Meet Our Faculty

Erol Balkan, Professor of Economics

B.A. and M.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton

Areas of expertise: formation of middle classes in developing countries, effects of short-term capital flows on the Turkish economy and economic development, international finance and political economy of the Middle East

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Emily Conover, Associate Professor of Economics

econover@hamilton.edu

B.A. Wellesley College; M.Ec., Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Areas of expertise: international economic development and labor economics

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Christophre Georges, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics

cgeorges@hamilton.edu

B.A., Connecticut College; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Michigan

Areas of expertise: macroeconomics

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Paul Hagstrom, Professor of Economics

phagstro@hamilton.edu

B.A., St. Olaf College; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Areas of expertise: economics of poverty, immigration and immigrant policy

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Elizabeth Jensen, Professor of Economics

ejensen@hamilton.edu

B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Areas of expertise: industrial organization, teaching industrial organization, the predictors of academic success in college and student course choice, antitrust and regulation and American economic history, and microeconomic theory

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Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics

djones@hamilton.edu

B.A., Newcastle Upon Tyne; M.Sc., London School of Economics; Ph.D., Cornell University

Areas of expertise: employee participation and human resource management practices, including employee ownership; insider econometrics, cooperatives, transition economies and Internet economics

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Ann Owen, Chair, Professor of Economics and the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Public Policy

aowen@hamilton.edu

B.A., Boston University; M.B.A., Babson College; M.A. and Ph.D., Brown University

Areas of expertise: long-run growth, inequality, and sustainability

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Javier Pereira, Assistant Professor of Economics

jpereira@hamilton.edu

B.S., Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Washington

Areas of expertise: financial economics, banking, international finance

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Jeffrey Pliskin, Associate Professor of Economics

jpliskin@hamilton.edu

B.A., SUNY Binghamton; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Michigan

Areas of expertise: profit sharing and flexible workplace practices and their effects on firm performance, prior information and biased estimation methods

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