Brandon J. Sheridan

I am an Associate Professor of Economics in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kentucky in 2012.

My research spans two areas. In international economics, I study how countries transition through stages of development, focusing on the relationship between economic growth takeoffs and the structure of international trade — examining both the extensive and intensive margins of trade using quantile regression and sorted effects approaches. In economics education, I investigate how active learning strategies and technology shape student outcomes, including a long-running research program on social media in the economics classroom.

I am a co-editor of Teaching Economics Online (Edward Elgar, 2024) and a founding member of the Economic Education Network for Experiments (EENE). I currently serve as a CATL Pedagogy Fellow at Elon (2025–2027).

At Elon, I teach Intermediate Macroeconomics, International Trade & Finance, Principles of Economics, and Federal Reserve Challenge. I am also a long-time coach and advisor for Elon’s Federal Reserve Challenge team and mentor undergraduate senior thesis research.

Outside of academia, I occasionally write about economics at Economics BS on Substack.