Assistant Professor of Business

Ph.D., University of Washington (1992)
Email: Julie.Elston@osucascades.edu
Office Phone: (541) 322-3100
Office Number: Cascades Hall 237

Julie Ann Elston is an assistant professor of International Business at Oregon State University Cascades. She is teaching international business, finance, corporate finance, and global marketing. Dr. Elston is a regular contributor to the field small firm studies, serving as Review Editor of Small Business Economics since 1998. She has worked as a consultant to a number of international governmental agencies and firms including: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Deutsche Bundesbank (German Central Bank). Since 2003 she has been a consultant to the National Academies of Science Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in Washington DC assessing the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

Dr. Elston graduated from the University of Washington's Department of Economics in June 1992. From 1992-1996 she was a Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) in Germany. In 1995-1996 she was invited as a Visiting Scholar to the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, where she participated in the Comparative Institutional Analysis program sponsored by the Economics Department and the School of Business. 1996-97 she taught at the California Institute of Technology. In 2001 Dr. Elston was selected as a Policy Fellow in the Robert Bosch Foundation Scholars Program in Comparative Public Policy and Institutions at the American Institute for Contemporary German Policy. She has been a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena since 2003.
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Research

Dr. Elston has published a numerous articles in academic journals and books in the fields of financial economics and industrial organization. Her research focuses on firm investment and financing behavior in the context of country-specific institutional relationships.
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Research

Teaching

Class syllabi and Power-Point lecture notes.
Teaching