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Mark Thoma, Mentor
Economics

Jessica Brown, McNair Scholar

Mark Thoma, Associate Professor of Economics, received his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1985 and joined the UO faculty in 1987. He teaches courses in macroeconomic theory, history of economic thought, and econometrics while maintaining research interests in the effects on the economy of changes in money supply. Thoma's scholarly publications include "Electrical Energy Usage over the Business Cycle," Energy Economics, (2004); "Financial Market Variables Do Not Predict Real Activity," Economic Inquiry, (1998, with Jo Anna Gray); "Subsample Instability in Money-Income Causality," Journal of Econometrics, (1994); "Leading Transportation Indicators: Forecasting Waterborne Commerce Statistics Using Lock Performance Data," Journal of the Transportation Forum, (forthcoming with W. Wilson).