Craig A. Depken, II

Associate Professor of Economics
Belk College of Business
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Xavier University

Dr. Craig A. Depken, II is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Depken holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Georgia. Dr. Depken specializes in applied microeconomics and industrial organization with a focus on firm strategies and market structure. He has taught courses in econometrics, international economics, and industrial organziation covering topics such as economic statistics, game theory, international finance, and valuing firm stragies.

His primary areas of research are applied microeconomics, public policy and applied industrial organization. He has published extensively in journals such as The Review of Industrial Organization, The Journal of Business, The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Uban Economics, The Southern Economic Journal, The Journal of Applied Economics and Contemporary Economic Policy. He sits on the editorial board of the Open Management Journal and is the author of Microeconomics Demystified, published by McGraw–Hill.