Lamp Faculty
Robert Becker
Executive Associate Dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences
Professor of Economics
L416 Faculty
Phone: (812) 855-3014
Email: becker@indiana.edu
Office: Wylie Hall 214
Office Hours: TBA
Education
A.B. Economics, Magna Cum Laude, Washington University, 1972
M.A., University of Rochester, 1975
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1978
Background
Professor Becker's primary research and teaching interests are in the fields of capital theory and general equilibrium analysis. His research has focused on the relationship between optimal growth paths and dynamic equilibrium programs, as well as on the dynamics of capital accumulation programs with heterogeneous agents and incomplete markets. Most recently, he has been engaged in a study of the foundations of recursive utility functions that serve as the objective of agents in a variety of dynamic models. This research is presented in his monograph Capital Theory, Equilibrium Analysis, and Recursive Utility (co-authored with John H. Boyd, III) published by Basil Blackwell Publishers in 1997. He has published articles on questions arising in dynamic competitive models in journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, and Econometrica. Professor Becker is also the co-editor with Professor Edwin Burmeister of Growth Theory, Edward Elgar, 1990. This is a three volume collection of reprinted articles on descriptive, optimal and equilibrium growth theories. Professor Becker is also serving as and Associate Editor of Economic Theory, The International Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of Public Economic Theory. Professor Becker is currently Executive Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
