Alison Kelly, Professor

Alison Kelly

Professor

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mailing address

Department of Economics
Suffolk University
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108

 

Phone:(617) 573-8069

 

Fax: (617) 994-4216

 

Email: akelly@suffolk.edu

 

Office location

One Bowdoin Square, 6th Floor

 

Research Interests

• Productivity Growth
• Issues in Education
• Applied Statistical Methods

 

Education

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®), 2003

Boston College

Ph.D., Economics, 1993

University of Southern California

M.A., Economics, 1987

College of the Holy Cross

B.A., Economics, 1986

 

Employment

Suffolk University, Boston, MA: Professor of Economics (2003 - Present)
Associate Professor  (1997 - 2003)
Assistant Professor (1992 - 1997)

 

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

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

EC723 – Economics of Regulation
EC122 – Consumer and Financial Economics
EC 802 - Teaching Workshop
STATS 250- Applied Statistics
STATS 350 - Applied Statistical Methods