Faculty

Dr. Chakraborty received her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of specialization include: applied macroeconomics, international macroeconomics, international finance, and development economics. Dr. Chakraborty has published research articles in the Journal of International Business Studies, Economics Letters, and the Journal of World Economic Review. 

Professor Katz is Ph.D from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research areas of specialization are development economics, women in development, agricultural economics, and history of economic thought. Dr. Katz's recent research has focused on the relationship between gender, intra-household bargaining and development in Latin America.

Professor Sunny Wong received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Oregon (1996-2002). Professor Wong joined the Department of Economics at USF in 2006.  Prior to his current position at USF, he was an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi (2002-2006).  He is also an honorary instructor at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection at the University of Essex in England and currently serving as a research associate in the Center for Public Policy at the University of Houston.
His teaching and research interests include monetary policy, learning dynamics, business-cycle theory, and foreign direct investment.  Professor Wong has published research articles in academic journals including Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, Macroeconomic Dynamics, American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, World Development, and other journals. He published a book, The Role of Policymakers in Business Cycle Fluctuations (Cambridge University Press) in April 2006.
He is currently working on another book, The Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models: Unifying Formal and Empirical Analysis in the Political, Social, and Economic Science (Cambridge University Press).

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Areas of specialization: Use of econometric, experimental, and game-theoretic tools to analyze the impact of development projects and policies, especially in the areas of microfinance, education, and health.  Much of his recent work examines the workings and impact of microfinance, child sponsorship, and animal donation programs. He has published articles recently in journals such as The Economic Journal, Economica, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Development Economics, and his book Games In Economic Development was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.  He is currently writing a book about fair-trade coffee.