Faculty Profile

Professor Watson received his PhD in economics from Indiana University in 1981. His research areas include public economics, health economics, and applied microeconomics and research in these areas has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the European Economic Review, the National Tax Journal, Public Finance Quarterly, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Public Choice, and the Southern Economic Journal. He has served as a consultant for the National Science Foundation and the World Bank.

Professor
PhD, Indiana University

Interests: Public finance, microeconomic theory, economic effects of tax policy.

Courses:

• Econ 11: Principles of Microeconomics
• Econ 12: Principles of Macroeconomics
• Econ 101: Intermediate Microeconomics
• Econ 102: Intermediate Macroeconomics
• Econ 161: Public Finance, Expenditure Analysis
• Econ 162: Public Finance, Taxation
• Econ 198: Proseminar in Economics
• Econ 217: Microeconomics
• Econ 218: Macroeconomics
• Econ 301: Microeconomic Theory I
• Econ 363: Public Finance I
• Econ 364: Public Finance II

Contact Information:
Office: Monroe 309
202-994-6685
hsw@gwu.edu