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Applied Economics

Applied Economics is offered as a minor field of study only, for students majoring in Computers and Information Systems, Operations Management, and Marketing.

Faculty and  Research Interests

• • James A. Brickley: His interests include corporate control, compensation policy, corporate finance, franchising, and banking.
  • Paul Ellickson: His research interests lie at the intersection between quantitative marketing and industrial organization, with a focus on using structural modeling.
  • Ronald W. Hansen
  • Gregg A. Jarrell: His interests include the economics of corporate control, economics of regulation, and applied corporate finance.
  • John B. Long Jr.: His research interests are primarily in the area of financial economics.
  • Susan Feng Lu: She specializes in industrial economics and economics of organizations. She is particularly interested in the health care industry.
  • Jeanine Miklós-Thal: She is interested in industrial organization, marketing, and personnel-economics.
  • Michael A. Raith: His interests include pricing strategies in the presence of market uncertainty, effects of financial constraints on firms behavior in product markets, performance evaluation in organizations, competition among firms, and optimal compensation policies and organizational structure within firms.
  • Ronald M. Schmidt: He is interested in pricing, regulation, and management compensation.
  • Greg Shaffer: He employs game-theoretic methods to study issues in pricing policies, antitrust and regulation, distribution channels, vertical restraints, and other marketing topics.
  • Minjae Song: He develops empirical models of consumer demand, benefit from technology innovation, R&D, and other industrial economics areas.
  • Clifford W. Smith Jr.
  • Jerold B. Warner: His teaching and research interests include portfolio theory, capital markets, and corporate finance.
  • Gerard Wedig: He applies corporate finance, governance, and organizational economics to study issues in the health care industry.