Faculty | Economics | SIU

Ph.D. 1991, Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 
Fields: Macroeconomics, Public Economics

Ph.D., University of Florida, 2003
Fields: Industrial Organization, Contract Theory, Law and Economics, and Applied Econometrics

Scott Gilbert received his Bachelors degree from the University of California Berkeley. He completed his coursework there to go to medical school, but found economics so interesting that he instead went to work as a research associate in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. After working there two years, he completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of California San Diego. After graduating in 1996, he worked as an assistant professor in economics at the University of Mississippi for three years, then joined SIU Carbondale in year 1999.

Ph.D., 2020, Economics, University of Virginia
Fields: International Economics, Development Economics

Sajal Lahiri, Ph.D. earned his doctorate from the Indian Statistical Institute (1977). He worked at the University of Essex in England (1978-2002) and joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University in 2002 as the Vandeveer endowed chair in Economics and is a distinguished scholar at SIU.

Ph.D., 2021, Economics, University of California - Riverside
Fields: Econometrics

Economics

Ph.D. 2001, University of Washington
Fields: Macroeconomic Theory, Economic Growth, International Economics

Ph.D. 1993, Economics, Duke University
Fields: Microeconomics, Game Theory, Law and Economics