Finance

Faculty

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty


John Geweke John Geweke     john-geweke@uiowa.edu
Office: (on leave)     Phone: --
Professor, Economics and Statistics
Harlan E. McGregor Chair in Economic Theory

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Minnesota, 1975
  • - BS in Social Science, Michigan State University, 1970
Expertise: Bayesian econometrics, Earnings dynamics, Econometric theory, Financial economics, Latent variable models, Time series analysis
Srihari Govindan Srihari Govindan     srihari-govindan@uiowa.edu
Office: W384 PBB    Phone: 335-2087
Professor and Director, PhD Program in Economics
Lloyd J. and Thelma W. Palmer Research Fellow

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1993
  • - BComm, Loyola College, University of Madras, 1988
Expertise: Game Theory, Mathematical Economics
M. Ingram M. Ingram     beth-ingram@uiowa.edu
Office: 111 JH    Phone: 335-3565
Professor and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
C. Woody Thompson Professor of Economics

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Minnesota, 1986
  • - BS in Economics and Mathematics, The University of Iowa, 1981
Expertise: Bayesian approaches to macroeconomic estimation, Business cycle issues, Econometrics, Estimation and analysis of nonlinear rational expectations models, Macroeconomics
Ayca Kaya Ayca Kaya     ayca-kaya@uiowa.edu
Office: W378 PBB    Phone: 335-0841
Assistant Professor
Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economic Analysis and Policy, Stanford University, 2005
  • - MA in Economics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2000
  • - BA in Economics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1998
Expertise: Applied game theory, Microeconomic Theory
Dan Kovenock Dan Kovenock     dan-kovenock@uiowa.edu
Office: W284 PBB    Phone: 335-1810
Professor
Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1983
  • - BSc in Mathematics and Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1977
Expertise: Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy, Public Economics
Forrest Nelson Forrest Nelson     forrest-nelson@uiowa.edu
Office: W386 PBB    Phone: 335-0854
Professor
Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Rochester, 1975
  • - MS in Economics, University of Rochester, 1974
  • - BS in Agricultural Economics, Colorado State University, 1968
Expertise: Prediction Markets, Qualitative and Limited Dependent Variables
George Neumann George Neumann     george-neumann@uiowa.edu
Office: W388 PBB    Phone: 335-0850
Professor
George Daly Research Professor of Economics

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, Northwestern University, 1974
  • - MA in Economics, Northwestern University, 1969
  • - BA in Economics, Le Moyne College, 1968
Expertise: Economics of Union Activity, Influenza Models, Stochastic Models of Labor Markets, Using Markets to Aggregate Information with Small Numbers of Traders
Elena Pastorino Elena Pastorino     elena-pastorino@uiowa.edu
Office: W332 PBB    Phone: 335-0887
Assistant Professor
Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, 2000
  • - BA in Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, 1998
Expertise: Contract Theory, Empirical Microeconomics, Labor Economics
B. Ravikumar B. Ravikumar     ravikumar@uiowa.edu
Office: W344 PBB    Phone: 335-3810
Professor
Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Economics

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, The University of Iowa, 1989
  • - MS in Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1985
  • - MS in Industrial Engineering, Nat'l Inst. for Training in Industrial Engineering, 1983
  • - BE in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India, 1981
  • - BS in Physics, University of Bombay, India, 1978
Expertise: Economic development, Macroeconomics, Public finance
Raymond Riezman Raymond Riezman     raymond-riezman@uiowa.edu
Office: W360 PBB    Phone: 335-0832
Professor
Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Economics

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Minnesota, 1977
  • - BA in Economics, Washington University-St. Louis, 1969
Expertise: International trade, Microeconomics, Political economy
N. Savin N. Savin     gene-savin@uiowa.edu
Office: W374 PBB    Phone: 335-0855
Professor
Michael Sandler Research Fellow

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1969
  • - MA in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1960
  • - BA in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1956
Expertise: Econometric theory, Economic theory, Finite sample theory, Hypothesis testing
John Solow John Solow     john-solow@uiowa.edu
Office: W336 PBB    Phone: 335-0845
Associate Professor, Departmental Executive Officer, and Director, Business Honors Program
Justice International Business Fellow

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, Stanford University, 1983
  • - MA in Economics, Stanford University, 1981
  • - BA in Economics, Yale University, 1976
Expertise: Antitrust, Industrial Organization, Law and Economics, Sports Economics
Guillaume Vandenbroucke Guillaume Vandenbroucke     guillaume-vandenbroucke@uiowa.edu
Office: W370 PBB    Phone: 384-1980
Assistant Professor
Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Rochester, 2004
  • - MA in Economics, University of Rochester, 2001
Expertise: Macroeconomics
Gustavo Ventura Gustavo Ventura     gustavo-ventura@uiowa.edu
Office: W358 PBB    Phone: 335-0842
Associate Professor
Dore Faculty Research Fellow

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Illinois, 1997
  • - MS in Economics, University of Illinois, 1994
  • - MA in Economics, Centro de Estudios Macroeconomicos de Argentina, 1990
Expertise: Development, Inequality, Macroeconomics, Taxation
Charles Whiteman Charles Whiteman     whiteman@uiowa.edu
Office: C120 PBB    Phone: 335-0865
Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Henry B. Tippie College of Business, Director, Economic Research Institute & Professor, Economics
Leonard A. Hadley Chair in Leadership

Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Minnesota, 1981
  • - BA Honors in Economics, University of Kansas, 1975
Expertise: Bayesian Econometrics, Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory and Financial Economics, Rational Expectations, Time Series Analysis and Macroeconomic Forecasting
Yuzhe Zhang Yuzhe Zhang     yuzhe-zhang@uiowa.edu
Office: W380 PBB    Phone: 335-2290
Assistant Professor
Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2006
  • - BS in Economics, Wuhan University, 2000
  • - BS in Mathematics, Wuhan University, 2000
Expertise: Mechanism Design, Macroeconomics

Lecturers


Stacey Brook Stacey Brook     stacey-brook@uiowa.edu
Office: W348 PBB    Phone: 335-1010
Lecturer
Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, Colorado State University, 1995
  • - MA in Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1991
  • - BBA in Economics and Business Administration, Eastern New Mexico University, 1989
Expertise: Sports Economics
Jennifer Fuhrman Jennifer Fuhrman     jennifer-fuhrman@uiowa.edu
Office: S320 PBB    Phone: 335-0925
Lecturer
Academic History:
  • - MA in Economics, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1998
  • - BA in International Studies, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1997
Blake Whitten Blake Whitten     blake-whitten@uiowa.edu
Office: S306 PBB    Phone: 335-0937
Lecturer
Academic History:
  • - PhD in Statistics, Florida State University, 2001
  • - MS in Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1992
  • - MS in Mathematics, Northern Arizona University, 1985
  • - BS in Mathematics and Business Economics, Northern Arizona University, 1983
Expertise: EM algorithm, Markov random fields, MCMC simulation, Meta-analysis, Missing-data problems, Spatial and space-time statistics, Statistical computing

Adjunct and Visiting Faculty


A'amer Farooqi A'amer Farooqi     aamer-farooqi@uiowa.edu
Office: W210 PBB    Phone: 335-0829
Adjunct Associate Professor
Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1988
  • - MA in Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1987
  • - MA in Journalism, Ohio State University, 1977
  • - BA in Political Science, Denison University, 1976
Expertise: Economics of developing nations, Economies of East Asia, Environmental issues and economic development, International trade and finance, Macro-economic theory and policy
Imran Farooqi Imran Farooqi     imranf@mchsi.com
Office: S316 PBB    Phone: 335-3756
Adjunct Lecturer
Academic History:
  • - MS in Economics, University of Illinois, 1984
  • - BA in Economics, Denison University, 1981
Expertise: History of Economic Thought, Money and Banking, Principles of Micro and Macro Economics, Statistics and Econometrics
John Fuller John Fuller     john-w-fuller@uiowa.edu
Office: 340 JH    Phone: 335-0038
Professor, Urban and Regional Planning
Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, Washington State University, 1968
  • - AB in Economics, San Diego State University, 1962
Expertise: Finance and Regulation of Transport Sector, Transport Policy, Planning, and Analysis
Joel Horowitz Joel Horowitz     joel-horowitz@uiowa.edu
Office: W338 PBB    Phone: 335-1811
Visiting Fellow
Academic History:
  • - PhD in Physics, Cornell University, 1967
  • - BS in Physics, Stanford University, 1962
Expertise: Bootstrap methods, Discrete choice analysis, Econometric theory, Inference with missing and incomplete data, Semiparametric estimation
Heath Spong Heath Spong     heath-spong@uiowa.edu
Office: W330 PBB    Phone: 335-0982
Visiting Assistant Professor
Academic History:
  • - PhD, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2005
  • - MA in Economics (honors), Monash University, 2001
  • - in Graduate Student Research Fellow, New York University, 2001
  • - BA Honors in Economics, Monash University, 1999
Expertise: History and Philosophy of Economics, Public Policy and Economics
Roman Sustek Roman Sustek     roman-sustek@uiowa.edu
Office: S362 PBB    Phone: 335-0504
Visiting Assistant Professor
Academic History:
  • - PhD in Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
  • - MSc in Financial Economics, University of Essex, 1998
  • - MA in Transition Economics, Central European University, 1997
  • - BA, Economics and Business Studies, 1995
Expertise: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Macro-Finance
Donald Szeszycki Donald Szeszycki     donald-szeszycki@uiowa.edu
Office: 111 JH    Phone: 335-1543
Assistant Provost and Adjunct Lecturer
Academic History:
  • - MA in Economics, Northern Illinois University, 1980
  • - BA in Economics, Loras College, 1978
Expertise: Decision support analytics, Information management, Resource allocation and budget models, Strategic and operational planning metrics

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