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Areas of Concentration
 International Trade and Finance -
International trade, trade policy, and new trade theory; empirical applications.
Exchange rate determination, balance of payments, international monetary system;
real world applications.
Environmental and Resource Economics -
Mass balance, property rights, common property, public policy, externality theory,
non-market valuation, resource scarcity, renewable and nonrenewable resource management.
SAHRA - Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas is an NSF
funded research center based at The University of Arizona in Tuscon, AZ.
Many faculty in the Department of Economics work in collaboration with
these researchers to fulfill SAHRA's mission of promoting sustainable
management of water resources in semi-arid regions.
Latin American Economics -
Labor Economics - Determination of optimal wage and employment.
Demand and supply of labor, wage theory, education, migration, unions, labor market
discrimination and full employment policies.
Econometrics - Ordinary and generalized least squares,
hypothesis testing, dummy variable and distributed lag models; simultaneous equation and
two stage least square models; forecasting. Simultaneous
equation methods, nonlinear least squares, maximum likelihood method, qualitative
dependent variable models, asymptotic properties and test statistics.
Experimental Economics - Working markets in laboratory
setting. Designing market experiments. Experimental investigations of simple market
organization. Examination of more complex settings.
Public Finance - Welfare theory, market failure, externalities
and public goods, public choice, taxation and government expenditure.
Theory- Macroeconomics and Microeconomics theory with application.
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The University of New Mexico