Derek Laing

Derek Laing

Contact Information:

dlaing@syr.edu

133 Eggers Hall

Office Hours:

Tuesday and Thursday 3:30 - 4:30 via Zoom or by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Derek Laing

Associate Professor, Economics Department

Courses

  • 2025 Spring
    • ECN 102 Introductory Macroeconomics
    • ECN 602 Survey Macroeconomic Theory
  • 2024 Fall
    • ECN 101 Introductory Microeconomics
    • ECN 601 Survey Microeconomic Theory
  • 2024 Spring
    • ECN 102 Introductory Macroeconomics
    • ECN 602 Survey Macroeconomic Theory
  • 2023 Fall
    • ECN 101 Introductory Microeconomics
    • ECN 601 Survey Microeconomic Theory
  • 2023 Spring
    • ECN 102 Introductory Macroeconomics
    • ECN 602 Survey Macroeconomic Theory

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of Essex, 1990

Areas of Expertise

Macroeconomics, monetary theory, labor economics

Selected Publications

  • Books
    • Laing, D., Introduction to Classic and the New Labor Economics—Supplementary Materials. W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.
    • Laing, D., Introduction to Classic and the New Labor Economics. W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.
  • Journal Articles
    • Laing, D., Li, V. and Wang, P., "Money and Prices in a Multiple Matching Search Model." Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2011.
    • Laing, D., Li, V. and Wang, P., "Time Allocation, Inflation and Welfare in a Multiple Matching Model of Money." Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007.
    • Laing, D., Park, C. and Wang, P., A Modified Harris-Todaro Model of Rural–Urban Migration For China. , 2004.
    • Laing, D., Huang, C. and Wang, P., "Crime and Poverty." International Economic Review, 2004.
    • Laing, D., Palivos, T. and Wang, P., "The Economics of New Blood." Journal of Economic Theory, 2003.
    • Laing, D., Palivos , T. and Wang , P., "Vertical Innovation, Product Cycles and Endogenous Growth in Search Equilibrium." Economic Theory, 2002.
    • Coulson, ., Laing, D. and Wang, P., "Spatial Mismatch in Search Equilibrium." Journal of Labor Economics, 2001.

Presentations and Events

Public Economic Theory Meetings, "Good-Jobs and Bad-Jobs in the Process of Rural–Urban Migration" (July, 2015)

University of Illinois Chicago, "Frictions of the Mind: A Search Based Model of Limited Rationality" (2012)

Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, "In or Out the Closet? An Assortative Matching Model of Gay Marriages and Civil Unions" (2011)

SUNY Binghamton, "Frictions of the Mind: A Search Based Model of Limited Rationality" (2010)

Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, "Frictions of the Mind: A Search Based Model of Limited Rationality" (2009)

Honors and Accolades

Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor, Penn State (December, 2005)

Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor, Penn State (May, 2003)

Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor, Penn State (December, 1999)

Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor, Penn State (May, 1997)

Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor, Penn State (May, 1996)