Tulane Economics - Department Members

Marco Castaneda

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis

Research interests: microeconomic theory, industrial organization

302 Tilton Hall

504-862-8352

John Edwards

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Maryland

Research interests: public economics, public choice, economics of education, economic development, microeconomic theory

300 Tilton Hall

504-862-8357

edwards@tulane.edu

Keith Finlay

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

Research interests: labor economics, applied econometrics, urban economics, public policy

205 Tilton Hall

504-862-8345

Nora Lustig

Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Research interests: development, poverty and inequality, social policies, economics of Latin America

203 Tilton Hall

504-862-8347

Leandro Magnusson

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Brown University

Research interests: econometric theory (identification and hypothesis testing), applied econometrics, Bayesian econometrics

308 Tilton Hall

504-862-8355

lmagnuss@tulane.edu

Douglas Nelson

Professor

Ph.D. University of North Carolina

Research interests: political economy of trade

108 Tilton Hall

504-865-5317

Mary K. Olson

Associate Professor and Department Chair

Ph.D. Stanford University

Research interests: health economics, political economics, regulation and public policy

306 Tilton Hall

504-862-8342

molson3@tulane.edu

Jason Pearcy

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of Colorado

Research interests: industrial organization, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics, environment economics

207 Tilton Hall

504-862-8354

Jonathan Pritchett

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Research interests: U.S. economic history

309C Tilton Hall

504-862-8359

Jay Shimshack

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Research interests: environmental economics, applied economics, public policy

304 Tilton Hall

504-862-8353

jshimsha@tulane.edu

Myeong-Su Yun

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Rutgers University

Research interests: labor economics, econometrics, public economics

310 Tilton Hall

504-862-8356

Professors of practice and visiting faculty

Luciana Fiorini

Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Brown University

Research interests: microeconomics, economic theory, financial economics

209 Tilton Hall

504-862-8343

Claudiney Pereira

Professor of Practice

Ph.D. North Carolina State University

Research interests: economic growth, development economics, international trade, applied econometrics

312 Tilton Hall

504-862-8351

cpereira@tulane.edu

Toni Weiss

Lecturer

M.A. Tulane University

202 Tilton Hall

504-862-8348

tweiss@tulane.edu

Natalia Zhivan

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Boston College

Research interests: labor economics, applied economics, public economics

309A Tilton Hall

504-865-5320

nzhivan@tulane.edu

Emeritus faculty

Herman Freudenberger

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. Columbia University

Research interests: economic history of Europe (Hapsburg monarchy and Germany), history of work and industrial organization, tax farming

Yutaka Horiba

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. Purdue University

Research interests: international trade, regional economics, Japanese economy

yhoriba@tulane.edu

Staff

Paul Watson

Department Manager

B.A. Tulane University

206 Tilton Hall

504-862-8341

pwatson@tulane.edu

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