George Boyer

George R. Boyer is a Professor in the Departments of Economics and International and Comparative Labor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He came to Cornell in 1982, after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 1990) and of numerous articles in the field of economic history. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic History and of Social Science History. He also has served as the Chair of the Department of Labor Economics and of the Department of International and Comparative Labor. He is a core member of Cornell's History of Capitalism Initiative.
Professor Boyer's current research examines various aspects of labor markets in Victorian Britain, including trends in working class living standards, the economics of poor relief and private charity, and unemployment and underemployment from 1870 to 1913. His book manuscript, “The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain, 1834-1950,” is under contract with Princeton University Press.
Professor Boyer’s teaching includes undergraduate courses on the Development of Economic Thought and Institutions, the Evolution of Social Policy in Britain and America, and Twentieth Century Economic History. He is the ILR School’s Director of Teaching, and chairs the School’s Teaching Advisory Committee.

Francine Blau

Francine D. Blau is Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, a Research Associate of the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research), and a Research Fellow of IZA (the Institute for the Study of Labor); CESIfo (Institute for Economic Research); and DIW (German Institute for Economic Research).She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and her BS from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Before returning to Cornell in 1994, she was on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Jennifer Wissink

Jennifer Wissink

Henry Wan

Henry Wan

Karl Shell

Karl Shell has been the Thorne Professor of Economics atCornell Universitysince 1986. Shell has been the editor of theJournal of Economic Theorysince its founding in 1968. In 2000,JETopened a second office to handle theincreasededitorial workload. The editor for the second office is currentlyChristian Hellwigof the Toulouse School of Economics.

Tapan Mitra

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Karel Mertens

Karel Mertens

Robert Masson

Robert Masson

Mukul Majumdar

Mukul Majumdar

Thomas Lyons

Tom Lyons studies economic development in China and, especially, in Fujian province. He teaches courses on China's economy and in US economic history.

Nicholas Kiefer

Nicholas M. Kiefer works primarily in econometrics and statistics with applications in financial economics, credit scoring and risk management in banking, consumer trend forecasting, and development of quantitative management techniques for the restaurant and retail industries. The unifying theme of the work is the complementary use of statistics and economic theory. Both statistical modeling and theoretical modeling are seen as tools to summarize and focus information. Theory and econometrics are treated as similar, complementary activities, not separate fields.

Don Kenkel

Donald Kenkel's expertise is in areas of health economics and public sector economics. Broadly speaking, most of his research is on the economics of disease prevention and health promotion. He is the author of the chapter on Prevention in the Handbook of Health Economics (2000). He has conducted a series of studies on the economics of public health policies, including: alcohol taxes and other policies to prevent alcohol problems (Journal of Applied Econometrics 2001, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 2005); cigarette taxes to prevent youth smoking (Journal of Political Economy 2002, Journal of Health Economics 2008); and advertising to promote smoking cessation (Journal of Political Economy 2007).His current research is on the economics of cigarette sales on Indian reservations (National Tax Journal 2015), the economics of tobacco regulation (Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 2015), and the market for e-cigarettes (Journal of Health Economics 2019).

Andrew Karolyi

Professor Karolyi is an internationally-known scholar in the area of investment management, with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. He has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and has published several books and monographs. His research has been covered extensively in print and electronic media, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Time, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and CNBC.

Ravi Kanbur

Ravi Kanburresearches and teaches in development economics, public economics and economic theory. He is well known for his role in policy analysis and engagement in international development. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank including as Chief Economist for Africa. He has also published in the leading economics journals, including Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory and Economic Journal.

Robert Jarrow

Professor Jarrow's teaching and research interests involve the study of mathematical finance. He is interested in derivatives, risk management, investments and asset pricing theory. Jarrow is currently engaged in research relating to asset management, liquidity risk, and risk management. He is a graduate faculty representative in four fields: management, economics, operations research and information engineering, and applied mathematics.

George Hay

George Hay is one of the foremost antitrust authorities in the United States. After he received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University, Hay taught economics at Yale University for five years, until he joined the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division in 1972. Hay served as Director of Economics, and won several awards for service to the Justice Department. Hay became a Professor of Law and a Professor of Economics at Cornell University in 1979, and was named to the Edward Cornell chair in the Law School in 1992. Professor Hay teaches a variety of law and law-related courses in both the Law School and the College of Arts and Sciences and lectures on antitrust throughout the United States and the rest of the world. He has appeared as an expert witness in many antitrust cases in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Micky Falkson

Micky Falkson

John Cawley

John Cawley is a Professor in the Department of Economics, and the Department of Policy Analysis and Management, at Cornell University. He is co-Director of Cornell's Institute on Health Economics, Health Behaviors and Disparities. His research focuses on the economics of risky health behaviors; in particular, those that relate to obesity.

Chris Barrett

Chris Barrett is Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and an International Professor of Agriculture, all at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, as well as a Professor in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and a Senior Faculty Fellow of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, all at Cornell University. He has won several university, national and international awards for teaching, research and public outreach, and is an elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and the African Association of Agricultural Economists.

Lexin Cai

Yaling Xu

Hyewon Kim

Hyewon Kim

Jacqueline Blair

Jacqueline Blair

Qingli Fan

Qingli Fan

Ruqing Xu

Ruqing Xu