Economics

Degrees Offered:

MS Economics
- Agricultural Business emphasis
- Agricultural Economics emphasis
- Business Economics emphasis
- General Economics emphasis

Department Head: Professor Evert Van der Sluis
Graduate Coordinators: Professors Joseph Santos and Jason Zimmerman

For additional information contact:
Mailing address: SDSU Box 504 Phone: 605/688-4141
Scobey Hall — SSB 138 Fax: 605/688-6386
http://econ.sdstate.edu/Academic/grad.htm
E-mail: joseph.santos@sdstate.edu; jason.zimmerman@sdstate.edu

Graduate Faculty

Dwight Adamson, Associate Professor, PhD, Washington State University, 1988 Macroeconomics; Statistics

Martin K. Beutler, Professor, PhD, Purdue University, 1986 Agricultural Impacts and Coordinated Resource Management

Kuo-Liang Chang, Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Utah, 2007 Consumer Economics, Natural Resources Economics, and Labor Economics

Carol Cumber, Professor, PhD, South Dakota State University, 1994 Management; Business Policy

David E. Davis, Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Oregon, 1998 Industrial Organization; Labor Economics; Econometrics

Matthew A. Diersen, Associate Professor, PhD, University of Illinois, 1999 Risk and Business Management

Scott Fausti, Professor, PhD, University of Illinois, 1991 Macroeconomics; Mathematical Economics

Larry Janssen, Professor, PhD, University of Nebraska- Lincoln, 1978 Agricultural Finance; Agricultural Policy

Nicole Klein, Professor, PhD, Kansas State University, 1996 Management; Marketing

George Langelett, Associate Professor, PhD, University of Nebraska, 2000 Economic Theory; Marketing

Jing Li, Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Alabama, 2006 Econometrics, Statistics

Michael Miller, Assistant Professor, PhD, Colorado State University, 2009 Environmental and Natural Resources, Urban and Regional Economics, and Agricultural Production Economics

Burton Pflueger, Professor, PhD, University of Illinois,1985 Farm Business Management

Bashir Qasmi, Associate Professor, PhD, Iowa State University, 1986 Agricultural Marketing

Joseph M. Santos, Professor, PhD, Rutgers University, 1996 Macroeconomics; Monetary and Financial Theory; Applied Time-Series Econometrics

John Sondey, Professor, PhD, Washington State University, 1989 Public Finance; Labor Economics

Gary Taylor, Associate Professor, PhD, Oklahoma State University, 1995 Agricultural Economics and Business; Agricultural Policy

Evert Van der Sluis, Professor, PhD, University of Minnesota,1993 International Economics; Agricultural Economics

Zhiguang Wang, Assistant Professor, PhD, Florida International University, 2009 Financial Economics: Asset Pricing, Derivatives, Volatility

Gerald Warmann, Professor, PhD, Oklahoma State University, 1984 Farm and Ranch Management, Production Economics, Financial Management and Farm Appraisal

Jason Zimmerman, Associate Professor, PhD, Purdue University, 1998 Microeconomic Theory