Department of Economics

ECU’s Michael Scott to receive Teaching Excellence Award

Dr. Michael Scott, professor of business administration in East Central University’s Harland C. Stonecipher School of Business, was selected for the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs Region 6. The ADA News

One size does not fit all: On the heterogeneous impact of free trade agreements – Scott Baier, Yoto Yotov, Thomas Zylkin

There is a large empirical literature examining the effects of free trade agreements. However, most studies to date have focused on a common average effect across all agreements or have assumed that the effects are common across similar types of agreements. This column examines heterogeneity in the effects of free trade agreements. Along with across-agreement […]

Washington serves as classroom for economics students

 What better way to grasp an understanding of economic policy than to rub shoulders with those who influence it at the highest levels of government. That was the mindset of the family of the late John Harris ’74 who created an endowment that allows for Clemson University senior economics majors to visit economic policymakers in […]

Herbert Hoover’s Radio Malware Turns 90 By Thomas W. Hazlett

On February 23, 1927, Babe Ruth had still to hit 60 home runs in a season. Yet President Calvin Coolidge would that day sign a bill that would establish how radio spectrum—the “economic oxygen” of the emerging information age—would still be governed 90 years later. Markets would be pre-empted, no ownership of the “ether” would […]