Anna Klis is an Associate Professor of Economics at Northern Illinois University.
She is an applied game theorist. Her fields include public economics, environmental economics, and microeconomic theory, with a focus on externalities and coordination.
Education
Professor Klis earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (Dissertation Title: 'Essays on Externalities and International Cooperation: A Game Theoretic Approach') in May 2015 and joined NIU the following August. Klis is a microeconomist who applies the techniques of game theory to questions of public economics and externalities. She is also a faculty associate with the NIU Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy and the School for Public and Global Affairs.
Expertise
- Game theory
- Public economics
- Environmental economics
Courses Taught
- ECON 186: Introduction to Environmental Economics
- ECON 374: Game Theory
- ECON 489/589: Seminar in Economic Analysis (Environmental Topics)
- ECON 491/591: Mathematical Methods for Economics
- ECON 660: Microeconomics I
- ECON 750: Public Sector Economics I
Publications
- Game Theory and Environmental Agreements: Getting Started with Coalition Models. (2022). EBSCO Pathways to Research in Sustainability, inaugural edition SUS027, [s. l.], p. 1–18, 2022.
- Inequality and Superfund Sites: Using Backwards Design, Cooperative Learning, and Data Integration in Introductory Environmental Economics. (2023). Journal of Economic Education, Volume 54 (4).
- Superfund cleanup time and community characteristics: A survival analysis with Leili Solatyavari and Jeremy Groves. (2022). Journal of Environmental Management, 320: 115705 (October).