Hugh Kelley joined the Department of Economics in 2009. He obtained a B.Sc. (Economics) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD (International Economics) from the University of California­-Santa Cruz.

Prior to coming to NUI, Galway, Dr. Kelley was a tenured Associate Professor at Copenhagen University in FOI's Division of International Economics from 2006 to 2008; and an Assistant Professor at Indiana University-Bloomington Department of Economics, from 2000 to 2005. He also completed a NIMH PostDoc in Mathematical Modelling of Cognition at Indiana University's Department of Psychology.

He has published papers in Economic Inquiry, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, and Journal of Environmental Management, and co-authored chapters in a number of books.

Dr Kelley has also pursued an active funded research agenda contributing to three research grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, and an FP7 Framework grant from the European Comission; altogether garnering research funds worth over 4 million euro since 2000.

Selected Publications:

Kelley, H., Busemeyer, J., 2008, ‘A comparison of models for learning how to integrate multiple cues in order to forecast continuous criteria: A comparison of least squares and neural network approaches’, Journal of Mathematical Psychology 52.

Evans, T., Kelley, H. 2004, ‘Multi-scale analysis of a household level agent-based model of land cover change’, Journal of Environmental Management 72, 1-2.

Kelley, H. 2004, ‘Asset pricing with behavioral traders: A test of the country fund discount’, Journal of Behavioral Finance 5, 4.

Friedman, D., Kelley, H. 2003. ‘Asset market experiments’, in Nadel, L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, London: MacMillan.