ECON - Key Persons
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- Instructional Associate Professor
Adel Varghese teaches Economic Development and Economics of Microfinance. His research is on linkages between banks and other credit institutions and on non-experimental approaches in impact evaluation.
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- Visiting Assistant Professor
Alexander L. Brown is a full professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Social Science from California Institute of Technology in 2008. His research focuses on the two specialized fields: cognitive biases in judgment and decision-making, and game theory, both of which he often-though not exclusively-examines through the lens of experimental economics. His publications include 21 peer-reviewed journal articles, one book chapter, and one encyclopedia article. His work has appeared in top journals across business, economics and general science including Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, and Nature Human Behavior. He has been a part of several sources of external funding, totaling roughly $3.3 million, from sources such as the Federal Highway Administration and National Science Foundation. He served as associate editor at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization from 2014-2020 and as a visiting scholar to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2017-2020.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor at Texas
Amy Glass is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University who teaches courses in Microeconomic Theory.
Andrew Barr's research focuses on understanding the role of financial and informational factors in the college decisions and related labor market outcomes of non-traditional students. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the American Educational Research Association. Barr holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Virginia and he is a research affiliate with CESifo.
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- Instructional Assistant Professor
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- Instructional Assistant Professor
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- Assistant to the Department Head
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- Associate Professor of Practice
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor at Texas
Danila Serra is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M. Her research interests include: Economics of Corruption, Development Economics; Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Gender and Economics
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- Program Manager - Behavioral Economics & Policy Program
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- Distinguished Professor
- Primary Advisor
- Professor
Catherine Eckel is Sara and John Lindsey Professor in the Liberal Arts and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Behavioral Economics and Policy Program. She has held faculty positions at the University of British Columbia, Virginia Tech, and the University of Texas at Dallas, where she was founder and director of the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Science. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1983.
Dr. Eckel is an award-winning teacher, and enjoys engaging undergraduate students in original research projects. She has advised 15 PhD dissertations, and her students hold faculty positions in the US and around the world. In January 2013, Dr. Eckel was awarded the prestigious Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, given annually by the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, for her work developing and participating in mentoring programs for women assistant professors.
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- Alfred F. Chalk Professor
Dr. Guoqiang Tian, Alfred F. Chalk Professor of Economics, is an economic theorist with broad theoretical interests focusing on mechanism design theory, game theory, auction theory, matching theory, mathematical economics, economic transition and Chinese economy. He is currently working on mechanism design in various settings including optimal and dynamic contract design, the existence of Nash equilibrium in discontinuous games, auction with participant costs, matching issues, full characterization on fixed-point theorems and related theorems, and China's reform. Professor Tian is a recent recipient of the Sun Yefang Award - the highest honor in economic science in China for his book "China's Reform: History, Logic and Future." He serves as the Chief Editor of Frontiers of Economics in China and Co-editor of Annals of Economics and Finance.
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- Visiting Assistant Professor / Visiting Assistant Professor
Dr. M. Jahangir Alam is coming from Western Michigan University. His research and teaching interests include:
Fernando Luco's research focuses Empirical Industrial Organization and Applied Microeconomics. In his latest work he has studied how information disclosure affects competition, how mergers may affect strategic sophistication, and how coexisting sources of switching costs affect pricing decisions and consumer choices.
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- Director of Masters Program
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
Dr. Naufal is an Associate Research Scientist at the Public Policy Research Institute (PPRI) at Texas A&M University, a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and Economic Research Forum (ERF). Previously he was the Technical Director at Timberlake Consultants. He was also an Assistant/Associate Professor of Economics at The American University of Sharjah (2007 to 2014) in the United Arab Emirates. George earned his Ph.D. in Economics in 2007 from Texas A&M University. His area of expertise is applied econometrics with applications to labor economics including criminal justice, conflict, education, migration, demographics, and unemployment. He has published several journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Naufal has acted as a principal investigator or co-principal investigator for projects totaling over $14 million in funding including grants from the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, Google, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Caruth Foundation, and Arnold Ventures. His work has been cited by regional and international media outlets such as the New York Times, Bloomberg, the Washington Post, and NPR.
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- Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs
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- Assistant Department Head
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- Visiting Associate Professor / Industrial Organization
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- Assistant
- Program Director
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- Director of Undergraduate Programs
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Masters Program Coordinator
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- Instructional Associate Professor
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- Associate Professor of Practice
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- Visiting Assistant Professor
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- Instructional Associate Professor
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- Director of Graduate Programs