Economics

Graduate Certificate Student Handbook

There are two graduate certificates offered by the Economics Department: 

  • Environmental and Resource Economics Graduate Certificate
  • Sustainability Graduate Certificate

Graduate Certificates

Faculty Areas of Specialization

Tenure and Tenure Track

Specialization

Grace Arnold, Assistant Professor
503-725-3931
garnold@pdx.edu		Labor and Health Economics
Neal Becker, Teaching Professor
503-725-6847
nealb@pdx.edu		Sports economics and microeconomics
Randall Bluffstone, Professor and Program Director, Graduate Certificate in Environmental and Resource Economics
503-725-3938
bluffsto@pdx.edu		Environmental and resource economics, including climate change, energy, pollution control and deforestation in low-income countries
Sahan Dissanayake, Assistant Professor and Program Director, Graduate Certificate in Sustainability
503-725-9315
sahan@pdx.edu		Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Mathematical Programming, Ecosystem Services, Non-Market Valuation
John Gallup, Associate Professor
503-725-3929
jlgallup@pdx.edu		Economic Development, Health Economics, Distribution and Inequality, Geography
John Hall, Professor
503-725-3939
hallj@pdx.edu		Comparative Economic Systems, Evolutionary-Institutional Economics, Economics of Innovation, Frontier Economy of Amazon River Valley
Hiro Ito, Professor
503-725-3930
ito@pdx.edu		Monetary economics, International finance, Economic development, Asian economics
Riju Joshi, Assistant Professor and Program Director, Graduate Certificate in Econometrics and Data Analysis
503-725-3934
riju@pdx.edu		Applied Econometric Methodology 
Arnab Mitra, Associate Professor and Graduate Committee Chair
503-725-3937
arnab@pdx.edu		Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics, and Microeconomics
Cesar M. Rodriguez, Associate Professor
503-725-3943
cesar.rodriguez@pdx.edu    		International Macroeconomics, Growth and Development Economics, Latin American Economies
Rajiv Sharma, Professor
503-725-3925
sharmar@pdx.edu    		Access and disparities in health care; consumer preferences and behavior; cost-effectiveness analysis
Sarah Tinkler, Professor and Undergraduate Committee Chair
503-725-3933
tinkler@pdx.edu    		Economics education, computational linguistics, health economics
J. Forrest Williams, Assistant Professor and Department Chair
503-725-3908
forrest.williams@pdx.edu		Behavioral Economics, Charitable Giving, Experimental Economics
Jamie Woods, Assistant Professor
503-465-4883
woodsj@pdx.edu		Energy Economics