Homer Balabanis
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Homer Balabanis
Professor
Jean Thomson
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Jean Thomson
Administrative Support Coordinator
Beth Wilson
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Contact
bwilson@humboldt.edu- Siemens Hall 206D
Office Hours
M/W 12:30-1:30 PM or
Email for an appointment
Beth Wilson
Professor
Areas of Interest
Professor Wilson teaches development economics, intermediate microeconomics, international economics, and principles of economics. She also developed and regularly teaches our only service learning course, sustainable rural economic development. Beth is a faculty advisor for the international studies major and occasionally teaches one of their core courses on international political economy.
Professor Wilson has published articles in the Review of Economics and Statistics and a number of journals associated with the American Real Estate Society. She has provided economic impact analyses for local non-profit organizations and contributed to an edited volume on Service Learning. Her most recent research interests focus on the scholarship of teaching and sustainable rural economic development.
Beth Wilson and Sarah Rossig
2013
Does Supplemental Instruction for Principles of Economics Help Close the Gap for Traditionally Underrepresented Minorities?
Working Paper
Beth Wilson
Nov 2011
Teaching Sustainable Rural Economic Development Using Service-Learning Pedagogy
T. McDonald & G. Eisman (Eds), Social Responsibility and Sustainability: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service Learning, ch 11. Virginia: Stylus Publishing
Beth Wilson and Jim Frew
2007
Apartment Rents and Locations in Portland Oregon A Comparison: 1992-2002
Journal of Real Estate Research, 29:2
Beth Wilson
2006
The Economic Impact Report of Loans Made by Arcata Economic Development Corporation (AEDC)
Beth Wilson
2006
The Economic Impact Report of the Ingomar Theater Renovation
Beth Wilson and Jim Frew
2002
Estimating the Connections Between Location and Property Value
Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education, 5(1)
Beth Wilson and Jim Frew
2000
Transportation Routes, Apartment Rents and the Assessment of Value
Essays in Honor of James A Graaskamp: Ten Years After, Research Issues in Real Estate, Vol. 5, sponsored by the American REal Estate Society, Norwell: Kluwer Academic Publisher
Beth Wilson, Joe Stone, and James Ziliak
1999
Spatial Dynamics and Heterogeneity in the Cyclicality of Real Wages
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 81(2), pp.227-236
Beth Wilson
February 2008
Economic Impact and Input-Output Analysis
Presented at the Mathematics Colloquium, Cal Poly Humboldt
Nicola Matthews
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Contact
nicola.matthews@humboldt.edu- Siemens Hall 206E
Office Hours
M/W 8:00-9:00 or
Email for an Appointment
Nicola R. Matthews
Lecturer
Kristen Luke
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Contact
kml855@humboldt.edu- Siemens Hall 206E
Office Hours
Online by appointment only. Email to set up an appointment.
Will Fisher
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Contact
william.fisher@humboldt.edu- Siemens Hall 206C
Office Hours
Face to Face Wednesday 12:30-1:30 and Zoom Monday 2:00-3:00 PM
Email me to let me know you are coming
Erick Eschker
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Contact
Erick@humboldt.edu- Siemens Hall 206B
Office Hours
M/W 11:30-12:30 pm or Email for an appointment.
Erick Eschker
Professor & Department Chair
Areas of Interest
Professor Eschker's research interests include regional economic analysis, cannabis policy, real estate and housing, health care, entrepreneurship, and generational accounting. He has worked with undergraduate economics majors on a variety of published research projects. He has also studied worker productivity in the National Basketball Association and in local gasoline and housing markets.
In fall, 2023, Professor Eschker joined the Million Dollar Club, which recognizes Cal Poly Humboldt primary investigators who have secured over $1 million in external funding. In spring 2004, Professor Eschker was awarded a President McCrone Promising Faculty Scholars Award, and he spent his sabbatical at the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago. From 2005-2006, he was a research economist at the American Medical Association. In 2011-12 he was a visiting professor at Sacramento State University. Professor Eschker has published in journals including Applied Economics and Public Budgeting and Finance. He wrote the study guide for "The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets" by Frederic Mishkin, and he has given papers at The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Western Economic Association Annual Meetings and the Social Science History Association Meetings.
- B.A. University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1989
- M.A. and Ph.D, University of California at Davis, 1992 and 1997
Student research assistants are part of much of Professor Eschker's research.
Here are some examples of his research:
Erick Eschker, CO-PI with Gregg Gold and Joshua Zender, 2023-25. Hemp Entrepreneurs, grant with the Agricultural Research Institute, California State University.
Erick Eschker, CO-PI with Gregg Gold and Joshua Zender
2021-23
Cannabis Entrepreneurs and Jobs, grant with the California Bureau of Cannabis Control.
Erick Eschker with J. Zender, A. Frankovsky and G. Gold.
2023
Perspectives from Cannabis Industry Insiders The National Social Science Journal, 2023, vol. 59, issue 2, pp. 62-73.
Erick Eschker with E. Porse et al.
2023
Adapting Wastewater Management Systems in California for Water Conservation and Climate Change. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2023.2180251.
Erick Eschker, with Jonathan Kaplan
2023
Urban Water Retailers and Conservation, Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessment, contract with the California Water Resources Control Board.
Erick Eschker with William Fisher and Liam O'Brian (student)
2020
COVID-19 and Electricity Use in Humboldt County, contract with the Redwood Coast Energy Authority.
Erick Eschker, PI
2020
Hospitals, Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessment, contract with the California Department of Public Health.
Erick Eschker, PI
2017
Adult Use Manufactured Cannabis, Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessment, contract with the California Department of Public Health.
Erick Eschker, PI
2016-17
Medical Manufactured Cannabis, Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessment, contract with the California Department of Public Health.
Erick Eschker with Gregg Gold and Michelle Lane
2017
Rural Entrepreneurs: What Are the Best Indicators of Their Success? . Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, vol. 24, issue 2 pp. 278-296.
Erick Eschker with Charles Kaplan
2016
A General Economy of Marijuana: Implications for Legalization, Quarterly Journal of the American Institute for Progressive Democracy, October,
pp. 33-47.
Erick Eschker with Josh Meisel
2013
Introduction to Special Issues on Current Perspectives on Marijuana and Society
The Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, issue 35, pp. 1-4
PDF: Introduction to Special Issues on Current Perspectives on Marijuana and Society
Erick Eschker
2010
Real Estate Economics
Invited Chapter in 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook, Rhona Free, ed., Sage
Erick Eschker
2007
Fiscal Redistribution by Age and Generational Inequality in the Twentieth Century
Cal Poly Humboldt Digital Scholar Working Paper #189
PDF: Fiscal Redistribution by Age and Generational Inequality in the Twentieth Century
Erick Eschker with Lara Remke (student)
2006
Ethanol and Competition in a Rural Gasoline Market: A Descriptive Case Study of Eureka, California
Northwest Journal of Business and Economics
Erick Eschker with Soren Messner-Zidell (student)
2005
Is There a Housing Bubble in Humboldt County? The Housing Market in a Rural California Region, 1989-2004
Cal Poly Humboldt Digital Scholar Working Paper #190
PDF: Is There a Housing Bubble in Humboldt County?
Erick Eschker with David Berri
2005
Performance When it Counts? The Myth of the Prime-Time Performer in Professional Basketball
Journal of Economic Issues, September, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 798-807
Erick Eschker
2005
Generational Accounting and the Saving Rate Decline, 1960-2000
Public Budgeting and Finance, March, vol. 25, no. 1, pp, 46-65
Erick Eschker with Steve Perez and Mark Siegler
2004
The NBA and the Influx of International Basketball Players
Applied Economics, June, vol. 36, issue 10, pp. 1009-1020
Erick Eschker
2003
The Characteristics of Countries with Generational Account Imbalances
Steven Ochoa
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