Rate My Professor Rich Higgins

Higgins maintains an active research profile with publications in prominent peer-reviewed journals. Key works include “Changes in Central Bank Leadership and Inflation Dynamics” (with I. Qureshi, Southern Economic Journal, 2025), “Time-Varying Volatility and the Housing Market” (with A. Sapci, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2024), “Risk and Uncertainty: The Role of Financial Frictions” (Economic Modelling, 2023), “Financial Frictions and Changing Macroeconomic Volatility” (Journal of Macroeconomics, 2020), and “Estimating General Equilibrium Models With Stochastic Volatility and Changing Parameters” (Economic Modelling, 2017). He has advised Colgate's Federal Reserve Challenge teams annually from 2014 through 2023, leading to competitive placements including semifinals and regional successes. Higgins supervises senior honors theses in economics, with recent topics covering the spillover effects of United States presidential elections on foreign markets, the economic impact of carrying government debt on interest rates, and the impact of inflation targeting on macroeconomic performance during recessions. He serves as faculty liaison for the men's lacrosse program and has contributed to public engagement through a 2024 podcast episode on the national debt alongside colleague Nicole Simpson for Colgate's 13 series.