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Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
	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@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 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@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@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@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@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@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 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@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 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@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@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@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 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@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@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@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@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 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 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-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@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@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@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@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