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Will Fisher

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william.fisher@humboldt.edu
  • Siemens Hall 206C

Office Hours

    Office Hours

    Face to Face Wednesday 11:00-12:00 and Zoom Monday 2:00-3:00 PM

    Email me to let me know you are coming

    Will Fisher

    Associate Professor

    • Ph.D., University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2014

    Erick Eschker

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    Contact

    Erick@humboldt.edu
    • Siemens Hall 206B

    Office Hours

      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

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