Faculty & Staff
Janis Kapler, PhD
- Department Associate Chair, Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts Associate Professor of Economics
- Telephone: 617-287-6955
- Email: jk.kapler@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall,05,00032
Areas of Expertise
International Trade and Finance, Open-Economy Macroeconomics, Transnational Corporations
Degrees
PhD, American University
Additional Information
Professor Janis Kapler has chaired the Economics Department for the past three years. During this time, the department has created a new M.A. in Applied Economics, which will begin operations in the fall of 2012. We have also hired five new tenure-track faculty and seven new adjunct faculty. The number of economics majors has grown 41%. Professor Kapler teaches courses on international finance, lately with a focus on the euro crisis, intermediate macroeconomics, and multinational corporations. She recently published a book chapter on outsourcing in the pharmaceutical industry in Contractor, Kumar, Kundu and Pedersen, eds., Global Outsourcing and Offshoring: An Integrated Approach to Theory and Corporate Strategy (Cambridge University Press).
