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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:  TR 10:00-11:00, in-person

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

Personal: Faculty Webpage      Curriculum Vitae

Firat Demir


Professor of Economics, Director of Graduate Studies    

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

Contact:  fdemir@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae

Pallab Ghosh


Associate Professor of Economics    

Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2014

Fields: Labor Economics, Econometrics

Office: Room 323 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  

Contact:  pallab.ghosh@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage    Curriculum Vitae

Joan Hamory


Associate Professor of Economics

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

Fields:  Economic Development

Office:  Room 439 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  

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, email professor for appt.

Contact:  aholmes@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Samantha Johnson


Lecturer of Economics

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, in person

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)

Ibrahim Kekec


Lecturer of Economics

Education: Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2021

Fields: Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Machine Learning, Labor Economics

Office: Room 332 Cate Center 1

Office Hours: WR 4:30-6:30, in-person and virtual

Contact: ibrahim.kekec-1@ou.edu

Personal:  Faculty Webpage    Curriculum Vitae

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:  W 10:00-12:00 via Zoom, and R 1:00-3:00 in-person, and by appt.

Contact: mjkim@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae

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 306, Ellison Hall

Office Hours:  

Contact:  georgiak@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

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:  W 11:30-12:30, 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 3:00-4:00 in-person, and by appt.

Contact:  qliu@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage     Curriculum Vitae

Chris Malloy


Assistant Professor of Economics

Education: Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara, 2023

Fields:  Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Law Economics

Office:  Room 335 Cate Center 1

Office Hours:  

Contact:  christopher.malloy-1@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:  TR 12:00-1:00, via Zoom and by appt

Contact:  dnedelescu@ou.edu

Personal: Faculty Webpage    Curriculum Vitae

Brent Norwood


Lecturer of Economics

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

Fields:  Public Policy, Education

Office:  Room 421 Cate Center 1

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

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:  TR 1:30-3:00, 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:  R 3:00-4:00

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:  T 1:00-3:00

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

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: TR 1:20-2:20 for Undergraduates, and R 9:30-10:30 for PhD students

Contact: mjyang@ou.edu

Personal:  Faculty Webpage        Curriculum Vitae