This last degree is primarily for students who wish to pursue careers that utilize economics, but prefer a social science orientation rather than a business degree. In addition, the Division offers those students pursuing the Master of Business Administration Degree the opportunity to concentrate their studies in either Business Economics or Finance. The faculty of the Division of Economics and Finance have received their graduate degrees from such prestigious universities as the University of Arizona, University of California at Berkeley, the University of Georgia, Harvard Law School, the University of Illinois, Indiana University, Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, University of Oklahoma, Rice University, The University of Texas at Austin, Tulane University, and the University of Wyoming. Our faculty care a great deal about their teaching performance, and several of them have won numerous teaching awards from The University. The faculty have written articles published in such highly regarded journals as Advances in Futures and Options Research , Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management , the American Economic Review , The Antitrust Bulletin , Applied Economics , Applied Mathematical Modelling , Atlantic Economic Journal , Canadian Journal of Economics , Contemporary Economic Policy , Economic Geography , Economic Inquiry , The Economic Journal , Explorations in Economic History , Financial Management , Financial Review , Gonzaga Law Review , Growth and Change , International Review of Economics and Finance , the Journal of Banking and Finance , Journal of Business , Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives , Journal of Derivatives , Journal of Development Economics , Journal of Development Studies , Journal of Economic Integration , Journal of Economic Studies , Journal of Economics and Business , the Journal of Finance , Journal of Financial Research , The Journal of Financial and Strategic Decisions , Journal of Fixed Income , Journal of Futures Markets , Journal of Macroeconomics , Journal of Monetary Economics , Journal of Multinational Financial Management , Journal of Policy Modelling , Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics , Journal of Productivity Analysis , Journal of Quantitative Economics , Journal of Real Estate Research , Journal of Regional Science , Journal of Regulatory Economics , Kyklos , Linear Algebra and Its Applications , Public Choice , Public Finance Quarterly ,the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance , Real Estate Economics , Research in Law and Economics , the Southern Economic Journal , and World Development .
Several faculty are also the authors of books.
Ronald Ayers and Robert Collinge have completed the second edition of Economics by Design , a one-semester introductory economics text. Since 1913 . Dale and Lila Truett are working on the seventh edition of Managerial Economics . The Division faculty are also involved with other educational activities in addition to teaching classes that directly support the degree programs of the Division, College of Business, and The University. For example, Drs.