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Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
	Rabah Amir rabah-amir@uiowa.edu Office: W282 PBB Phone: 319-335-1230 Professor and Director, PhD Program in Economics Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow Academic History: - PhD in Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1985 - BS in Systems Engineering, University of Illinois, 1980 Expertise: Game Theory, Industrial Economics, Microeconomic Theory

	Antonio Galvao antonio-galvao@uiowa.edu Office: -- Phone: -- Assistant Professor - on leave Fall 2011-Spring 2013 Academic History: - PhD in Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2009 - MS in Statistics, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 2007 - MA in Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation, 2003 - BA in Economics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, 2001 Expertise: Applied Econometrics, Econometric Theory

	Martin Gervais martin-gervais@uiowa.edu Office: W384 PBB Phone: 319-335-2087 Associate Professor Leonard A. Hadley Research Fellow Academic History: - PhD in Economics, The University of Western Ontario, 1999 - MA in Economics, The University of Western Ontario, 1995 - MBA, Universite Laval, 1993 - BA in Accounting, Universite Laval, 1991 Expertise: Housing Economics, Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Public Finance

	M. Beth Ingram beth-ingram@uiowa.edu Office: 111 JH Phone: 319-335-3565 Professor and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education Henry B. Tippie Research 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: 319-335-0841 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

	Kyungmin Kim kyungmin-kim@uiowa.edu Office: W382 PBB Phone: 319-335-0982 Assistant Professor Academic History: - PhD in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2009 - BA in Economics, Seoul National University, Korea, 2004 Expertise: Applied Economic Theory, Game Theory

	Dan Kovenock dan-kovenock@uiowa.edu Office: -- Phone: -- Professor J. Edward Lundy Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science - on leave Fall 2011-Spring 2013 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: 319-335-0854 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: 319-335-0850 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

	Raymond Riezman raymond-riezman@uiowa.edu Office: W360 PBB Phone: 319-335-0832 Professor C. Woody Thompson 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

	Alice Schoonbroodt alice-schoonbroodt@uiowa.edu Office: W334 PBB Phone: 319-335-0915 Assistant Professor Academic History: - PhD in Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2006 - MA in Economics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2000 - BA in Economics, Universite Catholique de Louvain, LLN, Belgium, 1999 Expertise: Macroeconomics, Demographic Economics, Family Economics, Growth & Development

	John Solow john-solow@uiowa.edu Office: W210 PBB Phone: 319-335-0845 Professor, Departmental Executive Officer, and Director, Business Honors Program Justice International Business Research 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

	Nicholas Yannelis nicholas-yannelis@uiowa.edu Office: W380 PBB Phone: 319-335-2290 Professor Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Economics Academic History: - PhD in Economics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1983 - MA, University of Rochester, 1979 - MA, London School of Economics, 1977 - BA, Athens School of Economics, 1976

	Nicolas Ziebarth nicolas-ziebarth@uiowa.edu Office: W344 PBB Phone: 319-335-3810 Assistant Professor Academic History: - PhD in Economics, Northwestern University, 2012 - MA in Economics, Norhwestern University, 2007 - BA Honors in Economics, Mathematics, and Philosophy, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2005

Lecturers
	Stacey Brook stacey-brook@uiowa.edu Office: W348 PBB Phone: 319-335-1010 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: S322 PBB Phone: 319-335-0925 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: 319-335-0937 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
	Doru Cojoc doru-cojoc@uiowa.edu Office: W370 PBB Phone: 319-384-1980 Visiting Assistant Professor Academic History: - PhD in Economics, Clemson University, 2004 - BSc in Economics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, 1997 Expertise: Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Microeconomics, Political Economy

	A'amer Farooqi aamer-farooqi@uiowa.edu Office: W210 PBB Phone: 319-335-0829 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, Environmental issues and economic development, International trade and finance, Macro-economic theory and policy

	Sarah Frank sarah-frank@uiowa.edu Office: S362 PBB Phone: 319-335-0504 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Consortium of Universities for International Studies (CUIS) Academic History: - PhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 2009 - BA in Economics, Wellesley College, 1999

	John Fuller john-w-fuller@uiowa.edu Office: 340 JH Phone: 319-335-0038 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

	Zhengyuan Gao gao-zhengyuan@uiowa.edu Office: S362 PBB Phone: 319-335-0504 Academic History: - PhD in Econometrics, University of Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute, 2012 - MSc in Economics and Econometrics, University of Southampton, 2005 - BSc in Computational Mathematics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2004

	Hirokazu Ishise hirokazu-ishise@uiowa.edu Office: W336 PBB Phone: 319-384-1911 Visiting Assistant Professor Academic History: - PhD in Economics, Boston University, 2010 - MA in Economics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 - BA in Social Welfare, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003

	Mary Knudson mary-knudson@uiowa.edu Office: S383 PBB Phone: 319-335-0988 Adjunct Assistant Professor Academic History: - PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1988 - MS in Plant Breeding-Plant Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983 - BS in Agronomy, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1981

	Donald Szeszycki donald-szeszycki@uiowa.edu Office: 315A CALH Phone: 319-335-1543 Associate Vice President and Adjunct Lecturer Academic History: - MA in Economics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, 1980 - BA in Economics, Loras College, 1978 Expertise: Budgeting, Decision support system development, Information management, Operational analyses, Pricing analyses, Space planning, Strategic planning

	Hennadige Thenuwara hennadige-thenuwara@uiowa.edu Office: S383 PBB Phone: 319-335-0988 Adjunct Lecturer Academic History: - PhD in Economics, The University of Iowa, 1997 - MA in Econometrics, University of Manchester, UK, 1988 - MSc in Applied Statistics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1984 - BSc in Physics, Pure Mathematics, and Industrial Management, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 1980

	Armando Zavaleta armando-zavaleta@uiowa.edu Office: W284 PBB Phone: 319-335-1810 Visiting Assistant Professor Academic History: - PhD in Economics, University of Calgary, 2012 - MA in Economics, El Colegio de Mexico, 2001 - BA in Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1996 Expertise: Environmental Economics, Political Economy, Game Theory, Energy Economics