Economics Department
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Henry W. Chappell
Professor Economics Department Contact Information Phone: (803) 777-4940 Fax: (803) 777-6876 chappell@moore.sc.edu Dr. Chappell's Home page |
Biography
Henry W. Chappell, Jr. earned his B.A. in economics from Hampden-Sydney College in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979. Following one year as an assistant professor at the University of Alabama, he joined the Department of Economics at USC Moore School of Business in 1980. He has been Professor of Economics since 1991, and was named a Business Partnership Foundation Fellow in 1998. His research interests include public choice economics and the politics of macroeconomic policymaking. He has published in journals in both economics and political science, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Political Science Review, and the Journal of Politics. While at USC he has been the recipient of four grants from the National Science Foundation. These grants funded research on political aspects of macroeconomic policymaking. His current research involves the analysis of voting on monetary policy issues within the Federal Open Market Committee at the Federal Reserve. Professor Chappell has taught industrial organization, microeconomics, and macroeconomics at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and has also taught in the MIBS, IMBA, MBA and PMBA programs. In 1999 he was an inaugural recipient of the Master Teacher Award for the Moore School of Business and was named Outstanding Teacher in a required PMBA course for 1999-2000 and for 2000-2001. Education
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