The following is a list of graduate faculty and their areas of specialization:
Jean M. Abraham
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health. PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001. Health economics and policy; issues related to household behavior with respect to health insurance and medical care; economics of health insurance benefit design; and competition in hospital markets.
Jeffrey Apland
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, Purdue University, 1979. Production economics; managerial economics; mathematical programming.
Ragui Asaad
Professor of Planning and Public Affairs and Faculty Coordinator, International Fellows Program, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. PhD, Cornell University, 1991. Major - planning and systems analysis; Minor - development economics and planning.
Avner Ben-Ner
Professor, Industrial Relations Center. PhD, Economics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1981. Structure (including human resource practices), behavior and performance in organizations; behavioral economics; preferences and determinants of individual behavior; nonprofit organizations; employee ownership; economic systems and institutions.
John W. Budd
Professor, Industrial Relations Center. PhD, Princeton University, 1991. Industrial relations; labor policy; labor economics.
Brian L. Buhr
Professor and Department Head, Department of Applied Economics and E. Fred Koller Chair in Agricultural Management Information Systems, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, Iowa State University, 1992. Price analysis; marketing; production; policy.
Caroline Carlin
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Minnesota, 2006. Health care and employment-based health insurance; discrete choice methods.
Jon B. Christianson
Professor and James A Hamilton Chair in Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health. PhD, Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974. Health economics; health insurance.
Jay S. Coggins
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Minnesota, 1989. Resource and environmental economics; political economy and policy analysis; applied microeconomics.
Elizabeth Davis
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Michigan, 1988. Labor economics; poverty and welfare reform; rural labor markets.
Bryan Dowd
Professor, Health Pollicy and Management. Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania, 1982. Health economics, health policy, incuding markets for public and private health care services, and the application of econometric methods to health research problems.
K. William Easter
Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, Michigan State University, 1966. Natural resource and environmental economics; water markets, and water resource policy; project analysis and B/C analysis.
Roger Feldman
Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance, School of Public Health. PhD, University of Rochester, 1976. Health economics.
Jeremiah E. Fruin
Associate Professor and Extension Economist, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1971. Agricultural transportation and logistics systems; rural roads and transportation; bulk commodity flows; management of solid waste streams and recycling logistics systems.
William C. Gartner
Professor and Extension Educator, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, Michigan State University, 1981. Tourism development - domestic and international; image formation; seasonal homes.
Paul Glewwe
Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, Stanford University, 1985. Economic development; empirical microeconomics; applied econometrics; economics of education; applied welfare economics.
Maria Hanratty
Associate Professor, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. PhD, Harvard University 1991. Labor economics; economics of poverty; social welfare programs.
Frances R. Homans
Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of California, Davis, 1993. Natural resource and environmental economics; fisheries; econometrics.
Qiuqiong Huang
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of California, Davis, 2006. Environmental and natural resource economics; development economics; applied econometrics; economics of water resources.
Terrance M. Hurley
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, Iowa State University, 1995. Agricultural production; agricultural policy; natural resource and environmental economics.
Laura TJ Kalambokidis
Associate Professor and Extension Economist, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Michigan, 1992. Community and regional development; public finance.
Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management. Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley, 2004. Health insurance benefit design, health care regulations and markets.
Robert P. King
Professor. PhD, Michigan State University, 1979. Management information systems; decision theory; production economics; agribusiness management.
Jean D. Kinsey
Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Co-Director of The Food Industry Center. PhD, University of California, Davis 1976. Consumer and household economics; food safety; food consumption, demand, and marketing; human capital; economic value of time.
Morris M. Kleiner
Professor and AFL-CIO Chair in Labor Policy, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. PhD, University of Illinois, 1974. Labor economics; personnel economics; public policies on work and pay.
Robert T. Kudrle
Professor, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. PhD, Harvard University, 1974. Industrial organization; international trade and investment.
William F. Lazarus
Professor and Extension Economist, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Illinois, 1981. Crop and livestock production economics and management; livestock industry structural change; farm business and financial management.
Deborah Levison
Associate Professor, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. PhD, University of Michigan, 1991. Applied microeconomics; labor markets in developing countries; child labor; demography.
David Levinson
RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation, Department of Civil Engineering, Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley, 1998. Transportation economics, transportation and land use, travel behavior, network growth, game theory, agent-based models.
Donald J. Liu
Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Minnesota, 1985. Marketing and price analysis; futures and options markets; international trade; industrial organization.
Colleen Manchester
Assistant Professor, Industrial Relations Center. Ph.D, Stanford University, 2007. Labor economics, personnel economics, public finance, econometrics, applied microeconomics, and public policy.
Ann Markusen
Professor of Planning and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. PhD, Michigan State University, 1974. Regional economics; industrial organization; urban and regional planning.
Gerard J. McCullough
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. Industrial organization; economics of transportation; applied econometrics.
Hamid Mohtadi
Visiting Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin. PhD, University of Michigan, 1982. Growth and development; trade; food safety and security, supply chains; public economics; political economy.
Samuel Myers
Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976. Policy analysis.
Elton Mykerezi
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, Ph.D, Virginia Tech, 2007. Current research focuses on education and wellbeing of rural minorities, economics of higher education, the causes of poverty and food insecurity, and the role of public assistance in enhancing household wellbeing.
John A. Nyman
Professor, School of Public Health. PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984. Health insurance theory; long-term care policy; cost-effectiveness analysis; gambling theory; physician behavior.
Kent D. Olson
Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, Iowa State University, 1979. Farm and financial management; production economics; farm size and structure of agriculture; sustainable agriculture.
Philip G. Pardey
Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Minnesota, 1986. Science and technology policy; economics of technical change and intellectual property rights; international economic development.
Claudia D. Parliament
Professor and Extension Economist, Department of Applied Economics and Director of Minnesota Council on Economic Education. PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1984. Economic education; cooperatives; rural development; small business management.
Glenn D. Pederson
Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, Michigan State University, 1979. Financial management; financial economics; agricultural finance institutions; agricultural development.
Stephen Polasky
Fesler Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Michigan, 1986. Environmental and resource economics; ecology and economics; industrial organization.
Joseph A. Ritter
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, economics, University of Michigan, 1987. Labor economics; macroeconomics.
Terry L. Roe
Professor, Department of Applied Economics, Director of the Center for Political Economy and Co-Director of the Economic Development Center. PhD, Purdue University, 1969. Economic development; trade; political economy; policy and price analysis.
C. Ford Runge
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy. PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1981. Farm and environmental policy; general economic policy; Minnesota farm policy situation; common property resources.
Benjamin H. Senauer
Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Co-Director of The Food Industry Center. PhD, Stanford University, 1975. Consumption economics; demand analysis; food economics; food policy in developing countries.
Pamela Smith
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992. International trade; growth and spillovers; economic geography; international intellectual property rights.
Rodney B. Smith
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Maryland, 1992. Policy and price analysis; principal-agent problems; resource economics; industrial organization.
Thomas F. Stinson
Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Minnesota State Economist. PhD, University of Minnesota, 1973. Minnesota and federal tax system; macroeconomic policy; industrial development; public expenditure analysis.
Steven J. Taff
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1985. Agricultural, resource, and environmental policy; land economics.
Judy Temple
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. PhD, Michigan State University, 1990. Public economics; economics of education; policy evaluation; state and local finance.
Robert Town
Associate Professor, School of Public Health. PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. Health economics; industrial organization; applied econometrics.
Clarissa A. Yeap
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Chicago, 2005. Industrial organization; applied microeconomics.
Chengyan Yue
Assistant Professor, Todd and Barbara Bachman Endowed Chair in Horticultural Science. PhD, Iowa State University, 2006. Horticultural marketing; applied microeconomics; international trade.
Naomi Zeitouni
Research Associate, Department of Applied Economics. PhD, University of Rhode Island, 1991. Environmental economics; water resource management.
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