As a learner-centered and discovery-driven institution, Western Michigan University values the research of its faculty. The following lists the research interests of faculty members in the Department of Economics.
Faculty research areas
- Economic growth and development
- Asymmetric information theory
- Environmental and natural resource economics
- Land use decision modeling
- Health economics
- Econometric theory and time series analysis
- Empirical monetary economics
- Finance
- Labor economics
- Applied microeconomics
- Economic growth and business cycle
- Asset pricing
- Monetary policy
- Labor supply
- Labor economics
- Applied microeconomics
- Uncertainty and insurance
- Economic development
- Natural resource management in developing countries
- Rural poverty in Africa
- Applications of econometrics for analyzing issues related to foreign-aid
- Health in developing countries
- Immigration
- Nonparametric modeling
- Panel data analysis
- Variable-selection-problems in econometrics
- Public finance
- Environmental economics
- International finance
- International migration
- Foreign direct investment
- Multinational enterprises
- International trade