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Bruce L. Brown, Ph.D. (University of South
Carolina)
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| Professor of Economics |
| Office: HH 201 L |
| Phone: 294.3319 |
| Email: bruce.brown@furman.edu |
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Bruce Brown joined the
Furman economics faculty in 1984. He has teaching interests in the
areas of macroeconomics, growth theory, money and banking, financial
institutions, business finance, and personal finance. Professor Brown
is a familiar personality on the airwaves, having done numerous
interviews for the local media on economic topics of regional and local
interest. His course in personal finance is among the most popular at
Furman.
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| "There's No Free Lunch: Funding
Social Security is More Than a Matter of Money," in David E. Redburn
and Robert P. McNamara (eds.), Social
Gerontology (1998): 237-240. |
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| Nathan Cook, Ph.D.
(Michigan State University) |
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| Assistant Professor of
Economics |
| Office: HH 201 T |
| Phone: 294.3026 |
| Email: nathaniel.cook@furman.edu |
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Nathan Cook joined the Furman economics
faculty in 2008. His teaching interests include
international trade, microeconomic theory, and applied
microeconomics. Professor Cook's current research focuses on
issues related to trade policy
and foreign direct investment.
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“Competition in Economics,” with Kailash
Khandke, in Competition: A
Multidiscplinary Analysis, Wade B. Worthen, A. Scott Henderson,
Paul R. Rasmussen, and T. Lloyd Benson, eds. (Boston: Sense Publishers,
2009).
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“Motivations for Export Platform FDI as a
Strategy for Serving Foreign Markets,” working paper.
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| Jessica
Hennessey, Ph.D. (University
of Maryland at College Park) |
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Assistant
Professor of Economics
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| Office:
HH 201 R |
| Phone:
294.3556 |
| Email: jessica.hennessey@furman.edu |
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| Jessica Hennessey
joined the Furman
economics
faculty in the fall of 2009. She received her Ph.D. from the
University
of Maryland at College Park where her dissertation research focused on
the study of institutional change from a fiscal federalism framework,
with a particular focus on the local and state government. Her
teaching interests include public finance,
economic history, microeconomics, and econometrics. |
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"The Adoption of Constitutional Home
Rule: A Test of Endogenous Policy Decentralization," working paper.
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| Mary Jean Horney, Ph.D.
(Duke University) |
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| Frederick W. Symmes Professor
of Economics |
| Office: HH 201 I |
| Phone: 294.3315 |
| Email: jean.horney@furman.edu |
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Jean Horney joined the
Furman economics faculty in 1979. Professor Horney's teaching
interests
include microeconomic theory, labor economics, research and statistical
methods, and the economics of gender. She is also very involved
as a
faculty member with the interdisciplinary Women's Studies
concentration. A respected scholar, Professor Horney's article on
"Nash-Bargained Household Decisions" is seminal to the field. Her
more
recent research has focused on the employed job search behavior of
young women.
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| "Employed Job Search Among Young
Workers: The Role of Marriage and Children," with Jeffrey Yankow,
currently under review. |
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| "The Household Allocation
Problem: Empirical Results from a Bargaining Model," with Marjorie
McElroy in Paul T. Schultz (ed.), Research in Population
Economics, Volume 6. Greenwich, Conn. and London: JAI Press
(1988): 15-38. |
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| "Nash-Bargained Household
Decisions: Toward a Generalization of the Theory of Demand," with
Marjorie McElroy. International
Economic Review 22(2) (June 1981): 333-349. |
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| Jason Jones, Ph.D.
(University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
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| Assistant Professor of
Economics |
| Office: HH 201 S |
| Phone: 294.3024 |
| Email: jason.jones@furman.edu |
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Jason Jones joined the Furman economics
faculty in 2008. His current research focuses on issues
related to budgetary balances and restrictions in the European Monetary
Union. His teaching interests include macroeconoimcs, monetary
and
fiscal policy, and European integration. Professor Jones is also
the faculty advisor to the Furman Fed Challenge Team.
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"Fiscal Management or Fiscal Fatigue?
Budgetary Balances Soon after Joining the EMU," currently under review.
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"Monetary and Fiscal Interaction in a
Monetary Union," working paper.
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"The Balassa-Samuelson Effect in a DSGE
Model," working paper.
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| Kailash Khandke, Ph.D.
(University of California - Davis) |
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| Assistant Dean for Study Away and
International Education |
| and Professor of Economics |
| Office: HH 201 T |
| Phone: 294.3316 |
| Email: kailash.khandke@furman.edu |
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Kailash Khandke joined the
Furman economics faculty in 1995. His teaching interests include
international trade, macroeconomics, and economic growth and
development with a particular specialization in the economies of Asia.
Besides his involvement with the interdisciplinary Asian Studies
program at Furman, Professor Khandke is also the Assistant Dean
for Study Away and International Education. Excellent in the classroom,
Professor Khandke was awarded the Alester G. Furman, Jr. and
Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching in 2007.
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| "From Rhythm and Blues to
Broadway: Using Music to Teach Economics," with Frank D. Tinari. Journal of Economic Education
31(3) (Summer 2000): 253-270. |
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| "Comment: Developing an On-Line
Textbook: Question-Led Teaching and the World Wide Web." Journal of Economic Education
30(3) (Summer 1999): 222-224. |
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| Economics: An Honors
Companion (written to accompany David Colander's Economics,
2nd Ed.) with Sunder Ramaswamy, Jenifer Gamber and David C. Colander.
Maxipress, 1995. |
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| Kenneth D.
Peterson, Ph.D. (SUNY-Stony Brook) |
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| John D. Hollingsworth, Jr. Professor of
Economics |
| and Department Chair |
| Office: 201 U |
| Phone: 294.3043 |
| Email: ken.peterson@furman.edu |
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Ken Peterson joined the
Furman economics faculty in 1990. Professor Peterson's teaching
interests include microeconomic theory, urban economics, population
economics, environmental economics, and research methods. An
outstanding
teacher, Professor Peterson has been the recipient of the Alester
G. Furman, Jr. and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious
Teaching.
An active scholar, his recent research interests have been in the areas
of hedonic house pricing, contingent valuation, and social
capital.
Professor Peterson has also co-authored numerous research papers with
undergraduate students through the Economics Department's summer
research program.
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| "Estimating Price Models: Do
Results Vary by Data Source and Sample Characteristics" with Joseph Von
Nessen, currently revise and resubmit. |
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| "The Tangency Requirement Between
Average Revenue and Average Cost Curves" with Kailash Khandke. Atlantic Economic Journal
30 (2) (June 2002): 219. |
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| "Using a Geographic Information
System to Teach Economics." Journal
of Economic Education 31(2) (Spring 2000): 169-178. |
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| R. David Roe, Ph.D.
(Duke University) |
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| Professor of Economics |
| Office: HH 201 H |
| Phone: 294.3320 |
| Email: david.roe@furman.edu |
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Dave Roe joined the Furman
economics faculty in 1977. An outstanding teacher, Professor Roe's
classroom interests have focused primarily on statistics and public
finance. Professor Roe has also been the recipient of various
teaching
and advising awards, including the Alester G. Furman, Jr. and Janie
Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Advising. An avid sports enthusiast,
he developed and teaches the popular Economics of Sports class, and
serves as general manager of the Furman faculty softball team.
Professor Roe is
also a former department chair and editor of the Economics Department
newsletter, Ceteris
Paribus.
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| Jeffrey J. Yankow, Ph.D.
(The Ohio State University) |
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| David C. Garrett, Jr. Associate Professor
of Economics |
| Office: HH 201 S |
| Phone: 294.3321 |
| Email: jeff.yankow@furman.edu |
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Vitae |
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Jeff Yankow joined the
Furman economics faculty in 1999. His research focuses on such diverse
economic issues as the pecuniary returns to migration and geographic
mobility, the
effect of neighborhoods on work behavior, the patterns of job search
among young workers, and the impact of advertising on mutual fund asset
flows. He teaches courses in labor economics, applied
microeconomics, history of economic thought, economics of poverty, and
a freshman seminar on Adam Smith and
the Wealth of Nations.
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| "Why Do Cities Pay More? An
Empirical Examination of Some Competing Theories of the Urban Wage
Premium," Journal of Urban Economics 60(2)
(September 2006): 139-161. |
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| "Do Neighborhoods Affect Hours
Worked? Evidence from Longitudinal Data," with Bruce A.Weinberg and
Patricia B. Reagan, Journal
of Labor Economics 22 (4) (October 2004): 891-924. |
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| "Migration, Job Change, and Wage
Growth: A New Perspective on the Pecuniary Return to Geographic
Mobility." Journal of
Regional Science 43 (3) (August 2003): 483-516. |
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