Economics Department
Faculty Profile
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Janice Boucher Breuer
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Biography
Dr. Breuer earned a B.S. in Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Delaware in 1982. She then earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987 with fields in International Economics and Econometrics. Dr. Breuer has been teaching since 1987 in the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She is tenured as a Professor in the Department of Economics. Dr. Breuer has taught International Monetary Theory, International Trade, and Macroeconomics. She has taught in the MBA program, the Ph.D. program, the IMBA program, the undergraduate program, and the Honors program. She has also chaired or served as a member on Ph.D. and master's level thesis projects. Dr. Breuer served a one-year appointment as Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from 1990-91. While there, she received first-hand experience about how U.S. monetary policy is made. She participated in Bank briefings about the state of the national economy and in making recommendations to the Board of Governors regarding the level of interest rates. Dr. Breuer's primary research interest deals with exchange rates, financial crises, and time series econometrics. Her work has been published in the Economic Journal, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Japan and the World Economy, the International Journal of Finance and Economics, the Review of International Economics, the Southern Economic Journal, the Global Finance Journal, the Journal of Macroeconomics, Applied Economics, and the Journal of International and Comparative Economics. She also has a chapter in Essays in Estimating Equilibrium Exchange Rates published by the Institute for International Economics in 1994 and distributed worldwide. She is also the author of a study guide for Principles of Economics. Dr. Breuer is a Christian, married, has two children, and a dog. Education
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