Scott Deacle teaches courses in finance, economics, econometrics, and research methods. He also serves as Business and Economics Department Chair and advises the Ursinus College student-managed investment fund. Deacle’s research has covered a variety of topics, mostly related to financial institutions, including the Federal Home Loan Banks, community banks and thrifts, commercial bank ownership of real estate, the pre-Civil War “free” banking system, and in the relationship. A current project examines the impact of firms’ advertising spending and social media presence on retail stock investors’ behavior.

Deacle earned a bachelors degree in history from The College of William and Mary and then worked as a reporter at newspapers in Scranton, Pa., Pittsburgh, Danville, Va., and Wake Forest, N.C. He rarely wrote about business or economics but did enjoy reading The Wall Street Journal. After six years in newspapers, Deacle entered graduate school at Temple University, where he earned his PhD in economics.

While a graduate student at Temple, he co-authored a graduate-level textbook on the design of economic mechanisms with Professor Dimitrios Diamantaras and three other graduate students. The textbook is called “A Toolbox for Mechanism Design” (Palgrave, 2011).