Chris Whaley
- December 17th, 2018
Chris Whaley
Economics, EFLS, Faculty
| Email: | cawhaley1@culverhouse.ua.edu |
| Department: | Economics, Finance, & Legal Studies |
| Title: | Instructor of Finance |
| Phone: | 205-348-6033 |
| Building: | Hewson Hall |
| Office: | 3016 |
| Education: | Ph.D. University of Alabama |
| M.S., Auburn University | |
| B.S., Auburn University |
Dr. Whaley is an applied microeconomist with research interests centering around risk, uncertainty, and insurance. His research focuses primarily on higher-order risk attitudes and how individual behavior affects distributional characteristics like variance, skewness and kurtosis. His work encompasses a wide base of sub-disciplines including applications in contest theory, finance, health economics, and agricultural economics.
Focus and Current Research
Risk and uncertainty
Insurance
Health economics