Department Members :
Jon Bakija, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Public sector economics; economic effects of taxation; tax reform and social security reform; charitable giving.
E-mail: Jon.M.Bakija@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2325
Roger E. Bolton, 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
Ralph M. Bradburd, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
Fields of Specialization: Industrial organization; political economy of regulation; developing economies in transition.
E-mail: Ralph.M.Bradburd@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2995
*Elizabeth Brainerd, Associate 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.
E-mail: Elizabeth.Brainerd@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4375
***Alan de Brauw, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Economic development and natural resources
E-mail: Alan.D.deBrauw@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4373
Henry J. Bruton, Visiting Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Fields of Specialization: Technological change; development economics; international trade involving developing countries; multinational firms; productivity growth in less developed countries.
E-mail: Henry.J.Bruton@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2357
Michael Fortunato, Visiting Professor of Economics
E-mail: Michael.Fortunato@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-3051
Robert Gazzale, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Industrial organization; internet economics; applied microeconomics;
experimental economics; learning in games
E-mail: rgazzale@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4375
*Chris Geiregat, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: General macroeconomics and monetary economics, in particular the role of financial intermediaries in the macroeconomy; the role of banks and other intermediaries in the transmission of the 1995 peso crisis into the Argentinian economy.
E-mail: Chris.R.A.Geiregat@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2325
William Gentry, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Issues in public finance and corporate finance, especially in how taxes affect household and business decisions.
E-mail: William.M.Gentry@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4257
*Douglas Gollin, Associate 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.
E-mail: Douglas.Gollin@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2471
Catharine Hill, John J. Gibson Professor of Economics and Provost of the College
Fields of Specialization: Economic development in Africa; macroeconomic management of commodity booms; international trade policy; consumption theory.
E-mail: Catharine.B.Hill@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4352
Kiaran Honderich, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
E-mail: Kiaran.Honderich@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-3086
**Kaye Husbands Fealing, William Brough Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Pricing strategies in the auto industry; technology transfer diffusion and innovation in emerging markets; strategic alliances between customers and suppliers; the competitive advantage of Mexican auto suppliers; NAFTA's effects on employment and investment.
E-mail: Kaye.G.Husbands@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2469
*Faruk Khan, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: International trade; economic growth and development; product-specific technological expertise in developing countries and its effect on factor accumulation and productivity.
E-mail: Faruk.A.Khan@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2408
Matthew Kotchen, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Environmental, natural resource, and public economics. Current research focuses on private provision of public goods, markets for "environmentally-friendly" goods and services, and the political economy of open-space conservation.
E-mail: Matthew.J.Kotchen@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2101
David Love, 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.
E-mail: David.A.Love@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-3213
*Anandi Mani, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Development economics, income inequality, human capital accumulation, political economy of development.
E-mail: Anandi.Mani@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-3051
Peter Montiel, Fred Greene Third Century Professor of Political Economy
Fields of Specialization: Open-economy macroeconomics; macroeconomics in developing countries; economic growth.
E-mail: Peter.J.Montiel@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2103
Mandar Oak, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Political economy, understanding coalitional politics in multi-party parliamentary democracies, economics of law enforcement, comparing alternative voting procedures.
E-mail: Mandar.P.Oak@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2300
*Peter Pedroni, Associate Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Macroeconomics, international finance, time series econometrics, empirical explanations for the divergent growth processes experienced amoung countries.
E-mail: Peter.L.Pedroni@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2449
Arturo Porzecanski, Visiting Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Open economy macroeconomics, international finance, emerging markets, Latin American economics.
Ashok Rai, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Design of financial institutions to promote development. In Particular, microcredit schemes such as the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.
E-mail: Ashok.S.Rai@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2270
Michael Rolleigh, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: International trade; macroeconomics; applied general equilibrium;
migration; industrial organization; monetary theory.
E-mail: Michael.M.Rolleigh@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4760
Michael Samson, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Macroeconomic issues; monetary economics; financial liberalization in labor-intensive countries; economic development issues in southern Africa, economics of transitional economies.
E-mail: Michael.Samson@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-3086
Morton Schapiro, Professor of Economics, College President
Fields of Specialization: Economics of higher education, with particular expertise in the area of college financing and affordability, and on trends in educational costs and student aid.
E-mail: Morton.Owen.Schapiro@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4233
Lucie Schmidt, Assistant 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.
E-mail: Lucie.G.Schmidt@williams.edu Tel: (413)597-3143
*Stephen Sheppard, James Phinney Baxter III Professor of Public Affairs
Fields of Specialization: Urban economics, land use regulation, housing markets, local public finance and environmental economics.
E-mail: stephen.c.sheppard@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-3184
*Lara Shore-Sheppard, Associate Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Health economics; labor economics; poverty and welfare policy; wage distribution.
E-mail: lara.d.shore-sheppard@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2226
**Anand Swamy, Associate Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Economics of institutions in developing countries; land, labor and credit markets in developing countries; South Asia.
E-mail: Anand.V.Swamy@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2144
Tara Watson, Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Labor economics; public finance; health economics; urban economics.
E-mail: Tara.Watson@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4709
Gordon C. Winston, Orrin Sage Professor of Political Economy
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
David Zimmerman, Professor of Economics, and Department Chair
Fields of Specialization: Labor economics; poverty and income distribution; technological change and unemployment; discrimination in the labor market; the economics of education.
E-mail: David.J.Zimmerman@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2192
*On leave 2004-05
** On leave Fall 2004
*** On leave Spring 2005
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