New Economics Faculty

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce the addition of new faculty to the department.

Galina Vereshchagina

Galina Vereshchagina received her Ph.D. in economics from CERGE-EI, Charles University in August 2003. She joined the department of economics at ASU in Fall 2007 from the University of Iowa, where she worked as Assistant Professor of Economics in 2003-2007. Galina's teaching and research interests are in the areas of macroeconomics and industrial organization.(more)

Yan Bai

Yan Bai joined the department of economics in Fall 2005 as an assistant professor of economics. Yan received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2005. (more)

Ying Chen

Ying Chen received her Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in May, 2005. She joined the department of economics as an assistant professor in fall, 2005. (more)

Elizabeth Bailey

Professor Elizabeth M. Bailey joined the faculty of the Department of Economics in August 2006. Before coming to ASU, Professor Bailey was a Vice President at NERA Economic Consulting where she provided economic advice on antitrust matters including mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures.  She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Mathematics from Colgate University and her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998.  (more)

Michael Keane

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Michael Keane has been named an ASU Research Fellow.  He previously visited ASU from 2003-2005 as the Goldwater Chair. Professor Keane is best known for co-developing a probability simulator, which for the first time made it practical to estimate discrete choice models that have more than just a few alternatives. Applications of this methodology are widespread. (more)

Kerry Smith (CV)

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Kerry Smith has been named the W. P. Carey Professor of Economics and will be joining the department in the Fall of 2006.