Gary (Hoov) Hoover

Gary "Hoov" Hoover is the Executive Director of The Murphy Institute and Professor of Economics at Tulane University. Hoov  is a scholar and nationally renowned economist in the study of economic policy and its impact on wealth and income inequality. His research focuses on the intersection of economics, race, and public policy. 

Hoover came to Tulane from the University of Oklahoma, where he served as the department chair of economics from 2015-2020. In 2017, he was appointed a President’s Associates Presidential Professorship, a prestigious group established to recognize those faculty members who excel in all of their professional activities and relate those activities to the students they teach and mentor. Before Oklahoma, Hoover spent 16 years teaching at the University of Alabama from 1998-2014, where he was the William White McDonald Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow and the James I. Harrison Family Endowed Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow from 2002-2004. He served as the assistant dean for faculty and graduate student development in the Culverhouse College of Business Administration from 2005-2014.

Since 2012, Hoov has served as co-chair of the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession. This group was established in 1968 to increase the representation of minorities in the economics profession, primarily by broadening opportunities for the training of underrepresented minorities. He is the current and founding editor of the Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, which examines the intersection of local and global issues concerning economic conditions, race, ethnicity and gender, and policy prescriptions that address economic disparities. He served as the vice president of the Southern Economic Association from 2018-2020. He has been a fellow at CESifo Group Munich since 2010 and is a member of the Western Economic Association and American Economic Association.

Hoov’s papers have been published in the American Economic Review P&P, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Public Choice, Journal of Economic Literature, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Conflict Resolution and the European Journal of Political Economy. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. Hoov is a network member at the Center for Economic Studies & ifo Institute in Munich, Germany. He has also been a guest professor at the Universities of Hannover and Konstanz in Germany, the University of Vienna in Austria and X’ian University in China. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1993. He earned both his master’s (1995) and PhD (1998) in economics from Washington University in St. Louis.

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