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Greg Burge

Greg Burge

Department Chair, Professor of Economics

Education: Ph.D., Florida State University, 2005

Fields: Urban Economics, Public Economics

Office: Room 170 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  W 10:30-11:30, or by appointment

Contact:  (405) 325-5857    gburge@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage      Curriculum Vitae

Firat Demir


Professor of Economics    

Education: Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2006

Fields: International Finance, Development Economics

Office: Room 436 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  M 9:00-11:00, in-person and via Zoom

Contact:  fdemir@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae

Pallab Ghosh


Associate Professor of Economics, Director of Graduate Studies    

Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2014

Fields: Labor Economics, Econometrics

Office: Room 323 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  TR 10:30-11:30, online, email professor for appt.

Contact:  pallab.ghosh@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage    Curriculum Vitae

Joan Hamory


Assistant Professor of Economics

Education:  Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2009

Fields:  Economic Development

Office:  Room 439 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  TR 1:30-2:30

Contact:  jhamory@ou.edu

Personal:  Faculty Webpage    Curriculum Vitae

Alexander Holmes


Regents Professor of Economics    

Education: Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton, 1974

Fields: Human Resources, Urban Economics, Microeconomic Theory

Office: Room 435 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  MW 10:30-11:30, and by appt.

Contact:  aholmes@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Samantha Johnson


Lecturer 

Education: Ph.D, Washington State University, 2021

Fields:  Agriculture, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

Office:  Room 325 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  W 2:00-4:00

Contact:  samrjohnson@ou.edu

Personal:  Faculty Webpage        Curriculum Vitae

Benjamin Keen


Associate Professor of Economics

Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2002

Fields: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics, Applied Time Series Econometrics

Office: Room 437 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  MW 12:30-1:30 and by appt, in-person and virtual

Contact:  ben.keen@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage    Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Myongjin Kim


Associate Professor of Economics    

Education: Ph.D., Boston University, 2013

Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics

Office: Room 432 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  

Contact: mjkim@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Georgia Kosmopoulou


Professor of Economics

Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts and Sciences

Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor of Economics 

Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1996

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization

Office: Room 425 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  

Contact:  georgiak@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Kevin Kuruc


Assistant Professor of Economics

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2019

Fields: Applied Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics

Office: Room 332 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  

Contact:  kkuruc@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage    Curriculum Vitae

Judith Liu


Assistant Professor of Economics

Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2019

Fields: Health Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics

Office:  Room 430 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  TW 1:00-2:00 or by appt., in-person

Contact: judith.liu@ou.edu

Personal:  Faculty Webpage        Curriculum Vitae

Qihong Liu


Professor of Economics   

Education: Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook, 2003

Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

Office: Room 426 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  MW 11:00-12:00 and by appt. in-person

Contact:  qliu@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae

Daniel Nedelescu


Assistant Professor of Economics       

Education: Ph.D., Purdue University, 2013

Fields: Industrial Organization, Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Office: Room 434 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  W 10:00-12:00, all office hours are virtual

Contact:  dnedelescu@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage    Curriculum Vitae

Brent Norwood


Lecturer

Education: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2020

Fields:  Public Policy, Education

Office:  Room 421 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  T 1:00-2:00 via Zoom, and R 1:00-2:00 in-person

Contact: bnorwood09@ou.edu

Personal:  Faculty Webpage           Curriculum Vitae

Jayash Paudel


Assistant Professor of Economics

Education:  Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019

Fields:  Environmental Economics, Development Economics

Office:  Room 422 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  R 1:30-2:30 in-person

Contact:  jayash.paudel@ou.edu

Personal:  Faculty Webpage      Curriculum Vitae

Tyler Ransom


Associate Professor of Economics

Education: Ph.D., Duke University, 2015

Fields: Labor Economics, Urban Economics, Economics of Education

Office: Room 322 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  M 3:00-4:00 and R 11:00-12:00

Contact:  ransom@ou.edu

Personal:  Faculty Webpage      Curriculum Vitae

Cynthia Rogers


Professor of Economics    

Education: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1994

Fields: Urban Economics, Public Policy, Labor Economics

Office: Room 423 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  MW 3:00-4:00

Contact:  crogers@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage    Curriculum Vitae

Hewei Shen


Assistant Professor of Economics

Education:  Ph.D., Indiana University, 2018

Fields:  International Economics, Macroeconomics, International Finance

Office:  Room 334 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  T 3:00-4:00 and W 4:00-5:00, or by appt, all office hours via Zoom

Contact:  hewei.shen@ou.edu

Personal:  Faculty Webpage      Curriculum Vitae

Chunbei Wang


Associate Professor of Economics    

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 2008

Fields: Labor Economics, Entrepreneurship

Office: Room 438 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  T 12:20-1:20 and by appt, via Zoom

Contact:  chunbei.wang@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae

Le Wang


Chong K. Liew Chair, Professor of Economics

President's Associates Presidential Professor    

Education: Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, 2006

Fields: Econometrics, Labor and Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics and Chinese Economy

Office: Room 440 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  M 2:00-3:00, via Zoom

Contact: le.wang@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae

Mu-Jeung Yang



Assistant Professor of Economics

Education:  Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2012

Fields:  Empirical Analysis

Office:  Room 428 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  T 10:30-11:30 for grad students, via Zoom and TR 1:45-2:45 for undergrad students, via Zoom

Contact: mjyang@ou.edu

Personal:  Faculty Webpage        Curriculum Vitae