Jonathan H. (Jon) Hamilton
Professor Hamilton taught competitive strategy in the MBA program, game theory, industrial organization, and mathematical techniques in the Ph.D. program, and law and economics in the undergraduate program.
His research focuses on theoretical public economics with a focus on models of tax competition and optimal income taxation. Recently, he has studied prescription drug pricing and guarantees in art auctions. Professor Hamilton has been a visiting faculty member at CORE (Université Catholique de Louvain), Duke University, the Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), and the University of Virginia. He served as Editor of the Southern Economic Journal from 1997 to 2003, and later as Vice‐President and President of the Southern Economic Association. Currently, he serves as Counsel to the Southern Economic Journal, advising the Association on business matters with the Journal. From 1995 to 2004, he was an Associate Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics.
In the Warrington College of Business Administration, Professor Hamilton was the R. Perry Frankland Professor of Economics from 2005 to 2014. From 2009 to 2014, he served as a faculty leader for the MBA Global Immersion Experience in China.
Editorial Boards: Associate Editor, Southern Economic Journal, 2003‐2012, Senior Associate Editor, January 2013-present Associate Editor, Economics Bulletin, 2007‐2018
Education
- PHD – Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
- BA – Economics, Yale University, 1976
Research Interests
Public Economics, Game Theory, Location Theory
Contact Information
University of Florida
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of Economics
PO Box 117140
334 MAT
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7140
352.392.2999
Email: hamilton@ufl.edu