Economics

Ted Amato teaches in the undergraduate, MBA and Master of Science in Economics programs. Dr. Amato’s teaching interests are in the areas of microeconomic theory, industrial organization and public policy, managerial economics, and econometrics. His research specialties focus on the structure-performance relationship in industrial economics and the determinants of productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Dr. […]

Amanda is a Director of Claims Administration and Reporting at SCOR Global Life Americas. She has spent over 6 years with SCOR in various departments. Prior to her current role, she was Director of Business Implementation and assisted with the client-facing implementations of SCOR’s automated underwriting engine. Before that role, Amanda served as the Leadership […]

John Connaughton joined the UNC Charlotte faculty in 1978. He is the director of the UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast, which is recognized as the leading source of economic information for North Carolina. Dr. Connaughton has authored economic impact studies that have received widespread attention. His work is frequently quoted in both local and national publications, […]

Dr. Craig A. Depken, II joined the Belk College of Business in August 2007. Previous to coming to UNC Charlotte, he was an associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Depken has taught a wide variety of applied economics courses, including econometrics, international economics and industrial organization. He has a […]

Paul Gaggl joined the Belk College of Business after earning his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis in 2012. His current research concentrates on the distributional effects of technology adoption, particularly concerning the heterogeneous effects on different types of workers and the distribution of income between labor and capital. This includes work on […]

Igor Kheifets is a Ph.D. Economist with a specialization in Econometrics. He has published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Econometrics, Econometrics Journal, and Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. He is a recipient of the Denis Sargan Econometrics Prize by the Royal Economic Society for his research on testing dynamic models. Dr. Kheifets […]

Chris Kirby is a Professor of Finance and Economics. He joined the faculty of the Belk College of Business in 2011. Before coming to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he held tenured appointments in economics at Clemson University and in finance at the University of Texas at Dallas. Professor Kirby’s research interests include […]