Alison Kelly, Professor

Alison Kelly, PhD

Professor
Department of Economics

 

 

 

 

 

On Sabbatical Fall 2012/Spring 2013

 

Phone: 617.573.8069
Fax: 617.994.4216
Email: akelly@suffolk.edu

Office: 73 Tremont St., Rm. 1010

 

Education

  • PhD, Boston College
  • MA, University of Southern California
  • BA, College of the Holy Cross

Research Interests

  • Productivity Growth
  • Issues in Education
  • Applied Statistical Methods

Employment

Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Professor (2003-present)
Associate Professor  (1997-2003)
Assistant Professor (1992-1997)

 

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Adjunct Professor (1991-present)

 

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®, 2003)

 

Boston Security Analyst Society
Curriculum Coordinator and Instructor (2001-present)

 

Select Publications

“Modeling aggregate productivity growth: A note on returns to scale,” in Focus on Economic Growth and Productivity, ed. L.A. Finley, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2005.

 

“A Note on Modeling Aggregate Productivity Growth: The Importance of Imperfect Markets,” The Journal of Macroeconomics, 23 (Winter 2001).

 

“The Use of Frontier Estimation in Direct Marketing,” co-authored with Dominique Haughton, Jonathan Haughton and Tim Moriarty, Journal of Interactive Marketing, 14 (April 2000).

 

“An Analysis of the Factors that Influence Student Performance: A Fresh Approach to an Old Debate,” co-authored with Sanjiv Jaggia, Contemporary Economic Policy, 17 (April 1999).

 

“Patterns of State Productivity Growth in the U.S. Farm Sector: Linking State and Aggregate Models”, co-authored with Frank Gollop, Eldon Ball and Greg Swinand, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81 (February 1999).

 

“Sectoral productivity growth and price-marginal cost margins in the intermediate goods market,” Review of Income and Wealth, 43 (June 1997).

 

Research

“Skewness and Kurtosis – An examination of Exchange-traded funds’ returns using g and h distributions.”

 

“Practical Considerations when Estimating in the Presence of Autocorrelation” (co-authored with Sanjiv Jaggia).

 

“Exploring the Relationship between Regional Productivity Growth and Wage Differentials: The United States Farm Sector 1960-90.”

 

Courses Taught

EC 122 - Consumer and Financial Economics
EC 723 - Economics of Regulation
EC 802 - Teaching Workshop
STATS 250 - Applied Statistics
STATS 350 - Applied Statistical Methods