Ashraf@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-3051
Associate Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Public sector economics;
economic effects of taxation; tax reform and social security reform;
charitable giving.
Office: South Academic Building 330
E-mail: Jon.M.Bakija@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2325
William Brough Professor of Economics, emeritus; Research
Associate in Environmental Studies
Fields of Specialization: Regional and urban
economics; economic geography; history of economic thought, including
Williams College economists of the past; philosophy of Jurgen Habermas.
E-mail: Roger.E.Bolton@williams.edu
Tel:(413) 597-2393
David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
Fields of Specialization: Industrial organization;
political economy of regulation; developing economies in transition.
Office: South Academic Building 207
E-mail:
Ralph.M.Bradburd@williams.edu Tel: (413)
597-2995
Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization:Labor economics and public
sector economics; economics of reform in formerly socialist countries;
health and demographic consequences of economic reform.
On leave 2009 - 2010 academic year
E-mail: Elizabeth.Brainerd@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2408
John J. Gibson Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Fields of Specialization: Technological change;
development economics; international trade involving developing
countries; multinational firms; productivity growth in less developed
countries.
Office: Mears West 201
E-mail: Henry.J.Bruton@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2357
Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Financial sector
development, financial regulation, financial history and crises; money
and banking and economic development.
On leave fall 2009
E-mail: Gerard.Caprio@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2465
Visiting Professor of Economics
E-mail: Michael.Fortunato@williams.edu
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics.
Office: South Academic Building 205
E-mail: rgazzale@williams.edu
Tel:(413) 597-4375
Associate Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Issues in public finance
and corporate finance, especially in how taxes affect household and
business decisions.
Office: South Academic Building 329
E-mail: William.M.Gentry@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4257
Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Applications of dynamic
general equilibrium models; development economics and growth models;
agricultural economics, with special interests in technological change;
valuation of genetic resources and biodiversity.
On leave 2009 - 2010 academic year
E-mail: Douglas.Gollin@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2471
Visiting Associate Professor
Office: South Academic Building 328
E-mail: Kiaran.Honderich@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4373
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Environmental Economics; Public Economics
Office: South Academic Building 327
E-mail: Yoshifumi.Konishi@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4766
Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: International Economics; Monetary policy implementation;Central Banks' efficiency
Office: South Academic Building 326
E-mail: Kenneth.N.Kuttner@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2300
Assistant Professor of Economics
Office: South Academic Building 206
Fields of Specialization: Income and Taxation Policies
Public Finance
E-mail: Sara.LaLumia@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4886
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Intersection between
macroeconomics and public finance. Current work examines the impact of
subsidized saving programs, such as the 401(k), on national saving.
Office: South Academic Building 202
E-mail: David.A.Love@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4473
Fred Greene Third Century Professor of Political Economy
Fields of Specialization: Open-economy
macroeconomics; macroeconomics in developing countries; economic growth.
Office: South Academic Building 302
E-mail: Peter.J.Montiel@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2103
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Economic History and Development Economics
On leave 2009 - 2010 academic year
E-mail: Steven.E.Nafziger@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2101
Associate Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Macroeconomics,
international finance, time series econometrics, empirical explanations
for the divergent growth processes experienced amoung countries.
Office: South Academic Building 304
E-mail: Peter.L.Pedroni@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2449
Associate Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Development, contract theory, the design of
microfinance schemes, testing for credit market imperfections, poverty
reduction through intervention in financial markets.
Office: South Academic Building 318
E-mail: Ashok.S.Rai@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2270
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: International trade;
macroeconomics; applied general equilibrium;
migration; industrial organization; monetary theory.
Office: South Academic Building 316
E-mail: Michael.M.Rolleigh@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4760
Senior Lecturer
Fields of Specialization: Macroeconomic issues;
monetary economics; financial liberalization in labor-intensive
countries; economic development issues in southern Africa, economics of
transitional economies.
On leave fall 2009
E-mail: Michael.Samson@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-3086
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Financial Economics, International Finance, Currency Market Microstructure
On leave 2009 - 2010 academic year
E-mail: Tanseli.Savaser@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4882
Associate Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Economics of the family,
public finance and labor economics, government transfer programs and
the well-being of low-income families, economics of gender.
Office: South Academic Building 201
E-mail: Lucie.G.Schmidt@williams.edu
Tel: (413)597-3143
Robert F. White Class of 1952 Professor of Economics, and Department
Chair
Fields of Specialization:Urban economics, land use
regulation, housing markets, local public finance and environmental
economics.
Office: South Academic Building 325
E-mail: stephen.c.sheppard@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-3184
Associate Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Health economics; labor
economics; poverty and welfare policy; wage distribution.
Office: South Academic Building 203
E-mail: lara.d.shore-sheppard@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2226
Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Economics of institutions
in developing countries; land, labor and credit markets in developing
countries; South Asia.
Office: South Academic Building 320
E-mail: Anand.V.Swamy@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2144
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Labor economics; public
finance; health economics; urban economics.
Office:South Academic Building 204
E-mail: Tara.Watson@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4709
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Development economics, health economics, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Office:South Academic Building 314
E-mail: Nicholas.L.Wilson@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4868
Orrin Sage Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus
Fields of Specialization: Economics of higher
education with an emphasis on collegiate wealth, subsidies, costs, peer
effects, quality, and hierarchy; lots of good issues where economics
and the real world meet.
E-mail: Gordon.C.Winston@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2271
Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Labor economics; poverty
and income distribution; technological change and unemployment;
discrimination in the labor market; the economics of education.
Office:South Academic Building 301
E-mail: David.J.Zimmerman@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2192