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Panle Barwick

Position title: Professor, Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair

Email: pbarwick@wisc.edu

Phone: (608)264-2973

Address:
7422 Social Sciences Building

Panle Jia Barwick is the Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of expertise include industrial organization, Chinese economy, environmental and…

Yongheng Deng

Position title: Professor, John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business

Email: yongheng.deng@wisc.edu

Phone: (608)262-4865

Address:
4110 Grainger Hall

Yongheng Deng is a Professor and the John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business, Chair of the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, and Director of the Global Real Estate Masters Program (GREM),…

Guanming Shi

Position title: Professor, Renk Agribusiness Chair

Email: gshi@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-8966

Address:
433 Taylor Hall

Guanming Shi is a professor, the Renk Agribusiness Chair, and the Department Chair of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is a core faculty member of the Initiative for…

Faculty affiliates - UW-Madison

Hengjie Ai

Position title: Robert M. Steiner Chair Professor in Business, Department Chair in Finance

Email: hengjie.ai@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-890-3881

Address:
5281 Grainger Hall

Hengjie Ai joins the Wisconsin School of Business in January 2022 as a professor in the Department of Finance. Professor Ai’s research interests include topics in asset pricing, corporate finance, and macroeconomic theory. His research…

Menzie Chinn

Position title: Professor of Public Affairs and Economics

Email: mchinn@lafollette.wisc.edu

Phone: (608)262-7397

Address:
7470 Social Science Building

Menzie D. Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. He is a co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance.…

Ian Coxhead

Position title: Emeritus Professor, Honorary Professor in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics(Australian National University)

Email: ian.coxhead@wisc.edu

Ian Coxhead is a development economist. His research focuses on problems of globalization, growth, and development, mainly in East and Southeast Asia. He is employed at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) in Tokyo, Japan…

Sheldon (Xiaodong) Du

Position title: Professor

Email: xdu23@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-0699

Address:
331 Taylor Hall

Xiaodong (Sheldon) Du is a professor in the Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in agricultural and energy economics. His research focuses on understanding production agriculture and its adaptation…

Chao Fu

Position title: Professor, Mary Claire Aschenbrener Phipps Distinguished Chair

Email: cfu@ssc.wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-3886

Address:
7464 Social Science Building

Chao Fu is the Mary Claire Aschenbrener Phipps Distinguished Chair in Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her broad research area is empirical microeconomics that combines economic theories and econometrics tools to study policy relevant…

Corbett Grainger

Position title: Professor

Email: corbett.grainger@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-3651

Address:
412 Taylor Hall

His research focuses on understanding the distributional effects of regulations, property rights and institutions as well as the political economy of environmental and natural resource policy. Applications include ambient air pollution, climate change and rights-based…

Lu Han

Position title: Professor, Nathan F. Brand Chair in Real Estate

Email: lu.han@wisc.edu

Address:
5257 Grainger Hall

Lu Han is the Nathan F. Brand Chair Professor in Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison, Han was a Professor and the Premier’s…

Allen Li

Position title: Michael and Mary Sue Shannon Professor

Email: allen.li@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-4414

Address:
4285 Grainger Hall

Allen Li is the Michael and Mary Sue Shannon Professor and Associate Professor in the department of Operations and Information Management. His research focuses on digital platforms, digital transformation, and the regulation of the digital…

Priya Mukherjee

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: priya.mukherjee@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-8695

Address:
417 Taylor Hall

Priya Mukherjee is a development economist. Her research focuses on governance and institutions, as well as education and health policy, mainly in South and Southeast Asia. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Agricultural…

Dominic Parker

Position title: Anderson-Bascom Professor

Email: dominic.parker@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-8916

Address:
413 Taylor Hall

Dominic is the Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on environmental economics, economic development, and law and economics. His work aims to understand the intended and unintended effects…

Daniel Phaneuf

Position title: Henry C. Taylor Professor

Email: dphaneuf@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-4908

Address:
405 Taylor Hall

Daniel is an environmental and resource economist whose research focuses on the United States. He is particularly interested in understanding the value of the environment, measured through decisions that involve interactions with the environment, such…

Laura Schechter

Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Email: lschechter@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-9482

Address:
334 Taylor Hall

Laura Schechter is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an international development economist whose research lies at the intersection of development economics and behavioral…

Chris Timmins

Position title: Gary J. Gorman Affordable Housing Professor

Email: ctimmins@wisc.edu

Address:
Grainger Hall

Christopher Timmins is the Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor in the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department at the Wisconsin School of Business. Professor Timmins specializes in urban and environmental economics, but he…

Dayin Zhang

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: dayin.zhang@wisc.edu

Address:
5261 Grainger Hall

Dayin Zhang joined the Wisconsin School of Business in August 2020 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics. His research interests include financial intermediation, real estate finance, and…

Faculty affiliates - External

Alberto E Brugarolas Salvo

Position title: Associate Professor (National University of Singapore), Dean’s Chair

Email: albertosalvo@nus.edu.sg

Environmental economist Alberto Salvo is an associate professor, Dean’s Chair, and Deputy Head for Research at the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore (NUS). He holds several appointments across NUS including serving on the…

Shanjun Li

Position title: Kenneth L. Robinson Professor (Cornell University)

Email: sl2448@cornell.edu

Phone: (607)255-1832

Shanjun Li is a Professor of Applied Economics and Policy, and he holds the Kenneth L. Robinson Chair in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. His research areas include environmental…

Paolo Martellini

Position title: Assistant Professor (NYU)

Email: pm1987@stern.nyu.edu

Address:
44 West Fourth Street, 7-86
New York, NY 10012

Paolo Martellini joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Economics in August 2024. He conducts research in macroeconomics, labor economics, and urban economics. Before joining NYU Stern, he was…

Nancy Qian

Position title: James J. O'Connor Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences Co-Director, Global Poverty Research Lab (GPRL)

Email: nancy.qian@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Phone: (847)491-2531

Address:
Global Hub 4135

Nancy Qian is the James J. O’Connor Professor of Economics at Kellogg and a professor of the Department of Economics by courtesy appointment. She co-directs the Global Poverty Research lab, and founded China Econ Lab,…

Shaoda Wang

Credentials: University of Chicago

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: shaoda@uchicago.edu

Shaoda Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also serves as the Deputy…

Yang Yao

Credentials: Peking University

Position title: Professor, Director of China Center for Economic Research, Executive Director of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development

Email: yyao@nsd.pku.edu.cn

Professor Yao Yang holds the position of Chair Professor of Economics at Peking University. He is also the Executive Director of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development (ISSCAD), and Director of the China Center…

Yong Zhao

Position title: CEO of Nice Day Chinese and Junzi Kitchen, co-president of China Institute Next Gen with Serica (CINGS) and president of Asian American Hospitality Alliance (AAHA)

Email: y@junzi.us

While pursuing his Ph.D. in Environmental Science at Yale, Yong co-founded Junzi Kitchen in 2015, an award-winning Chinese fast-casual concept in New Haven and New York. During Covid pandemic, Yong also co-founded Nice Day Chinese,…