Stephen Haynes

PLC 418; 541-346-4665; shaynes@uoregon.edu


Biographical Information

Stephen E. Haynes , Professor and Department Associate Head, received a B.S. in Zoology in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1976 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He joined the department in 1978.

Research Interests

Stephen Haynes has primary interests in international economics and public choice issues in macroeconomics. In the international area his work focuses on the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on the U.S. trade balance, and the determinants of floating exchange rates. In current projects, Professor Haynes is exploring how exchange rate volatility biases the measurement of antidumping duties (with Bruce Blonigen); the importance of cross-price effects in demand between export and import goods, with implications for the J-curve; and the confounding impact of third-country factors on empirical models of bilateral exchange rates. In the areas of public choice and macroeconomics, Professor Haynes has written several papers with Joe Stone (research supported by a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation). This work shows that movements in U.S. macroeconomic performance (unemployment, GNP growth, and inflation) and policy follow significant four-year cycles that differ by political party. In other papers, Professor Haynes demonstrates how these partisan business cycles influence the popularity of the President as the election approaches, and that the performance of the economy alters the party affiliation of the electorate.

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Teaching

Professor Haynes teaches international finance and econometrics at the graduate level. At the undergraduate level he teaches international economics and econometrics.