Courses
Dr. Calkins’ primary teaching interests include Principles of Economics,
Intermediate Microeconomics, Public Finance, and Industrial Organization
and Antitrust.
Research
Dr. Calkins has written on state
and local business taxes (Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy),
state technology incentives (Journal of Regional Science), tax effects
in bond yield differentials (Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance),
gender differences in management style (The CPA Journal) and the effects
of mandatory seat belt laws on motor vehicle fatalities (Social Science
Quarterly – forthcoming). Her current research focuses on a comparison
of the concept of risk aversion in the fields of economics and psychology,
and on the factors influencing the undergraduate determination of major. |