Economics Faculty at Williams College

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Jon Bakija

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

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.
Office: South Academic Building 207
E-mail: Ralph.M.Bradburd@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2995

Elizabeth Brainerd

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.
Office: South Academic Building 326
E-mail: Elizabeth.Brainerd@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2408

Henry J. Bruton

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

Gerard Caprio

Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Financial sector development, financial regulation, financial history and crises; money and banking and economic development.
Office: South Academic Building 305
E-mail: Gerard.Caprio@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2465

Visiting Professor of Economics
Office: South Academic Building 204
E-mail: Michael.Fortunato@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-3051

Robert Gazzale

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

William Gentry

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

Douglas Gollin

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.
Office: Harper House 9
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

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.
Office: South Academic Building 301
E-mail: Kaye.G.Husbands@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2469

Yoshifumi Konishi

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

Kenneth Kuttner

Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: International Economics; Monetary policy implementation;Central Banks' efficiency
Office: South Academic Building 312
E-mail: Kenneth.N.Kuttner@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2300

Sara LaLumia

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

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.
Office: South Academic Building 202
E-mail: David.A.Love@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4473

Peter Montiel

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
Office: South Academic Building 335
E-mail: Steven.E.Nafziger@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2101

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.
Office: South Academic Building 304
E-mail: Peter.L.Pedroni@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2449

Ashok Rai

Assistant 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

Michael Rolleigh

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

Michael Samson

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.
Office: South Academic Building 307
E-mail: Michael.Samson@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-3086

Assistant Professor of Economics
Fields of Specialization: Financial Economics, International Finance, Currency Market Microstructure
Office: South Academic Building 306
E-mail: Tanseli.Savaser@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4882

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.
Office: Hopkins Hall
E-mail: Morton.Owen.Schapiro@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-4233

Lucie Schmidt

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

Stephen Sheppard

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

Lara Shore-Sheppard

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

Anand Swamy

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

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

Nicholas Wilson

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

Gordon C. Winston

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

David Zimmerman

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 303
E-mail: David.J.Zimmerman@williams.edu Tel: (413) 597-2192

Faculty on Leave 2008-2009

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