School of Economics

Dr. Patrick McCarthy received his PhD in Economics from Claremont Graduate University. He joined Georgia Tech in 2000 as Professor and Chair of the School of Economics, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, serving as Chair until 2011. Professor McCarthy is also Director of the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, one of twenty-five Industry Centers funded by the Sloan Foundation, and is on the Advisory Board of the Sloan Funded Trucking Industry Program at Georgia Tech. He is an Associate Editor of Transportation Research E. His research areas include transportation economics, regulation, industry studies, and applied econometrics. He is the author of Transportation Economics Theory and Practice: A Case Study Approach (Blackwell Publishers 2001), has published widely in academic journals, edited volumes, and conference proceedings. The Sloan Foundation Industry Centers Program, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Asian Development Bank, the Federal Aviation Administration, and Georgia Department of Transportation have supported his research. Professor McCarthy previously taught at Purdue University where he was a Professor of Economics and Civil Engineering. And he has received visiting appointments at Hunan University (Changsha, China), Chinese University of Finance and Economics (Beijing, China), Duisburg-Essen University (Germany), the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (Greece), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the University of Southern California. He teaches courses in transportation economics, research methods, and discrete choice econometrics.