Department of Economics
Last Updated July 17, 2008

 

DOCTORAL PROGRAM

Virginia Tech's Ph.D. program in Economics is administered jointly by the Department of Economics and the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AAEC).

 

The Ph.D. Program Offers the Following Fields of Specialization:
Theory: Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
Econometrics
Markets and Industrial Organization
Resource and Environmental Economics
Public and Regional/Urban Economics
Development and International Economics

 

Areas of Faculty Research:
Microeconomic & Macroeconomic Theory
Econometrics (Applied & Theoretical)
Experimental Economics
Development Economics
Labor Economics
Family Economics
Public Finance
Industrial Organization

Please visit the Faculty page of this website and the AAEC Faculty page to further review the research interests of our graduate program faculty.

Director of Graduate Studies
*Questions regarding academic program
Dr. Richard Ashley
3027 Pamplin Hall
540-231-6220
Fax: (540) 231-5097
ashleyr@vt.edu

Graduate Program Administrator
*All other questions

Amy Stanford
3016 Pamplin Hall
540-231-9636
Fax: (540) 231-9288
econgrad@vt.edu