Jerome McElroy, Ph.D.

Jerome L. McElroy has held teaching positions at St. John's College in Belize, Central America, the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana USA. Presently, he is Professor of Economics in the Department of Business Administration and Economics at Saint Mary's College.

His research has focused on the development problems of small Caribbean islands, more specifically the economics of tourism, inter-island migration, sustainable small-scale agriculture, the economic impact of political status change, and the problems of planning in small open economies. More recent work has involved applying the destination life cycle model to understand the environmental impact of tourism in small islands, developing an index of tourism penetration for island destinations, and examining the links between tourism development and dependent political status. Presently, he is examining the socio-economic differences between labor-exporting and labor-importing islands, the economic advantages of offshore banking, and the long-term propensity for small islands to remain politically dependent.

• principles of economics
• macroeconomics
• international trade
• development
• development problems of small islands

• Small-island development problems, particularly in the Caribbean
• economic advantages of political dependence
• impact and measurement of tourism development in islands
• insular socio-economic correlates of race and ethnicity
• Caribbean crime patterns and their impact on tourism, the determinants of the small island tourist economy (SITEs)

• B.A., Ph.L., M.A., St. Louis University
• Ph.D., University of Colorado