David C. Rose, Ph.D.

Professor; Department Chair
Department of Economics

Professor Rose received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Virginia. He is currently chair of the department and previously served as the department’s director of graduate studies for four years. He regularly teaches principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics, intermediate microeconomic theory, graduate microeconomic theory, mathematical economics, and a course in the theory of the firm. His areas of research interest are behavioral economics, organization theory, and the role that moral beliefs play in supporting the development and operation of fee market economies. He is writing a book on the topic titled The Moral Foundation of Economics Behavior. His latest paper, “Competition, Cooperation, and the Neighboring Farmer Effect” (forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization) explains how cooperation can emerge spontaneously to promote technology adoption even among rival firms in a highly competitive market. He has another paper, “The Dynamics of Small Industries: Market Size and Knowledge Spillovers,” (with Serguey Braguinsky, Salavat Gabdrakhmanov, and Atsuhsi Ohyama under review at the Journal of Development Economics) that explores the developmental implications of the trade-off between strong incentives and a high rate of technological diffusion. He frequently contributes to policy debates involving monetary policy and finance and health care reform in radio and television interviews as well as Op-Eds in papers like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Word on Business, The School Advocate, Forbes, and The Christian Science Monitor.