Department Archives: Department of Economics

Dr. Lealand Morin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. He completed a Ph.D. Economics from Queen’s University in Canada. His research interests are focused on empirical and theoretical techniques in econometrics. Dr. Morin brings a great deal of teaching experience aimed at challenging students for analytical work in business. […]

Dr. Michael Tseng is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. He completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Pennsylvania State University, and a second Ph.D. in Economics from Simon Fraser University in Canada. He also was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swiss Finance Institute, E´ cole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale de Lausanne, Switzerland. […]

Roberto Burguet joined UCF after spending most of his academic life in Barcelona. He also has been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, University of Arizona, University College Dublin, INSEAD and Colegio de Mexico, as well as Stony Brook University, his alma mater, where he graduated in 1988. His research interests include a […]

Curricular Plan of Study Economics BS *For information related to the Economics BSBA, please visit the UCF Catalog. Prior to orientation or 1st day of classes: Take Math Placement Test (MPT) and place into MAC 1105. Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior   Freshman Fall (15 hours) ENC 1101 Composition I MAC 1105C College Algebra ECO 2013 […]

Department of Economics Sami Alpanda is a macroeconomist with research interests in monetary and fiscal policy, macro-financial linkages, housing and international economics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2004. Prior to joining the UCF faculty in 2015, he worked in various research positions at the Bank of Canada.

Harry J. Paarsch was born in Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada, and grew up in British Columbia, first in the village of Clinton, in the Cariboo region, which is located in the southern interior of the province, and then in the village of Qualicum Beach, on Vancouver Island. After attending grade schools in Dog Creek, as […]

Department of Economics

My name is Tarek Buhagiar and I moved to Florida in 1990. I have been teaching at UCF since January 1998 and have loved every minute of it. UCF is a great institution that is constantly growing and changing. I have a Bachelor in Finance, a Master in Economics and a Graduate Certificate in Statistics/Data Mining. […]

Richard Hofler is Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. His major research fields are econometrics and health economics. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Hofler has served as […]