Drs. Mihai Nica, Susanne Currier, Zhen Zhu, Mickey Hepner and Mohamad Shaaf along with Research Assistants and MBA students Dasha Titkina, Oleg Petrenko presented 8 posters on topics ranging from energy risk management to competition in academics at 2008 Oklahoma Research Day. Dr. Joseph Johnson spoke before the Economics Club on the subject, “What Makes Hiring Sensitive to Wage Hikes?”  He used labor demand as an illustration of how economists express economic relationships with math in order to break complexity into components that can be examined individually and measured with real-world data. Dr. Mihai Nica presented his paper entitled "Small Business Clusters Formation: MAR or Jacobs Effects?" at the 55th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. He also served as discussant.

Why Study Economics at UCO?

Get Smart: A UCO Economics education teaches you how the real world works: consumers, firms, markets, corporations, legislatures, even families. Here you learn to analyze the facts in terms of tradeoffs and incentives.

Get a Career: Face it. You need an edge to catch the eye of prospective employers. And since success depends upon a business’ ability to adapt to a global economy, a solid understanding of economics can give you that edge. The UCO Economics Department can arm you with the knowledge you need to get a job, or to pursue graduate economics or law degrees.

Get Personal Attention: It’s the best way to learn. And with small classes, it’s how we teach. Here, you’ll get individual attention from experienced mentors. Each of our ten full-time professors holds a doctorate. As a group, they offer a truly broad range of experience in business, consulting, and government. This, combined with extensive practical research, provides our faculty the expertise and understanding needed to offer support and direction to our students. You can get even more personal attention by enrolling in an independent study course and work on exciting research projects.

Get a Degree: We have four different degree options to help us meet your needs. Whether you want to prepare for life in business, government, or grad school we have the degree for you.

Come see what UCO Economics has to offer!

Contact Info:

Department of Economics
University of Central Oklahoma
100 N University Drive
Edmond, OK 73034-5209
Phone:  (405) 974-5843
Fax:      (405) 974-3853
e-mail: econ@uco.edu

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