Scholars in the Department of Economics are recognized internationally for their research across a wide spectrum of economic issues, many with important policy implications.
Santa Clara’s economists publish in leading scholarly journals in the field, and also advise government agencies, central banks, and non-governmental organizations on such practical concerns as monetary policy, bank regulation, and poverty alleviation. We employ a wide range of methodologies, including data development and data analysis, mathematical modeling, randomized experiments and field trials, and analytical narratives. Many faculty engage undergraduate students in various aspects of their research.
Forthcoming
Towards Smallholder Food and Water Security: Climate Variability in the Context of Multiple Livelihood Hazards in Nicaragua
Christopher Bacon, William A. Sundstrom, Iris T. Stewart, Edwin Maurer, Lisa C. Kelley
World Development
The Effect of Fee Shifting on Litigation: Evidence from a Policy Innovation in Intermediate Cost Shifting
Christian Helmers, Yassine Lefouili, Brian Love and Luke McDonagh
American Law and Economics Review
The Effects of an “Urban Village” Planning and Zoning Strategy in San Jose, California
Michael Kevane, C.J. Gabbe, and William A. Sundstrom
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Public Good Overprovision by a Manipulative Provider
Dongsoo Shin, Gorkem Celik and Roland Strausz
Rand Journal of Economics
Agricultural Returns to Labour and the Origins of Work ethics
Vasiliki Fouka and Alain Schläpfer
The Economic Journal
2020 Publications
Empathy, Gender, and Prosocial Behavior
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
A Tractable Framework for Analyzing a Class of Nonstationary Markov Models
Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar, John B. Taylor, Inna Tsener
Quantitative Economics 11 (4), pp 1289-1323, November 2020
To Work for Yourself, for Others, or Not At All? How Disability Benefits Affect the Employment Decisions of Older Veterans
Audrey Guo, Courtney Coile, and Mark Duggan
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Distorted Input Ratios in Vertical Relationships
Dongsoo Shin and Martin Peitz
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 122 (4), pp 1480-1509, October 2020
How mixed ownership affects decision making in turbulent times: Evidence from the digital revolution in telecommunications
Christian Helmers, David Wehrheim, Hakki Dogan Dalay, and Andrea Fosfuri
Journal of Corporate Finance 64, (Article 101626), October 2020
Technology Entry in the Presence of Patent Thickets
Christian Helmers, Bronwyn Hall and Georg von Graevenitz
Oxford Economic Papers
Economies and Development
Michael Kevane
in Peter J. Schraeder (ed.) Understanding Contemporary Africa (6th edition) Lynne Rienner Publishers 2020.
Obstructive Monitoring
Dongsoo Shin and Aaron Finkle
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 29 (4), pp 873-891, Winter 2020
Matlab, Python, Julia: What to Choose in Economics?
Chase Coleman, Spencer Lyon, Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar
Computational Economics
Regional and Income Disparities in Cost of Living Changes: Evidence from Egypt (This paper received "Best Paper Award, Microeconomics Theme, Economic Research Forum Annual Conference, July 2018".)
Shireen AlAzzawi
Middle East Development Journal DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2020.1770476
Does Empathy Pay? Evidence on Empathy and Salaries of Recent College Graduates
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Journal of Labor Research 41(1), 169-188
Uncertainty and Hyperinflation: European Inflation Dynamics after World War I
Kris Mitchener and Jose Lopez
The Economic Journal May 2020
Bearers of Bad News: Heterogeneous Effects of Alternative Front-of-Package Labeling Schemes for Nutritional Information
William A. Sundstrom, Shelby McIntyre, Gregory A. Baker, and Brian Avants
Journal of Agribusiness 38, (1 ) pp. 1-34, Spring 2020
Reading Fiction and Economic Preferences of Rural Youth in Burkina Faso
Michael Kevane
Economic Development and Cultural Change 68 (3), pp. 1041–1079, April 2020
The relative income effect: an experiment
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Dan Houser, and Lina Diaz
Experimental Economics 23, pp 1205–1234, March 2020
Behavioral Economic Phenomena in Decision-Making for Others
John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee
The Journal of Economic Psychology 77, Article 102180, March 2020
Intellectual Property Use and Firm Performance: the Case of Chile
Christian Helmers, Carsten Fink, and Bronwyn Hall
Economic Development and Cultural Change January 2020
2019 Publications
Experiencing Poverty in an Online Simulation: Effects on Players’ Beliefs, Attitudes and Behaviors about Poverty
Christine Bachen, Pedro Hernández-Ramos, Chad Raphael, John Ifcher, and Michael Broghammer
Cyberpsychology 13(3), Article 1, 2019
The Expectational Effects of News in Business Cycles: Evidence from Forecast Data
Wataru Miyamoto and Thuy Lan Nguyen
Journal of Monetary Economics
What to expect when you are expecting: Are health care consumers forward-looking?
Audrey Guo and Jonathan Zhang
Journal of Health Economics
Asset Inequality in MENA: The Missing Dimension?
Shireen AlAzzawi and Vladimir Hlasny
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 73, pp 44-55, August 2019
Household asset wealth and female labor supply in MENA
Shireen AlAzzawi and Vladimir Hlasny
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 73, pp. 3-13, August 2019
Asset inequality in the MENA: The missing dimension?
Vladimir Hlasny and Shireen AlAzzawi
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 73, pp. 44-55, August 2019
Tariffs, product quality, and the relative prices of durables: Evidence from 1989 to 2009 U.S. microdata
Adina Ardelean and Volodymyr Lugovskyyb
European Economic Review
Attention and Saliency on the Internet: Evidence from an Online Recommendation System
Christian Helmers, Pramila Krishnan and Manasa Patnam
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 161, pp 216-242, May 2019
Managing R&D in Vertical Relationships
Dongsoo Shin and Chifeng Dai
Economic Inquiry 57 (3) pp. 1510-1525
Network Contagion and Interbank Amplification during the Great Depression
Kris J. Mitcherner and Gary Richardson
Journal of Political Economy 127 (2), April 2019, pp. 465–507
Income Inequality and Well-Being in the U.S.: Evidence of Geographic-Scale-and Measure-Dependence
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, and Carol Graham
The Journal of Economic Inequality 17, pp 415–434, Sept. 2019
Choose the Neighbor before the House: Agglomeration Externalities in a UK Science Park
Christian Helmers
Journal of Economic Geography 19 (1), pp 31–55, January 2019
Can Empathy Explain Gender Differences in Economic Policy Views in the United States?
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Feminist Economics 25 (1) pp. 58-89, 2019
2018 Publications
Historical Measures of Economic Output
Alexander J. Field
Historical Measures of Economic Output. In: Diebolt C., Haupert M. (eds) Handbook of Cliometrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp 1-23
Competing with Confidence: The Ticket to Labor Market Success for College-Educated Women
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 155, pp. 231-252, November 2018
Do Endowments Matter? Exploring the Gender Dimensions of Poverty in Egypt
Shireen AlAzzawi
Review of Income and Wealth 64 (S1) , S189-S224, Oct 1, 2018
Return Migration and Social Mobility in MENA: Evidence from Labor Market Panel Surveys
Shireen AlAzzawi and Vladimir Hlasny
Topics in Middle Eastern and African Economies 20(2), pp.29- 64, September 2018
The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee
The Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 75, pp 55-65, August 2018
Government Spending Multipliers under Zero Lower Bound: Evidence from Japan
Lan Nguyen, Wataru. Miyamoto, and Dmitriy Sergeyev
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 10(3), pp 247-77, July 2018
Manufacturing Productivity and US Economic Growth
Alexander J. Field
Louis P. Cain, Price Fishback, and Paul Rhode, eds., Oxford Handbook of American Economic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 213-34.
Trademark Squatters: Theory and Evidence from Chile
Christian Helmers, Carsten Fink and Carlos Ponce
International Journal of Industrial Organization 59, pp 340-371, July 2018
Local Neighbors as Positives, Regional Neighbors as Negatives: Competing Channels in the Relationship between Others' Income, Health, and Happiness
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, and Carol Graham
The Journal of Health Economic 49 (3), pp 272–302, April 2018
The Great Recession and Life Satisfaction: The Unique Decline for Americans Approaching Retirement Age
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Amanda Cabacungan
In “Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development” (Dr Ajit Mishra and Dr Tridip Ray, eds.), Oxford University Press.
Litigation of Standard-Essential Patents in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
Jorge Contreras, Fabian Gaessler, Christian Helmers, and Brian Love
Berkeley Technology Law Journal 32 (4), May 2018