Department Archives: Department of Economics

My Teaching Philosophy I take teaching very seriously and for the most part, view teaching as important as research. I have high expectations of the students, which is generally something they haven’t encountered in their prior education.  I eschew grading on a curve, for I find a curve unpalatable inasmuch as any true curve, e.g., a […]

Department of Economics

Dr. Nora Underwood received her BA from George Washington University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. She was employed as a lecturer in the economics department at UC Davis for nine years before joining the Department of Economics at UCF in 2003. She most often teaches principles of macroeconomics, environmental economics, and […]

Eric Schmidbauer is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. He completed his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2014 and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. His research interests include the economics of information, industrial organization and marketing. He principally teaches courses in microeconomics and game theory at […]

Dr. Melanie Guldi is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida in the College of Business. She is a native Floridian who received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a focus on Economics from the University of Florida in 1995. She then earned a Master of Arts in Economics from Michigan […]

Uluc Aysun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at UCF. His fields of research are: International Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics.

  Mark Dickie is a Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. His major fields are environmental economics and health economics. His research focuses on estimating economic benefits of reducing risks to human health; understanding how people perceive health risks; and examining the determinants and effects of behaviors that influence the […]