Rate My Professor Rita Madarassy-Akin

Rita Madarassy-Akin is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Economics at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business, contributing to the Business & Economics faculty. She earned a Ph.D. in International Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2002, an M.A. in International Economics from UC Santa Cruz in 1997, and a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics with Honors, Magna Cum Laude, from Lafayette College in 1995. At Santa Clara University since 2010, she teaches courses including Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, International Economics, Development and Growth, Econometrics, Aggregate Economic Theory, Statistics, International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, and online Principles of Macroeconomics. Her prior appointments include Assistant Professor of Economics at Westminster College from 2003 to 2009, where she taught Economic Reasoning, Statistics, Money and Banking, International Economics, and Intermediate Microeconomics; Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, Turkey from 2006 to 2007, teaching International Economics and Strategy and Games; and Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley from 2002 to 2003, teaching Intermediate Microeconomics and International Trade.

Madarassy-Akin’s academic interests lie in international economics and financial markets. Key publications include “Maturity Effects in Futures Markets: Evidence from Eleven Financial Futures Markets” (UC Santa Cruz Economics Working Paper No. 03-6, 2003), “Free to Flow? New Results on Capital Mobility Amongst the Developed Countries” with Menzie David Chinn (UC Santa Cruz Center for International Economics Working Paper No. 02-20, 2002), “Market Efficiency and the Lead-Lag Relationship Between Futures and Spot Rates for the Australian Dollar” with Dan Fischmar (Pennsylvania Economic Review, Fall 2009), “SPSS Manual” accompanying Business Statistics (Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2009 and 2011 editions), and “Empirical Determinants of Banking Crises: Japan’s Experience in International Perspective” with Michael Hutchison and Kathleen McDill (1999). She has presented research at the Western Economic Association International Conference (2011), International Atlantic Economics Association Annual Conference (2008), Pennsylvania Economic Association Annual Conference (2008), and Midwestern Economics Association Conference (2006). Honors include the U.C. Santa Cruz Doctoral Sabbatical Fellowship (2001), Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (1994), and Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society (1994). She has actively participated in workshops on sustainability across the curriculum, online teaching practices, and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco research conferences.