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Continuing U.S. and World Economic Crisis

The University of Maryland has a number of economic experts available to comment on the continuing financial crisis in the U.S. and around the world.

Professor Margaret Pearson can talk about China's reaction to the debt ceiling crisis, etc.

Please see our separate expert's list on the debt limit crisis.

Examples: Historian David Sicilia is an expert of the Federal Reserve and the Greenspan era.

Tyser Teaching Fellow, Prof. Elinda Kiss, in the Smith School of Business says: "The government made the correct decision not to bail out Lehman. If Wall Street wants deregulation and government out of its hair when it is making money engaging in riskier activities then it should not expect the government to come to its rescue when it falters. Yes, there is turmoil today, but ultimately survivors will be stronger if the moral hazard is eliminated or lessened. The moral hazard was that Wall Street engaged in risky activities, expecting to make huge profits yet expecting a government stop-gap if they did not."

Feel free to contact the experts directly or contact University Communications: 301-405-4621 or 301-257-0073 (after-hours).

Experts are listed alphabetically.


Number of experts found: 42

 
Gar Alperovitz

Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
History/future of nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament strategies; political-economic issues including state/local responses to globalization, national fiscal crisis, wealth inequality, innovative responses to job outsourcing, social security reform, progressive trade policy

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

443-801-8706

press@democracycollaborative.org

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Lawrence M. Ausubel

Prof

Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Microeconomic theory, particularly in game theory and the economics of asymmetric information, bilateral bargaining, multiple-object auctions, the credit card market, and other aspects of industrial organization and financial markets.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3495

ausubel@umd.edu

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Joseph P. Bailey

Res Assoc Prof, Lecturer

Decision, Operations & Information Technologies

Expertise Key Words:
Internet economics, Internet policy, telecommunications, electronic commerce, Health Insurance Exchange

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2174

jpbailey@umd.edu

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J. Robert Baum

Assoc Prof

Entrepreneurship

Expertise Key Words:
New Venture Financing Venture Capital Angel Investing Entrepreneur's Personal Characteristics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3908

jrbaum@rhsmith.umd.edu

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Jie Chen

Assistant Professor

Health Services Administration

Expertise Key Words:
health economics, quantitative analysis, health disparity, health services research.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2469

jichen@umd.edu

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David L. Conrad

Sr Agent

UME-Region II

Expertise Key Words:
Tobacco Science Tobacco Production Tobacco Economics Tobacco Outlook

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 627 8440

dlconrad@umd.edu

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Peter Cramton

Prof

Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Auctions, auction design, market design, spectrum auctions, electricity auctions, energy auctions, carbon auctions, emission auctions, treasury auctions, slot auctions.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

240 396 1043

cramton@umd.edu

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Maureen L. Cropper

Affiliate Prof, Dist Univ Prof Chair

Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Valuing environmental amenities (especially environmental health effects), on the discounting of future health benefits, and on the tradeoffs implicit in environmental regulations

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3483

mcropper@umd.edu

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Herman E. Daly

Prof

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Ecological and environmental economics; environmental policy; steady state economics; economic development.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6360
none

hdaly@umd.edu

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Waverly Ding

Asst Prof

Management & Organization

Expertise Key Words:
* Entrepreneurship
* Technology strategy
* Innovation
* Labor productivity in science and technology

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2320

wding@umd.edu

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Martin E. Dresner

Prof

Logistics, Business & Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Air transport management and policy; supply chain management.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2204

mdresner@umd.edu

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Elisabeth Gilmore

Asst Prof

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
economics of fuel economy and energy efficiency in the US, the costs and environmental implications of passenger vehicles in India, and the treatment of non-marginal environmental change in policy analysis

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6360

gilmore@umd.edu

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Curtis M. Grimm

Prof

Logistics, Business & Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Competition, competition policy, deregulation, and microeconomic reform.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2235

cmgrimm@umd.edu

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John G. Haaga

Lecturer

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
The economics, demography, epidemiology, cognitive science, behavioral and population genetics, behavioral medicine, and health services related to aging.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6971

jhaaga@umd.edu

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John C. Haltiwanger

Dist Univ Prof

Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Former Chief Economist of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Developing and studying U.S. longitudinal firm-level data to study job creation, job destruction and economic performance.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3504

halt@umd.edu

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Hiroyuki Iseki

Asst Prof

Center for Smart Growth Research & Education

Expertise Key Words:
* Transportation Planning
* Transportation Policy
* Transportation Economics and Finance
* Public Transit Planning and Management
* Travel Behavior Analysis and Modeling
* Regional Transportation and Land Use Planning
* Applications of GISs to planning and policy analysis

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4403

hiseki@umd.edu

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Bartlomiej K. Kaminski

Assoc Prof

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
Political Economy; International Relations; Comparative Politics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4126

bkaminsk@umd.edu

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David I. Kass

Lecturer

Tyser Teaching Fellow, Finance

Expertise Key Words:
Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Investments, Economics, Financial Crisis, Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett, Mergers and Acquisitions, Interest Rates, Valuation of Stocks, Finance, Stock Market.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9683

202 841-9324

dkass@umd.edu

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Michael D. Kimbrough

Assoc Prof

Accounting

Expertise Key Words:
Corporate financial reporting, with particular emphases on firms' voluntary disclosure practices and on accounting for intangible investment.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8522

mkimbrou@umd.edu

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Elinda F. Kiss

Teaching Professor

Finance

Expertise Key Words:
Accounting; Economics; Careers; Futures Options; Investing, Mergers & Acquisitions; Personal Finance; Investing; Deregulation; Securities Regulation; Risk Management; Securities; Banking; Bonds; Credit; Federal Reserve; Resolution Trust Corporation; Interest Rate Derivatives;

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7538

215-938-8860

215-962-9071

ekiss@umd.edu
EFKiss@aol.com

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Gerrit J. Knaap

Prof, Prof & Dir, Prof & Act Assoc Dean

Center for Smart Growth Research & Education

Expertise Key Words:

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6083

gknaap@umd.edu

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Douglas W. Lipton

Associate Professor

Agricultural & Resource Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Aquaculture, Chesapeake Bay, Fisheries, Seafood, Marine Recreation, Non-Market Valuation, Economics, Marine Policy, Blue Crab, Oysters, Striped Bass

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1280

dlipton@umd.edu

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Sean D. Luechtefeld

Grad Asst III

Communication

Expertise Key Words:
Communication, politics, rhetoric, political culture, rhetoric of economics, poverty, entrepreneurship, populism, social movements, asset building

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8976

sdl@umd.edu
seanluechtefeld@gmail.com

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Peter G. Morici

Professor

Logistics, Business & Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Macroeconomics, International Economics And International Business, And Government Regulation; Steel; Autos; Telecommunications; Airlines; Manufacturing; Retailing; Financial And Foreign Exchange Markets; Import And Export Issues

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2136

703-549-4338

pmorici@umd.edu

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Marc L. Nerlove

Prof

Agricultural & Resource Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Agricultural and Resource Economics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1388

mnerlove@umd.edu

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Charles E. Olson

Prof Of Practice

Logistics, Business & Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Cost of capital to public utilities, Public utility regulation, Energy economics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8666

colson@umd.edu

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Joe A. Oppenheimer

Prof

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
Citizens and their democracies; The chaotic behavior of individuals in basic prisoner dilemma experiments; Rational choice theory explanations of politics.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4113

joppenhe@umd.edu

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Erkut Y. Ozbay

Asst Prof

Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Microeconomics, Game Theory, Experimental Economics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3481

ozbay@umd.edu

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Margaret M. Pearson

Professor

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
China; Chinese Domestic Politics and foreign policy; East Asian politics, and comparative politics. China and the World Trade Organization - the WTO.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0423

mpearson@umd.edu

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Yoram Peri

Director of The Gildenhorn Institute & Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies

Meyerhoff Program & Center for Jewish Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Israel, Middle East; Foreign and International Relations, Economics - the Economy and Trade. Communications; Military Relations

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9413

yperi@umd.edu

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Peter H. Reuter

Prof

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Alterative Drug Crime Control, Organized Crime Control, Public Policy

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6367

preuter@umd.edu

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Rachelle Sampson

Asst Prof, Adv Consul

Logistics, Business & Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Strategic alliances and the organization of corporate R&D.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7658

sampsonr@umd.edu

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Thomas C. Schelling

Dist Univ Prof

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Schelling won 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in game theory. He has published highly influential works in a many areas including nuclear proliferation & arms control, terrorism, organized crime, energy & environmental policy, climate change, and racial segregation. CONTACT:301-405-4621

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3494

tschelli@umd.edu

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Robert M. Schwab

Professor

Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Public economics with an emphasis on taxation and public education.

Expertise Credentials:
Robert Schwab, Professor, received his BA from Grinnell College and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University. His primary field of research is public economics with an emphasis on taxation and public education. He was the Associate Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences from 2004 until 2009.

Web Site(s):
Department of Economics Faculty Page

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3609

schwab@umd.edu

Address:
2141M Tydings Hall
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
Ph.D., Economics, Johns Hopkins University


 
John Shea

Assoc Prof

Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Developments in the U.S. macroeconomy (changes in unemployment, GDP, inflation, interest rates, asset prices) and in government policies (fiscal and monetary) designed to affect the macroeconomy.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3491

jshea1@umd.edu
shea@econ.umd.edu

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David B. Sicilia

Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Business history; economic history; corporate history; history of technology; regulation; Federal Reserve; marketing and consumer culture; U.S. history in the 20th century; Alan Greenspan.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7778

410 465 9659

dsicilia@umd.edu

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Robert L. Tjaden Jr.

Extension Specialist & Professor, Environmental/Natural Resource Management & Policy

Environmental Science & Technology

Expertise Key Words:
Forest Management,
Wildlife Management,
Forest Taxation & Estate Planning,
Riparian Buffers,
Soil & Water Conservation,
Urban Forestry

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

410-827-8056
301-405-1179

rtjaden@umd.edu

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Charles A. Towe

Asst Prof

Agricultural & Resource Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Land Economics, Experimental Economics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7502

ctowe@umd.edu

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Douglas W. Tregoning

Retired Principal Agent

UME-Montgomery

Expertise Key Words:
Grain Marketing; Agronomic Crops; Pasture and Hay Management; Deer Management; horses; toxic plants and pasture establishment

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 590 2809

dwt@umd.edu

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Jeffrey F. Werling

Executive Director

Inforum Forecasting/Department of Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Economic forecasting (Macroeconomic accounting and modeling); Input-output accounts and modeling; International finance and trade; Economics of developing nations; U.S. Industrial Structure; Manufacturing operations;

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4607

jwerling@umd.edu

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Russell R. Wermers

Associate Professor

Finance

Expertise Key Words:
Mutual Funds; Pension Funds; Stock Market Investing; Security Portfolio Performance Measurement; Institutional Manager Investing Behavior; Investing; Mutual Funds; Personal Finance; Securities; Stocks; Investment Management; Portfolio Performance Evaluation; Stock Markets; Bonds; Petroleum; Gas

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0572

240 994 1200

wermers@umd.edu

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Yue M. Zhou

Asst Prof

Logistics, Business & Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
theory of the firm, firm scope, coordination costs, organization structure, complexity, global strategy, multinational firms

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5256

ymzhou@rhsmith.umd.edu

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