Carmen Astorne, PhD
Associate Dean, Academic Programs & Research | Associate Professor
Curriculum Vitae Website
Biography
Dr. Carmen Astorne is the Associate Dean, Academic Programs & Research and an Associate Professor of Economics at the Fogelman College of Business & Economics
(FCBE) at the University of Memphis.
Dr. Astorne is an applied microeconomist specialized in game theoretic modeling and
behavioral economics, which allows her to study a wide range of real-world topics.
Dr. Astorne has also participated in interdisciplinary studies, one of them funded
by the National Science Foundation, and her research has been featured in national
media (The Washington Post).
Dr. Astorne has 19 years of teaching experience, spanning the Doctoral, Masters and
Undergraduate levels. She currently teaches the first-year two-course microeconomics
sequence for Master's and PhD students in Economics, and has also taught graduate-level
courses in Game Theory and Industrial Organization, an upper-level undergraduate course
in Behavioral Economics, and large sections of introductory microeconomics at FCBE.
She has prior teaching experience at Washington University in St. Louis, where she
obtained her PhD and MA in Economics, and Universidad del Pacífico, Lima (Peru) where
she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Economics.
Before her doctoral studies, Dr. Astorne worked as a Junior Researcher and Instructor
at Universidad del Pacifico. Aside from teaching undergraduate courses, she contributed
to research for consulting projects in a variety of economic fields including litigation
cases, international trade, GDP forecasts, economic impact studies and environmental
economics.
Research
Journal Articles
- Are Changes of Major Major Changes? The Roles of Grades, Gender, and Preferences in
College Major Switching (with Jamin D. Speer), Economics of Education Review, 2019.
- Advertising for Consideration (with Joaquin Lopez and Aleksandr Yankelevich), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019.
- An empirical investigation on the transfer of expatriates within MNCs from a knowledge
perspective (with Joonhyung Lee), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019.
- Drop out, switch majors, or persist? The contrasting gender gaps (with Jamin D. Speer)
Economics Letters, 2018.
- Consumer Search with Asymmetric Price Sampling (with Aleksandr Yankelevich), Economics Letters, 2014.