Department of Economics

Nastassia Krukava
Lecturer
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2017

Macroeconomics; Firm Dynamics; Misallocation of Resources; Analysis of Health Insurance and Health Care Policies

Nastassia joined the Department of Economics at Indiana University in July 2017. Her primary responsibilities include teaching an undergraduate course in Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics. Her research focuses on inefficiencies generated by the system of employer-sponsored health insurance on the production side of the economy. Nastassia earned her B.A. in Economic Cybernetics from Belarus State Economic University (Belarus) in 2003, M.S. in Economics from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008, and her Ph.D. (jointly with M.S.) in Economics from Arizona State University in 2017. Prior to joining Indiana University, Nastassia also held a faculty position at Belarus State Economic University and a researcher position at the Economic Research Institute of the Ministry of Economy of Belarus.

Nick Snow
Lecturer
Ph.D., George Mason University, 2012

Political Economy of Prohibition

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University in 2012, where I wrote my dissertation under Peter J. Boettke. My research interests are primarily on the political economy of prohibition, but I am also interested in Austrian economics, law and economics, public choice theory, history of economic thought, and constitutional political economy.

My first two years out of graduate school, I was senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at The Ohio State University. I taught several courses there including Issues in the Underground Economy; Government and Business; Economics of Crime; Economics of War; Honors Principles of Microeconomics; Intermediate Microeconomics; and Current Economic Issues in the United States.

From 2014 to 1016, I was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Kenyon College where I taught new courses such as the Economics of Regulation; Principles of Micro and Macroeconomics; and Constitutional Political Economy. I also taught my first seminars on Black Markets, Economics of Crime, and American Economic History.

Last year, I was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Wabash College. In Fall 2018, I will join the Department of Economics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.