Lakshmi Iyer is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary research fields are development economics and political economy, with a special emphasis on property rights and the distribution of political power within societies. Her research has examined many dimensions of the distribution of political power within emerging market countries, including the legacy of colonial rule, the division of authority between politicians and bureaucrats, and the...

Eric Sims is a professor of economics at Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2009. He is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on business cycles and monetary and fiscal policies. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and several other scholarly journals. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and also serves...

Brian Levey joined the Mendoza faculty in 2007 after a twenty-year legal career, most recently focused on building corporate ethics and compliance programs. He currently teaches the introductory undergraduate business law course, as well as several ethics classes in the undergraduate, graduate and executive programs. Levey is a recipient of the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, as well as the Master of Science in Accountancy Dincolo Outstanding...

Emily N. Garbinsky is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. As a consumer psychologist, she studies how and when money can increase happiness - finding that money can positively impact happiness, consumption enjoyment, and relationship satisfaction depending on how it is managed, saved, and spent. Her empirical approach includes primary data collection, such as lab and field experiments, as well as secondary data analysis of bank...

Christopher C.W. Cronin is an applied microeconomist with research interests in health economics. His current projects focus on the impact of stay-at-home mandates during the covid-19 crisis, the relationship between health insurance and medical care demand, the determinants of health facility choice, and individuals' choices relating to obesity. He specializes in the estimation of dynamic microeconometric models. NBER Covid-19 Working Papers Chris' website Recent research on NPR Recent...

Colin Jones is an Associate Teaching Professor of Finance, specializing in applied investments. Prior to joining Mendoza, he was a Clinical Associate Professor of Finance at the University of South Carolina, where he served as director of the Carolina Finance Scholars Program, director of the Student Managed Investment Fund, and director of the Carolina Finance & Investment Association. He received the Alfred G. Smith Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2016, and was named the Michael...

Chloe Gibbs joined Notre Dame's economics department in 2015, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities. Professor Gibbs is interested in measuring the effects, both intended and unintended, of policies and programs targeted at disadvantaged children and families. Her recent research includes analyzing the impact of full-day kindergarten on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes using experimental and quasi-experimental methods, investigating the...