The Economics Department is happy to welcome two new assistant professors, Ayse Sapci and Rich Higgins, to the department.
- Prof Sapci is a macroeconomist with interests in financial and international macroeconomics. Her research has focused on the links between the financial sector and the real economy. Her teaching interests include macroeconomic theory, international macroeconomics, statistics, and financial and monetary economics. Prof Sapci was previously a visiting professor in the economics department for one year. She received her PhD in Economics from Vanderbilt University with her thesis: “Financial Intermediation Costs: Effects on Business Cycles, Delayed Recoveries and Relative Consumption Volatility.”
- Prof Higgins is a macroeconomist with interests in volatility and Bayesian econometrics. His research has focused on understanding time-varying macroeconomic volatility. His teaching interests include macroeconomic theory, monetary economics, money and banking, and econometrics. Prof Higgins was previously at the University of Oregon where he received a PhD in Economics. His dissertation is titled “Stochastic Volatility, Financial Frictions, and the Great Moderation.”