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Economics

Mario L. Belotti
W.M. Keck Foundation Professor

A complete list of Dr. Belotti's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of Texas, Austin
  • M.S. in Accounting and B.S. in Business, Midwestern University

Profile

Professor Belotti teaches courses in principles of economics, macroeconomics and money and banking. His major research and consulting interests are in banking, agricultural development projects and macroeconomic policy. Professor Belotti prepares annually a widely respected economic forecast, and organizes twice yearly economic symposia, in which distinguished economic visitors are brought to campus. His articles have appeared in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Land Economics, Santa Clara Business Review, and The San Jose Business Journal. He has worked as an economic consultant on projects sponsored by such organizations as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the United States Agency for International Development. Professor Belotti served as Chairman of the Economics department from 1962 to 1983, and was Director of the Food and Agribusiness Institute from 1988 to 1996.

Henry G. Demmert
Associate Professor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs

A complete list of Dr. Demmert's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics, Stanford University
  • B.S. in Economics, Santa Clara University

Profile

Professor Demmert teaches undergraduate courses in the fields of principles of economics, economics and law, and economics of the public sector. His areas of research interest are the Austrian school of economics, antitrust law, and economic education. Professor Demmert has published in the Journal of Applied Economics and The Santa Clara Business Review, has written a book entitled The Economics of Professional Team Sports, and is the author of the introductory textbook, Economics: Understanding the Market Process. He has done consulting work for CALTRANS, The National Football League Players Association, and various law firms. In 1980-81 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Economic Policy Office, Antitrust Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice. He is currently Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Leavey School of Business.

William F. Donnelly, S.J.
Professor

A complete list of Father Donnellys publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, New York University
  • Master of Sacred Theology, Santa Clara University
  • M.A. in Economics, Gonzaga University
  • B.S. in Commerce, Santa Clara University

Profile

Professor Donnelly teaches courses in international economics, international business and principles of economics. He is currently completing a book on Ethics and Microeconomics, (co-authored with John Piderit, S.J., of Loyola University at Chicago). Most recently his research activity has also included exports of American motion pictures to England, Australia and Singapore. He has served as consulter to the Vice Provincial for Education, California Province of the Society of Jesus (1973?75) and has been a member of the Board of Regents (1985 to 1988) and Board of Trustees (1973?87, 1982?88) for Santa Clara University and also on the Board of Trustees (1973?83) for Loyola Marymount University. Prof. Donnelly is past Rector of the Jesuit Community of Santa Clara University, and served as the University's Academic Vice President from 1973 to 1978.

Alexander J. Field
Michael and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics

A complete list of Dr. Fields publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • M.S. in Economics, London School of Economics
  • A.B. in Economics, Harvard University

Profile

Professor Field's current research is in two main areas. The first, aimed at better integrating the human sciences, is reflected in his recent book Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity, which won the 2003 Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award in the Social Sciences. The second is in macroeconomic history with a focus on technology and productivity. His article "The Most Technologically Progressive Decade of the Twentieth Century" appeared in the September 2003 American Economic Review.

Professor Field is Editor of Research in Economic History and is on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Bioeconomics. He has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature (1981-2004) and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic History and Explorations in Economic History. At Santa Clara he has served as acting Academic Vice President (1986-87), on the University's Board of Trustees (1988-91), as Associate and Acting Dean of the Leavey School of Business between 1993 and 1997, and as chair of the Economics Department between 1988 and 1993. In September 2004, he began a five year term as Executive Director of the Economic History Association.

Fred E. Foldvary
Lecturer

A complete list of Dr. Foldvary's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University.
  • M.A., Economics, George Mason University.
  • BA., Economics and computer science, University of California, Berkeley.

Profile

Fred Foldvary teaches undergraduate courses in microeconomics and macroeconomics. He is also a faculty associate of the Civil Society Institute at Santa Clara University. His research interests include public finance, business cycles, land economics, and social ethics. His books include Public Goods and Private Communities and Dictionary of Free-Market Economics.

Deborah Garvey
Lecturer of Economics

A complete listing of Dr. Garvey's publications is available online.

Deborah Garvey, Academic Lecturer in the Economics Department at Santa Clara University, earned her Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University. Professor Garvey has taught courses in microeconomics principles, intermediate microeconomic theory, public economics, the economics of poverty and inequality, statistics, and the economics of immigration.

Her research interests straddle labor economics, public economics, and demography (migration) with a primary emphasis on immigrant incorporation. Her immigration research has focused on the economic assimilation of immigrants into US labor markets and their fiscal impacts on state and local governments. Her current work examines the adaptation of immigrant youth and its implications for education policy, and in particular, on the factors that influence the educational attainment of immigrant children (first, second, and 'third-plus'; generations). The other thread of her research addresses school finance issues, in particular, the impact of K-12 education finance schemes on the level and distribution of per-pupil spending. She is embarking on a new project that examines the role academic field plays in whether female faculty earn a premium or a penalty in the U.S. academic labor market relative to their male peers. She has published articles in a number of edited volumes and monographs, and in Social Science Quarterly, and is currently working on two articles for submission to Economics of Education Review and Journal of Urban Economics.

Professor Garvey serves on two non-profit boards, one that raises funds to support her local public library, and the other that works to establish, staff, and support village libraries in rural Burkina Faso and Ghana. Her copious free time is spent keeping up with her young son, viewing the occasional film at her neighborhood art cinema, reading contemporary non-fiction on politics, poverty or labor market policy, and relaxing with a novel by an American, Indian, or Middle Eastern author. Jane Austen is her brain-regenerative, all-time favorite author. As a result of exogamy, Professor Garvey speaks fluent French and enjoys meeting other Francophones. She speaks passable German if the listener doesn't object to the commonly mis-inserted French word.

John M. Heineke
Professor

A complete list of Dr. Heineke's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of Iowa
  • B.A. in Economics, St. Ambrose College

Profile

Professor Heineke teaches courses in statistical theory, optimization, and microeconomics for business decision making. His primary research interests are in microeconomic theory in the areas of aggregation and identification, and decision making under conditions of risk and uncertainty. He is also interested in problems involved in modeling human behavior and has contributed extensively to the literature devoted to modeling criminal behavior. He has published a successful textbook entitled Microeconomics for Business Decision Making and a monograph entitled Economic Models of Criminal Behavior. His more than 40 papers have appeared in such journals as The Review of Economic Studies, The American Economic Review, The Journal of Economic Theory, The Journal of Political Economy, and The Review of Economics and Statistics.

Linda Kamas
Associate Professor

A complete listing of Dr. Kamas' publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • M.A. in Latin American Studies
  • A.B. in History, University of California, Los Angeles

Profile

Professor Kamas teaches in the areas of macroeconomics, Latin American economic and international economics. Her major research interests are in macroeconomics and international finance in Latin America, with special emphasis on inflation, and monetary and exchange rate policy. Her research has been published in World Development, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Journal of International Economics. She served with the Peace Corps in Colombia from 1971-72 and is fluent in Spanish.

Michael Kevane
Associate Professor

A complete listing of Dr. Kevane's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • B.S. in Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Profile

Professor Kevane teaches courses on African Economic Development, the Economics of Emerging Markets, International Economics, and has taught the Environmental Studies Capstone course. He has published articles on the performance of Sudanese rural institutions and markets in journals such as Review of Development Economics, World Development, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Africa. He is also co-editor (with Endre Stiansen) of a book, Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incorporation and Sectoral Transformation in Islamic Africa, published by E.J. Brill. He currently works on gender issues, including a research project in southwestern Burkina Faso investigating how social norms determine home and market production, and the allocation of time more generally, for women in rural areas, and another research project using Indonesian data to explore the effects of social and parental preference for boys rather than girls. In addition to English, Professor Kevane speaks fluent Spanish and French, and is competent in Sudanese colloquial Arabic.

Kris James Mitchener
Assistant Professor

A complete listing of Dr. Mitchener's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • B.A. in Economics and History, University of California, Berkeley

Profile

Kris James Mitchener is currently Assistant Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001 and his B.A. from the UC Berkeley in 1991. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and at the Bank of Japan. His research interests include financial regulation and supervision, economic growth, sovereign debt crises, and the economic effects of empire. Dr. Mitchener’s research has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic History, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Economic Growth, and Research in Economic History.

Helen Popper
Associate Professor
Department Chair

A complete listing of Dr. Popper's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of California at Berkeley
  • B.A. in Economics, University of California, Davis

Profile

Professor Popper teaches courses in international economics, international macroeconomics, international business, and econometrics. Her current research explores the determinants of real exchange rates, the links between foreign exchange rates and prices, and the actions of central banks in the foreign exchangemarkets.

She has published articles on foreign exchange market intervention, foreign exchange rates and prices, inflation, central bank activities, and foreign exchange market hedging in such journals as the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Contributions to Macroeconomics, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. She has also published a book on international capital mobility.

Before coming to Santa Clara, Professor Popper worked at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C., where she routinely briefed the Board on international economic and financial developments. Along the way, she has been a visiting scholar at the Bank of Mexico and at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and a visiting associate professor at U.C. Berkeley. She has consulted for the World Bank and in the utility industry, and she has worked for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and for Bank of America, providing econometric models and forecasts.

In her spare time, she enjoys windsurfing, native gardening, and relaxing with her husband and young daughter.

Thomas Russell
Associate Professor

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Professor Russell teaches courses in macroeconomics, microeconomics, and decision-making under uncertainty. His more than 30 scholarly articles have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Economic Theory, American Economic Review, Economic Letters, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of Mathematical Economics. His current research interests include: applying differential geometry to the study of rational and non-rational behavior, and the analysis of the relationship between capital markets and insurance markets.

Dongsoo Shin
Assistant Professor

A complete listing of Dr. Shin's publications is available online

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of Washington
  • MBA in Finance, University of San Francisco
  • BS in Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University

Profile

Dr. Shin teaches courses in microeconomics, game theory, and industrial organization. His research interests include agency theory, information economics, and industrial organization. Among Dr. Shin's recent research are optimal task design, organizational flexibility and task allocation, imposing limited liability as a strategic devise, and choice of technology in outsourcing relationships. He has published in Information Economics and Policy and International Journal of Industrial Organization.

William A. Sundstrom
Professor

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, Stanford University
  • B.A. in Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Profile

Professor Sundstrom teaches courses in microeconomics, economic history, labor economics, ethics and economic thought, and the history of economic thought. His research interests are in American economic history, especially the history of labor markets, and the economics of racial discrimination. Professor Sundstrom has published articles in American Economic Review, Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Industrial Relations.