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Robert Jones

faculty

Robert Jones '96 he/him

Associate Professor

Economics

Contact

508-910-9527

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Spruce Hall 0167

Education

2001Clark UniversityPhD
1999Clark UniversityMA
1996University of Massachusetts DartmouthBA

Teaching

  • Public Economics
  • Econometrics
  • Health Economics
  • Statistics
  • Principles of Economics

Teaching

Courses

Survey of introductory macroeconomics with focus on economic growth, unemployment, and inflation. Topics covered include national income accounting, inflation, unemployment, fiscal policy, money, the banking system, and monetary policy. Balance of payments and currency exchange rate issues are analyzed.

Survey of introductory macroeconomics with focus on economic growth, unemployment, and inflation. Topics covered include national income accounting, inflation, unemployment, fiscal policy, money, the banking system, and monetary policy. Balance of payments and currency exchange rate issues are analyzed.

Survey of introductory macroeconomics with focus on economic growth, unemployment, and inflation. Topics covered include national income accounting, inflation, unemployment, fiscal policy, money, the banking system, and monetary policy. Balance of payments and currency exchange rate issues are analyzed.

Contemporary intermediate treatment of microeconomic theory, applications, and price policy. Covers the theory of price determination, resource allocation, income distribution, and welfare economics. Perfectly competitive markets and models of imperfect competition are covered. Theory is integrated with public policy questions.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Survey of introductory macroeconomics with focus on economic growth, unemployment, and inflation. Topics covered include national income accounting, inflation, unemployment, fiscal policy, money, the banking system, and monetary policy. Balance of payments and currency exchange rate issues are analyzed.
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Research

Research awards

  • $ 5,500 awarded by Fall River Public Schools for Early College Programs

Research

Research interests

  • Health Economics
  • Pollution and Productivity
  • Public Economics

Select publications

  • Daniel Georgianna and Robert T. Jones (2007).
    Privatizing the Benefits from Higher Education and Its Effects on Access
    American Academic , 3
  • Constantine Alexandrakis and Robert T. Jones (2006).
    Secession and Exit: An Analysis of Two Competing Hypotheses
    The Elgar Companion to Public Economics: Empirical Public Economics
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