Economics (9th Edition) – Boyes/Melvin – eBook

Author(s)

Michael Melvin

Dr. Michael Melvin is the Head of Currency Research At Barclays Global Investors. He is also affiliated with the Arizona State University Department of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. In 1980, Dr. Melvin earned his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.

He has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as a Fulbright Professor at the University of Frankfurt and a visiting professor at UCLA, Northwestern University, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Hawaii. International Finance is his area of expertise, and he is the coeditor of the Journal of International Money and Finance.

William Boyes

Dr. William J. Boyes is an economics professor at Arizona State University.
In 1974, he obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Claremont Graduate School.
Prior to joining the Arizona State faculty, he served as the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Business at Weber State University, as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and the University of London in London, England, and as a lecturer at ITAM in Mexico City. He was also the dean of the College of Business at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Professor Boyes has also worked as the chairman of ASU's Economics Department and as an economist at Security Pacific National Bank (now Bank of America). He has worked as a consultant for the White House, the Commerce Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and a number of private corporations. He is the director of ASU's office of economic education and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Pacific Research Institute. Dr. Boyes has received numerous teaching awards, including the Golden Key National Honor Society Outstanding Professor Award at Arizona State University in 1988, the Outstanding Teacher in the MBA Program Award at ASU in 1994, the Outstanding Teacher in the College of Business Award at ASU in 1995, Huizingh Outstanding Honors Professor in 2007, and Outstanding MBA Professor in 2008.