Helen Roberts
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Associate Director, Center for Economic Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1995,
M.M. Teaching, Oberlin College, 1978
Phone: (312) 355-0378 Fax: (312) 996-3344
E-Mail:hroberts@uic.edu
Homepage:http://www.uic.edu/~hroberts/
Fields of Interest : Economic Education, Industrial Organization, International Trade and Financial Economics.
Selected Research :
"Contributions of Laspeyres," Manuscript, February 2001.
"Donations Under Declining Average Costs," June 2000.
Laspeyres and His Index, Presented at the European Conference on Economic History, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, April 2000, pp. 201-213.
"American Jewish Donations to Israel," Contempory Jewry, 1999, Vol. 20, pp.210-213. Competition, Cost Theory, and Trade Under Declining Average Cost: The US Market for Small Cars, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1995.
Current Research Interests:
Economic Education
Micro structure of the auto industry, history of price indices, economics of philanthropy
Other Significant Accomplishments :
Money $mart Award, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2002
Rookie of the Year, National Association of Economic Educators, 2001.
Senior Financial Economist and Assistant Vice President, First National Bank of Chicago, 1984-1991.
Who’s Who in Midwestern Women 1990-1991.
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