Erol Balkan's current research focuses on the formation of middle classes through education and financial liberalization in developing countries. He has received several awards and grants for his work, including the International Development Research Center Grant in 1996 to study the effects of short term capital flows on the Turkish economy. Balkan teaches economic development, international finance and political economy of the Middle East at Hamilton and has lectured as a visiting professor at Bilkent University in Ankara and Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Emily Conover’s current research interests include health policy, corruption and formal and informal labor markets, among other topics in applied microeconomics. She grew up in Colombia and came to the United States for her undergraduate studies at Wellesley College. She then studied economics at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and went on to earn her doctorate in economics from U.C. Berkeley.
Christophre Georges' research focuses on macroeconomic dynamics, and his current research includes work on learning and agent-based modeling in macroeconomics and finance. Georges teaches courses in macroeconomic theory, game theory and the history of economic thought. He has lectured as a visiting professor at Washington University and the University of Michigan and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. He earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan and joined the Hamilton faculty in 1989.
Since coming to Hamilton in 1991, Paul Hagstrom has published many papers, mainly focusing on his interest and teaching field, which is the economics of poverty. His research now focuses on immigration and immigrant policy. Currently he is working on “The Role of Networks in Immigrant and Refugee Entrepreneurship.” Hagstrom, who is involved with the President’s Planning Committee and the Oral Communication Committee, is a former director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center. He earned his master's and doctorate at the University of Wisconsin.
Mike Hsu's research and teaching interests are macroeconomics, international trade, productivity and economic growth. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Houston in 2016. Hsu earned his master's degree in economics from the California State University, Fullerton, and his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Southern California. He previously taught at the University of Houston.
Elizabeth Jensen is co-author of Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice, a leading industrial organization textbook developed in part from experiences teaching students at the College. Her recent work investigates pedagogical questions arising in teaching industrial organization, the predictors of academic success in college and student course choice. She has twice been honored for her teaching, having been chosen as the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor for 2011-14 and receiving the Class of 1962 Outstanding Teaching Award in 2002. She earned her bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and doctorate from M.I.T.
Derek Jones has published more than 130 articles in journals and book chapters and has edited eight books. Jones, who works in the areas of employee ownership and cooperatives, undertook some of the first empirical analysis of long-established worker cooperatives and firms with employee ownership and employee participation. He earned his doctorate at Cornell University.
Michael O’Hara's recent work has focused on the benefits of voluntary sustainability efforts, in particular on climate neutrality commitments made by colleges and universities. He is committed to the cause of increasing transparency and reproducibility in empirical research. He is working to do that through his teaching, research, and his involvement with the Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research Project. O'Hara's research areas are environmental and natural resource economics and applied econometrics. Outside the classroom, O'Hara enjoys trail running, mountaineering, fly-fishing and any other reason to be out in the woods and mountains. He received his doctorate from the State University of New York Binghamton University and taught at Colgate University before coming to Hamilton.
Ann Owen, formerly a Federal Reserve economist, earned a doctorate from Brown University and a master's of business administration from Babson College. She has diverse research interests and has published papers on long-run growth and income distribution as well as teaching economics to undergraduates. Examples of her current research projects include an examination of how the process of economic growth varies across countries, a study of the role of ethnic fractionalization in economic development and an investigation into the ways in which banks influence long-run economic growth. Owen teaches courses in economic growth, monetary policy, macroeconomic theory and statistics. She maintains her own professional website.
Javier M. Pereira's research interests are in financial intermediation, credit risk and international finance. Pereira's current research focuses on the role of underwriter reputation in financial market stability. He worked previously as a consultant in the Latin America finance and private sector development unit at The World Bank. Prior to joining the bank he was an associate analyst on the Structured Finance Team at Moody’s Investor Service and a research analyst at Consultatio Asset Management. Pereira has taught courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics and finance at the University of Washington. He received his bachelor of arts and post-graduate degree in economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. His master’s degree and doctorate in economics are from the University of Washington in Seattle.
