David L. Cleeton

ISU welcomes David L. Cleeton as Professor of Economics and Department Chair.  He received his Ph.D. from Washington University and served in academic and leadership positions with Oberlin College, Christopher Newport University and Ohio State University.

His areas of expertise include financial economics and European economic integration with publications appearing in the American Economic Review, Public Finance Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Health Care Financing Review, and Southern Economic Journal.

He is coauthor (with Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie) of the textbook Financial Economics. Professor Cleeton joins Illinois State University having served as Economics Department Chair at Oberlin College, Dean of Social Sciences and Business at Christopher Newport University, and in a recent visiting faculty position with Ohio State University. He was selected as a Fulbright Chair of EU-US Relations at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium) and recognized as a Fellow of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network affiliated with the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.